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Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)

Hi,

John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.

I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.

With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.

I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.

If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.

I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.

I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.

Thank you
Darragh Sherwin

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20 Sep 2013 10:49 #1 by CrustyCrab (Peter Biddulph)
Native Marine Aquarium
Eheim. Karat 200. 200x60x60 740 liters
Lighting 4x Aquabeam 600. 2x t5 38w light tubes
Filtration 2 x Eheim 2080. 2 x Tunze 6055 with Controller 7092
Red Sea Prizm Hang on Skimmer
Replacing with Tunze
No heating.

West Africian Tank
Trigon 350 Planted
Juwel Filter Removed.
Lighting 2x Aquabeam 500 + original light bars
Filtration Eheim 2073 with surface skimmer
Heating Eheim 200
Livestock Pelvicachromis taeniatus

80L Cube - Empty

Mbuna Tank
Eheim Karat 200
1x Eheim 2080 1x Eheim 2180
Lighting t5 x 8 (4x double units) Standard with tank.
Tank Empty
To be stocked with
pseudotropheus polit Lions cove F1

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20 Sep 2013 10:52 #2 by Ski (Alan McGee)
Nice big tanks Crusty!

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20 Sep 2013 11:32 #3 by paulv (paul vickers)
Love to see pics of your native marine tank if you could put up a few.

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20 Sep 2013 12:04 - 20 Sep 2013 17:48 #4 by CrustyCrab (Peter Biddulph)
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Last edit: 20 Sep 2013 17:48 by JohnH (John). Reason: Photobucket - pah!!! kept duplicating one image and losing another!!!

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20 Sep 2013 13:20 #5 by Jasonb (Jason Browne)
That's a lovely native marine setup. I do a fair bit of Scuba Diving and your tank looks spot on, just like what I'd see under water... :)

J.

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21 Sep 2013 09:20 #6 by paulv (paul vickers)
Your native tanks reminds me of paddling tru rock pools as a child

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21 Sep 2013 11:33 #7 by igmillichip (ian millichip)
I must set-up a native marine tank one day just to give me an excuse to do more walking over rock pools.
There are some super species available.

ian

Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.

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21 Sep 2013 23:35 #8 by Finn86 (Paul Finnegan)
Very very nice tank Crusty, someday I would love to venture down the marine route :)

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15 Feb 2014 04:23 #9 by killiman (Jon Lobello)
How about a pic of your pelvicachromis taeniatus. I just have regular old Kribs myself and they are really light shy, but will come out from their "hidie hole " when the overhead light is out. I'm using a four foot double tube florescent fixture with two T8 verilus bulbs running temp of 6500k.
I've put a folded piece of news paper directly above the flower pot shards (on top of the tank) where the fish hang out during the "day" to cut down on the light hitting their area and it seems to help some. I have no dither fish in the tank and intend to use it as a "grow out" tank for young killifish if the Kribs aren't too aggressive. I had this pair of kribs for a years now and they have not spawned (to my great disappointment).

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