Think Fish Keepers Daily News. [2016-2019]

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #440 on: October 11, 2016, 08:09:00 PM »
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Well, I guess it did have the word "fun" in the name.  ;)

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #441 on: October 14, 2016, 06:05:22 PM »
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I've just caught the fish playing a game of "What time is it now, Mr Wolf?" Ordinarily, one harlequin sits in a particular location, and anyone who dares swim into that territory gets chased away. I got distracted by noticing that all tank inhabitants were behind him, nudging one another forward, then one female tetra seemed to take a leap of faith and went darting forward, only to be met by him spinning 180' round to face her head on and then be chased around the inside of the tank as though she'd committed the most heinous of crimes. The other fish all seemed to freeze in their tracks, out of shock.

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #442 on: October 14, 2016, 09:56:16 PM »
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Wow, I don't think my harlequins get the chance to play bossy boots in my tank with the rams and their territorial ways and post feeding chasing sessions...

I've had a shrimp invasion tonight, they've been doing a bit of breeding clearly and now their taking risks with the rams as their food supply in their hideaway under the red moor wood must be getting low...

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #443 on: November 05, 2016, 06:34:49 PM »
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Okay, the fish have surprised me again, we have just had a teen pregnancy in the Cichlid tank!
During the week I noticed the two Firemouth Cichlids were showing off to each other, but I've only had the tank running 6 weeks and all the fish were bought as small juveniles, so I just thought 'Oh good a pair'. They still are only about 7cm, which is about half adult size and not showing any adult colouration or sexual dimorphism but clearly that's not important as we now have 150 eggs and they have taken to caring for them in a big way.
They have established a 50cm³ 'no fly zone' or should it be 'enforced their Common fisheries policy territorial waters' so everybody else is in the other 2/3rds of the tank :) They are fantastically well organised in their guard and cleaning duties. The instant one returns to the eggs the other swims off to patrol the boarders or work on a large excavation in the sand under a rock, I'm guessing this is for the fry.
I have no idea if the eggs are fertile yet and I doubt if the fry will survive once they are free swimming as I'm fairly sure everybody else is partial to live food :( but they are fascinating to watch.

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« Reply #444 on: November 05, 2016, 07:04:42 PM »
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All part of the joys of fishkeeping  ;D

Look for opaque eggs, those are the infertile ones. The parents should eat these, though it does sometimes take cichlids a few attempts to get it right.

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #445 on: November 05, 2016, 07:21:09 PM »
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@Sue Yes they are doing that so I am hopeful.
I'm not judging the Firemouths of course, but I will be sitting the others down and giving the others 'the talk' about safe sex and making sure they find the right fish.

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #446 on: November 06, 2016, 10:48:54 AM »
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The whole description of the scenario has made me chuckle.
As Sue said, it's all part of the joys of fishkeeping.
Fish behaviour is always fascinating to watch, whether or not it is expected/encouraged/discouraged.  :)

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #447 on: November 06, 2016, 01:43:07 PM »
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We have wrigglers ! The parents are now picking them off the wall and transporting them to one or the excavations Both have changed colour overnight and the territorial water have moved out to the 200mile limit (must have Icelandic genes in them)

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« Reply #448 on: November 06, 2016, 02:43:18 PM »
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Congratulations.  :cheers:
That sounds so cute - the parenting bit rather than the territorial limits.
I hope that your little wrigglers and the new parents do well, and that the rest of your fishies don't have too much trouble keeping out of the way.

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« Reply #449 on: November 06, 2016, 04:45:13 PM »
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Very exciting indeed, @Andy the minion - keep us fully posted on progress, please.

I went to my LFS this morning - and, this time, fell completely head-over-heels for these http://www.killi.co.uk/speciesProfile/Nothobranchius/guentheri/ . There's no option now - I am absolutely going to have to resume a mega clearout of paperwork, etc, in order to free up some space for a second tank...

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #450 on: November 06, 2016, 05:42:50 PM »
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Oh, very nice @fcmf
With enough determination there is always a way to make space for a tank.  ;D

I was quite taken when these little fellas appeared at the independant LFS
http://www.killi.co.uk/speciesProfile/Fundulopanchax/sjoestedti/
Scroll to the bottom left picture and those are the ones they had.
Goofy and adorable.

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #451 on: November 08, 2016, 07:07:30 PM »
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Does anyone know what has happened to the Seriously Fish site?
I just get a message to say that the domain has expired.

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #452 on: November 08, 2016, 07:23:20 PM »
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I've had error messages on and off for a long time. I just wait patiently for between a day and a week and it comes back. It is very frustrating when you want to look something up.

For example, see reply #11 here. It was two or three days before I was able to update this post.



Edit - I have just googled SF and seen the page about the domain having expired. Eeeek  :yikes:

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #453 on: November 08, 2016, 07:44:26 PM »
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The Firemouth fry are still developing and will be getting to the end of their egg sacks soon. Does anybody have a good suggestion for delivering food to them under a rock at the bottom of a 60cm tank?
Given the level of the parental care I wouldn't put it past them to gather and spit out food for them but I haven't seen any references to this behaviour.
Sucking up a solution of either brine shrimp or powered flake using a syringe with a long length of airline tube fitted is the only idea I have at the moment?

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #454 on: November 08, 2016, 07:45:40 PM »
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You could try a turkey baster.

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #455 on: November 08, 2016, 07:49:18 PM »
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@Sue my response to SF was much the same as yours.   :o :yikes:

@Andy the minion I think the turkey baster/pipette is a good idea. If feeding flake crush it really small, to a powder, mix with a small amount of tank water & use a pipette/baster to deliver to the approximate area. I'm sure they'll get some of it.

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« Reply #456 on: November 08, 2016, 07:54:23 PM »
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@Andy the minion  it's not a widely known fact, but taking pictures of your tank and sharing them on a forum helps to encourage fry to feed. Amazing, isn't it. Bet you didn't know that.

In reality I'm a bit grumpy because I went to MA yesterday to find out when my large tanks are going to be delivered and was told it was going to be another few weeks, so admiring other people's tanks is what is keeping me going at the moment. Especially as I had deliveries from both Aqua Essentials and Aquarium Gardens with plants for the new tanks.  :(  ::)  :-[

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Re: Think Fish Keepers Daily News.
« Reply #457 on: November 08, 2016, 08:37:22 PM »
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I am a member of another fishkeeping forum and I know one of the members on there writes articles for SF. So I started a thread on there asking is anyone knew anything. The chap in question has replied saying it has been off line recently for up to a week but the domain thing is new to him. He has only recently been revising the loach entries.
But the site owner has not been responding to emails and the chap on the other forum is worried, about both SF and its owner.

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« Reply #458 on: November 08, 2016, 08:40:30 PM »
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That is a bit worrying.
I hope that the owner is ok.

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« Reply #459 on: November 08, 2016, 10:41:42 PM »
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Does anyone know what has happened to the Seriously Fish site?
I just get a message to say that the domain has expired.
I've only ever once had an error message on that site, and I look at it at least several times per week. I've just tried it from Google Chrome and Internet Explorer and that's certainly a new message I've never seen before. This is indeed rather worrying about both the site and indeed its owner. Update: I see SF has a Facebook page https://en-gb.facebook.com/SeriouslyFish/ and it's possible to send a message to them which I'll do (although this is probably what the other guy has been doing too).




 


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