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
what i need
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you need to add water conditioner to the water before adding it to the tank to get rid of all the metals
in the water and chlorine and chloramine as these can damage the fish gills and protective slime.
i have also always brought the water i'm adding to within the same certain degree's as the tank as to not
shock the fish, i previously used kettle water and then added tap water to cool it down and add conditioner
to make it safe for the fish and wait 20-30 mins for the conditioner to work.
you can get containers that you'd use for holding petrol from a store and pre-mix your water with
the conditioner and then when it comes to changing just heat it up by throwing a spare heater in it.
As for test's i've always had them but never use them just stick to the regiment of water changes
and it should be ok.
Hope this helps a bit long winded though.
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
quote Bruce Lee
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i would advise against putting the conditioner to the water after the water is added to the tank because the chlorines and chloramines would have gotten a chance to destroy some of the benificial bacteria you are trying to grow while cycling your tank... i take it you are only adding the dossage required for the volume of water you are replacing? that dossage is being diluted to much (due to the full tank volume being quite larger than the replacement volume) to take full effect in my opinion.
fish could be gasping due to ammonia poisoning because there is a lack of benificial bacteria to sustain good water quality; or could be just because of lack of oxygen in the water for which you would need to create surface movement or run a air pump/airline/airstone to help
could you please tell us about your current setup and filtration etc you are using?
cheers
Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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