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
Stocking Suggestions Guys?
This is the setup so far.... + manado and maybe some rock and moss hopefully. Thanks Guys Ill be looking at every fish you suggest
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. I have serpae tetra,very busy fish and in a big shoal they look super. Lots of people go for one stand out fish, google American Flag fish again nice little unusual fish.John
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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Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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I'd agree with the Guys on changing to a Black Back Ground, it'd look a lot better
I also agree on using R.O. Water (Reverse Osmosis) to soften Your water, it would make it easier to find tankmates for Your Kerri Danios + I can't believe the ammonia reading on your mains water, disgraceful & They want Us to pay for it...
Love Kerri Danios (as You know)
cool Fish
Des
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being in glasnevin your not too far from finglas so i'd pop into des in maxizoo... i know des well and can guarantee he'll give ye top advise... he has a thing for smaller fish so stocks a good range of them
cheers Dave
very nice of You to say
I know Sean well, Cool Guy
New to the Hobby but already Obsessed (Just like the rest of Us)
Des
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Thanks comets, ian seems like a very intelligent guy, i havent a fucking clue what that stuff means haha.
That's where asking question after question comes in.
On the ammonia, mixing 50% with RO water from the LFS will do little to bring that down.
In another thread here, I calculated the ammonia in the water from the pH and temperature you gave me.
The readings from the tap only go so far to being a guide to the water parameters in your tank when it is set-up and starts to mature.
Tap water is fairly unstable when fresh out of the tap anyway.
The pH reading from the tap only gives a mild indication of what conditions you'll have in the tank if there is no alkalinity reading to go with it.
Once you can get that ammonia to zero in the tank and can keep the water clean, then there are many fish that ordinarily prefer acid water that would cope well with pHs just over 7.
I try never to go too strong on recommending what fish (as they would probably be the type of fish that I like
), but my advice would be to look at what you like the look of and then decide if they will mix or be compatible with the water conditions.Further to that, though, I would also recommend starting with fish that are 'flexible friends' and don't prevent you from developing further.
Danios are a great fish, many species of gourami (not Dwarf Gourami or the larger species) are good flexible fish, emperor tetras are also a good sturdy fish that allows quite a bit of flexibility for future developments.
ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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