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
Katherine's new attempt for aquascaping :)
Desire for more tools
Here is the substrate - ADA New Amazonia. It's really cool, dark colour (black when gets water), nearly no dust when you put it into the dank in a dry form). It seems to be good decision:
Aquascaping or hoping doing it
in a simpler way: planting...
And now ther result of my hard work: BLACKWATERS BY CHANCE!!!
More pictures to follow!!
Here are some details of the tank:
Juwel Vision 260 l
Lighting: 3 x T8 38W
Heater: AquaEl Neoheater 200 W
Filtration: TetraTec EX1200
CO2 system will start working today.
Water: more than a hundred liters from the previous set up and tap water
Substrate: ADA New Amazonia - 3 bags of 9 l each (should have bought one bag more would be better - never trust the seller!!)
Plants (need time to grow up as in many respects I left only top part of them and planted):
1. Valisneria
2. Valisneria spiralis
3. Heterandrea zosterifolia
4. Mexican Oak lives
5. Apomogeton crispus
6. Apomogeton madagascariensis
7. Echinodorus ozelot red
8. Echinodorus ozelot green
9. Banana Lotos
10. Green lotos
11. Red lotos
12 Byxia
13. Marsilea
14. Cardamina lyrata
14. Green and red cryptocorynae
15. Pogestemon helferi
16. Anubias barteri
17. Anubias bar. 'nana pettit'
And still some plants waiting to find them a place
fish and other animals that will inhabit this tank soon:
1. Pseudomugil gertrude 12 pcs
2. Pygmea corry - 5 pcs
3. Hyphessobrycon Amandae - 26 pcs
4. Iriatherina werneri - 9 pcs
5. Galaxy Rasboras - 10 pcs
6. Panda corry - 5 pcs
7. snails: neritina zebra, and unknow number of helenas, Melanoides tuberculata...
They are waiting in a quarantine tank.
Fish to follow in a couple of months:
Pseudomugil furcatus
Tateurndina ocellicauda (rainbow gudgeon)
Stiphodon atropurpureus Blue Neon
I dream also about: pseudomugil tenellus, signifer and paskai....
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Looks super.
A person who surrenders when he is WRONG, is HONEST. A person who SURRENDERS when not SURE, is WISE. A person who surrenders even if he is RIGHT, is a HUSBAND.
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water clears really in a very short time.
Today, it looks like this:
and bogwood (I'm proud of it)
Sorry, my camera went down while I was taking pictures. Need to wait till tomorrow when batteries are rechanged...
@ Mickdaja and Tom - Blackwaters are georgeous!!
@ Vision 260 - get rid off silver dolars
plants are wonderfull and will keep you busy!!@ jwm - let me find some pictures of my bigger projects... and then... you won't refuse my secateur
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No mouth bigger than the smallest fish in tank.
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