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
[160 l] My planted tank - Emi
Diameters:
100x40x40 (W x L x H) [cm]
Light:
Sylvania Aquastar 39 W
Narva Bio-light 960 39 W
Light is DIY (stabilizer, rubber brakets with wires, handles for fluorescent lamps)
The cover is also DIY (pcv)
Filtration:
TetraTec Ex 600
Heating:
heater 150 W
Aeration:
Only water surface move
Fertilization:
In ground (the ground is DIY substrate + grit) and every day: macro, micro and ferro (Planta Gainer Micro, Planta Gainer Macro and Planta Gainer Ferro+ from Aqua Art), CO2 parallel with the lights (high-pressure gas cylinder with reducer, elecric valve)
Water parameters:
Temp: 26 degrees Celsius
pH: about 6,7
kh = 6 german degrees
gh = 8 german degrees
NO3 = 20 mg/l
PO4 = 1,5 mg/l
Fe = 0,5 mg/l
Fishes...:
10 x Hyphessobrycon columbianus
5 x Mikrogeophagus altispinosa
2 x Corydoras (albino+paleatus)
6 x Paracheirodon axelrodi
8 x Hyphessobrycon amandae
10 x Boehlkea fredcochui
8 x Aphyocharax rathbuni
3 x Otocinclus sp.
X x Poecilia reticulata black
...and others:
1 x Neritina natalensis
1 x Clithon corona
X x Caridina multidentata
X x Caridina cf. babaulti
X x Neocaridina heteropoda var. red
??? x Melanoides tuberculata
Plants:
Rotala macrandra, macrandra green, indica, green
Microsorium: windelov, latifolia, narrow, philipine
Mchy: singapore, weeping, erect, x-moos, willow, phoenix
Ranalisma rostrata
Marsilea crenata
Eleocharis acicularis
Echinodorus: magdalensis, tenellus
Cryptocoryne: wendtii green gecko, undulata, spiralis
Blyxa japonica, aubertii
Limnophila aromatica
Bacopa australis
Cabomba furcata, piauhyensis
Didiplis diandra
Monosolenium tenerum
Riccardia chamedryfolia
Lomariopsis lineata
Myriophyllum taberculatum
Lysimachia nummularia
Alternanthera splendida
Limnobium spongia
Salvinia natans
Ammania gracilis
Ranunculus inundatus
Care:
Once per week: change 40% of water (RO with minerals Aqua Art Hydromineral), prune plants
P.S.
Sorry for my english
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It's great you also put up the additional info for anyone wishing to do a planted tank.
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Hyphessobrycon columbianus in my tank:
My Caridina multidentata:
Male:
Female:
Corydoras paleatus:
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Columbian tetra in other light:
Neocaridina heteropoda var. red:
New fishes in my tank:
Blue tetra - Boehlkea fredcochui:
Ember tetra - Hyphessobrycon amandae:
Green fire tetra - Aphyocharax rathbuni:
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Mikrogeophagus altispinosus:
Hemigrammus erythrozonus:
Hemigrammus pulcher:
Sawbwa resplendens (in other tank):
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2 days after restart:
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The aquarium started at 1.08.2007 and it was my first planted set up. I think, that 2-3 months it enough so that the aquarium already looks nice but earlier it is necessary to learn a lot about plants (in my case 8-9 month).
PS. Sorry for my English
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New foto:
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Your tank is amazing. Well done
.Jay
Location: Finglas, North Dublin.
Life
may not be the party we hoped for, but while we
are here we might as well dance.
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Mick........
Follow me up to Carlow
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