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

Advice re changing substrate

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10 Aug 2014 20:49 - 10 Aug 2014 23:09 #1 by Clopsy (Clopsy)

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Hi All,
I have a plan in mind about how I will about changing my substate to something more suitable for plants.
I am hoping some of you will be able to give me some feedback as to whether it will work or not... or any other steps I should consider. I am relatively new to all of this an had no idea what I was doing when I started.. hence trying to rectify things now. The plants I have are growing ok but could be much better I'm sure with the right substrate.

My current set up is as follows:
Tank: 350l Juwel Trigon
Substrate: between 1-4 cm of 2-3m Sand
Filter: JBL Cristalprofi 1500l
Pressurised C02 @ 2bps
Ferts: EasyCarbo & EasyLife
Lights: T5 2x24 and 2x45Watt

I now have a spare 80l tank that a friend has given me and my plan is to take all of the fish from my current tank and transfer them into the 80l for a few days while I work on removing the existing sand from my current tank and putting in Aquabasis plus and JBL Madano as new substrate. I will then transfer back the fish to my 350l. I will take out the existing plants and leave in a bucket of tank water while I am working and replant when the new substrate is in place.

My questions are..
Because I will be using water from an existing tank (cycled etc) will my fish survive ok in the 80l tank ?

Should I set this tank up with no fish and leave it run for a week or two like a new tank or can I just put the fish in straightaway ?

Once I have the Aqua Basis plus and Mandano in the new tank will I have to wait for a while before I put back the fish or will the water parameters (Amonia etc) be unstable while the new substrate etc settles.

Any ideas how much of the Auqabasis and Mandano I will need ? I'm pretty mathemactically challenged but by my estimation 10l of Aquabasis and 15l of the mandano should be sufficient ?

I don't really know the names of the plants I have so I've posted a pic below of my current set up.

I'd appreciate any feedback before I dive into this.. I haven't actually purchased anything yet so if there's another type of substrate I could/should use just let me know.

Thanks in advance..

Last edit: 10 Aug 2014 23:09 by JohnH (John).

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