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
how many tetra in a 240 ?
i'm definitely going with loads of tetras and small fish anyway
i like the thought of all the the little shrimps aswell
i can stick in a fair few by the sound of it
that's grand
maybe about 30 Hyphessobrycon bentosi, 30 Hyphessobrycon columbianus, a few hyper fish (giant danio, barb mackerel)to keep them all moving and some pleco's etc. etc.
i'm wondering if,
they would all mix together ?
would the above mentioned hyper fish nip the tetra ?
what would be the best kind of non-aggressive fish to keep the tetra moving ?
would i get away with the shrimps or would they be eaten ?
also i'm thinking if i could do some sort of bonsai tree looking type thing instead of the usual semi-sporadic planting arrangements ?
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i think i might be able to get a true goliath african tiger fish
can't resist, promised myself i'd get another one after the last one died
plenty of space to grow him on in there
do it prorerly this time round
it'd be his tank, so very little tank mates to give him loads of space to beef up
yeah, i think that's the way to go...
only question is, can you keep a few of them together ?
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Yeh about 2-3 ft, plenty big lol!!! Yeh they usually hunt in schoals bit like piranha but only really suited in a public display in a group... best to keep one in your size tank.
the 240 is just to grow them on a bit and then i'd get progressively bigger tanks as needed
sure you'd have to, maybe get 2 and see how they get on, if they don't kill each other, get another 2...
i love the thought of having a few of those fish
although i've seen some videos of them, big enough ones in home aquariums and they all seem to have loads of algae on the glass, which i find to be slightly concerning, once bitten and all that, mesh glove or long algae scrubber on a stick, me thinks...
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