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
Yellow belly terapins
Make sure the heater cannot be broken (eg it may need to be in a compartment away from the turtle).
Find out the age of the UV bulb....fluorescent tube UVs lose their UV output considerably with age.
Make sure the food is suitable for turtles (ie Turtle food) and that the foiod supplies enough calcium. If the UV lamp is not powerful enough, then supplements of vitamin d3 would be required in the food.
They will need a strict regime of tank cleaning (water changes, filter maintenance).
They live a longtime and get to a reasonable size.....so make sure the tank can cope with that.
and finally......a Turtle should not plonked into our waterways
ian
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The part of the article that is public is just a note on the responsibility thoughts required for taking on these species (as we keep getting e-mails asking to rehome....and we are not a rehome society
).There are the "ideal" lamps for these, but I don't force their recommendation as they require special setting up and safety conditions (esepcially around water).....that would be a mercury vapour lamp.
But, a fluorescent tube of good wattage and UV output will do (so long as food is watched).
Yes, having a basking lamp above the water would be best as heat is required to rapidly synthesis vitamin d3 and to raise the body to metabolic temperatures.
The main thing about the basking lamp is that it is safe.....water splashes etc etc.
ian
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