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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

cichlids to marines?

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08 Jan 2011 15:07 #1 by colly130 (Colin)
just doing a bit of research before i make my decision but im thinkin of changing from african cichlids to a marine set up... how big of a change is it and what are the main things you need to do that you wouldn do with cichlids??

cheers colly

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09 Jan 2011 00:55 #2 by andrewo (andrew)
Hey there; just go through the marine section in the forum; lots of helpful advice there.

I jumped into marines too good few weeks back myself(with no regrets except for hole in pocket :laugh: ) BUT i still kept my cichilds.

All the best;

Andrew

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09 Jan 2011 11:42 #3 by ejgibbo (eric)
Hi ,
I recently changed from SA cichlids to marine ,
I have 120litre tank ,
I have to say the main ingredient involved is money :( !!!
I spent over 800 euro to change the tank to the way it is now that's without buying the tank ,
Personally I would say if your getting a new tank , get one that has all marine equipment included because it would be alot less hassle and work and money ,
I keep :
20 kg of live rock
4 mushroom corals ,
2 cauliflower corals
2 White bubble tip anemones
2 ocellaris clownfish ,
1 yellow tang ,
1 coral beauty
1 serpent starfish ,
2 hermit crabs

I don't use a skimmer , I used to have a smaller marine tank when I was about 13 and it had a skimmer built in and I found that the fish just weren't as healthy etc .
I would recommend alot of water flow I do a 40times turnover of 4800l/ph
And a filtration of 1200l/ph with my tetratec ex1200
If your buying powerheads I'd look at sunsun ones on eBay great value and good quality !
It's not too bad taking care of it , I find it quite easy ,
You have to be extremely careful with adding fish etc because whitespot is mental in marine !
Sorry for yappin on ,
If you have any qs just pm me and I'll answer them for you ,
...
Eric

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10 Jan 2011 02:24 #4 by andrewo (andrew)
jeepers eric; with all that stock(i mean the corals) how do you get away without a skimmer?? is it because of the ultra strong filtration you have??

regards;
andrew

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10 Jan 2011 10:32 #5 by Viperbot (Jason Hughes)
ejgibbo wrote:


I don't use a skimmer , I used to have a smaller marine tank when I was about 13 and it had a skimmer built in and I found that the fish just weren't as healthy etc .

Eric


Hi,

Are you sure the skimmer was the problem? What did you notice on the fish etc that gave you concern? I dont use a skimmer myself but my system is a FOWLR, however when I kept a reef I would always use a skimmer, when keeping corals in the long term they are widely regarded as as even more important than filters. In fact, there are folks out there that dont use any sort of mechanical filtration but rely on the skimmers and wc's to keep things in shape.

Jay

Location: Finglas, North Dublin.

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10 Jan 2011 19:32 #6 by colly130 (Colin)
can anyone explain wat the skimmer is as the thread says not a marine expert haha...
would u guys recommend changing over or not ?

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10 Jan 2011 20:03 #7 by Ieva star (Ieva Fogta)
Yes Jay is bang on skimmer is the job

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10 Jan 2011 20:15 - 10 Jan 2011 20:18 #8 by Viperbot (Jason Hughes)
Essentialy, a skimmer creates a vortex of tiny bubbles within a closed unit. These bubbles have surface tension that DOC's (dissovled organic compounds) stick to and are forced into a removeable container where they are collected until you empty it. These DOC's are the broken down bits of biological waste that are too small to be removed by conventional filtration. Trust me, once you use one and see how effective they are, you wont be without one on any reef tank you keep in the future.

Just to add, there are skimmers then there are skimmers. The cheaper ones are usually pretty useless. I can recommend the Deltec ones from experience.

Jay

Location: Finglas, North Dublin.

Life
may not be the party we hoped for, but while we
are here we might as well dance.
Last edit: 10 Jan 2011 20:18 by Viperbot (Jason Hughes).

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