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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The pros are that they churn up your sand as they move through it reducing the chances of anaerobic bacteria blackspots, they can be amazing at clearing algae from plants, esp broad-leaved ones and they tend to disappear during the day. Mine only appear in the hour or so before the lights go out each evening and are mostly gone the rest of the day.
The cons are that populations can explode very quickly, esp if you overfeed your fish and the snails get to take advantage of that. And short of chemical intevention or binning your sand, they can be very hard to get rid of.
Personally, I love 'em. I have 2 tanks with them even though they appeared in the first tank without any desire on my part to have them. They must have come in on plants I bought or possibly in a bag with fish. Whether you want them or not is really a matter of personal taste. Just be warned; once you've got 'em, you've got 'em
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