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
Muriatic Acid (hydrochloric acid) in Ireland
That is quite odd that a rather old fashioned name is being used for hydrochloric acid though
ian
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Yeah that's exactly what I want to use it for, cleaning dead live rock.
I need to do a bleach bath first, then the HCL acid and then some baking soda to counter the acidity.
Seems to be the best way to clean rock!
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It would do quite a good job of getting rid of quite a bit of the live rock if used and leave you with plenty of carbon dioxide foaming away.
That is quite odd that a rather old fashioned name is being used for hydrochloric acid though
ian
It certainly will clean rock
I have a doctorate in science and I never heard of HCL being referred to as muriatic acid - you learn something new every day 
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lol
I guess its an american thing then... wouldnt surprise me...
Still nowhere to be found here in Ireland. Unless I buy a couple of tons
If you know someone working in a research lab, there's plenty of it there....
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It would do quite a good job of getting rid of quite a bit of the live rock if used and leave you with plenty of carbon dioxide foaming away.
That is quite odd that a rather old fashioned name is being used for hydrochloric acid though
ian
It certainly will clean rock
If you had been one of my chemistry students at university then you would have
To me, though, if I saw one of my students use that in their practical write-ups I'd instantly know that they had simply copied it from somewhere........spotting cheats was my speciality
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so it easy then. All I have to do is sign up for chemistry in college and wait for labtest day...
easy peasy
Now I wish I had friends
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So, I would often say make sure that you copy off someone who gets everything right as it is so difficult to spot copying that way.
Here's one example that I remember as being the sillyest.
I had 2 practical write-ups in front of me that had the same maths errors even to 3 or 4 decimal places on the chemical reactions......now that is sort of possible.
But when I found a sample of blue copper sulphate sellotaped to the page and labelled "we made black copper oxide" (pointing to the blue copper sulphate).....I thought, OK so you can make an error; and then when I saw the black copper oxide labelled as "blue copper sulphate" I thought...OK 2 errors.
BUT...when I found that the other person made the exact same error.....I said WAIT THERE !! (whoever had copied didn't even bother to notice the obvious error on the colours).
There you go.....loads of anecdotes from my days in the university labs.
ian
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