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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
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18 Jan 2017 18:31 #1
by robert (robert carter)
Just checked my tropical tank , dead fish everywhere , have just netted 12 dead fish . Did my usual 20% water change last night and all was ok going to bed . Now i reckon the cause was feeding some sinking stergoen pellets at lights out because i have run out of catfish wafers . The dead fish were all large enough to eat these and they all had very enlarged bellies , all the small fish are fine . I feed these pellets into the pond where there are koi to feed the stergeon and never had a problem . So why did they kill the tropical fish ? Have just done a 25% water change incase there are any trace elements from the pellets left in the tank . Please give your accessment of what went wrong . Incidently ammonia and nitrite levels perfect
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18 Jan 2017 21:46 #2
by robert (robert carter)
Just found 2 more dead fish this time small ones , dont know whats going on , any ideas lads?
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18 Jan 2017 22:28 #4
by robert (robert carter)
Loads of oxygen have a powerhead with a venturi on it going in the tank , ph is always a bit low due to the tap water but got a reading of 6.4 . To me it has to have been the stergeon pellets but why , the koi are all good . The fact that is is mainly the bigger fish and that they all have very swollen bellies points to the food
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18 Jan 2017 23:29 #5
by nomad (pat murphy)
I think theres some reaction going on with cold water pellet food being fed in a tropical tank,the bigger fish are going down first they can eat the bigger pellet but as the pellet brakes down the smaller fish will succunb.
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19 Jan 2017 18:53 #6
by robert (robert carter)
Have just added a 6 inch airstone to the tank to rule out the lack of oxygen theory, still think it was the food seeing all the fish had very swollen bellies
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20 Jan 2017 12:53 #7
by irish-zx10r (James feenan)
sorry to hear about your fish have you tested your tap water maybe there could be a problem there hope you find out what went wrong
Something fishie going on here
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20 Jan 2017 13:46 #8
by Jonlate (Jon Late)
Did you autopsy any of them and see what in there belly?
Ian at aquatic village will do it for you if you are to squeamish to do it yourself.
That would give you a definite answer as to the problem.
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20 Jan 2017 14:07 #9
by robert (robert carter)
Thanks for the post lads , i now have a 12 inch airstone enstalled in the tank , didnt open the bellies of any of the fish , but they were all very bloated still reckon it was the food , everything has settled down again . Just would love to know the cause that way i can prevent it happening again
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