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
Substrate Question
you could always glue substrate onto a flower pot to make it look like a hill; otherwise depending on whats in the tank or even while gravel cleaning you'd be blue in the face rescaping your hills.... thats my 2cents anyways
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my plywood tank build.
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there are lots of idea's for these sort of things on youtube and the net between aquaria and terrarium...
you could always glue substrate onto a flower pot to make it look like a hill; otherwise depending on whats in the tank or even while gravel cleaning you'd be blue in the face rescaping your hills.... thats my 2cents anyways
hmmmmm......good idea
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sorry to get off the point ,but i done this a while ago with two ltr bottles and aquatic soil
will this go anaerobic?
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But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
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I've found that over time, any nice slope you create using loose gravel will eventualy level out across the tank. Best to create barriers within the substrate to hold it up. You can use rocks, or tights, packed out with gravel and sewn shut, kind of like a sand bag tbh. I wouldn't worry about anaerobic pockets unless you are using a very compact substrate such as sand.
I think you have it spot on
@angelcichlid - not so sure
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there are lots of idea's for these sort of things on youtube and the net between aquaria and terrarium...
you could always glue substrate onto a flower pot to make it look like a hill; otherwise depending on whats in the tank or even while gravel cleaning you'd be blue in the face rescaping your hills.... thats my 2cents anyways
Stupid question davey but what did you search for on youtube to get the results, trying different wordings but not coming up with what I want!
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