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
Dry cultivated to fully Aquatic
A lot of the plants available through your LFS and the sponsors are actually dry cultivated, that is to say they are grown as emerged plants. The roots are the only part of the plant that it submerged in any way.
Typically with such plants, they take a period of 1 to 4 weeks to adjust to being fully submerged. During this period, most plants will shed their leaves which have developed out of water and grow new leaves to cope with the fully submerged environment.
In a nutshell, you are good to go with these plants. It may be worth stating in any adverts that they have been grown "Emerged" to save you getting any hassle when the plants allegedly die within a week or 2
Cheers,
Bill.
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Hi Mark,
A lot of the plants available through your LFS and the sponsors are actually dry cultivated, that is to say they are grown as emerged plants. The roots are the only part of the plant that it submerged in any way.
Typically with such plants, they take a period of 1 to 4 weeks to adjust to being fully submerged. During this period, most plants will shed their leaves which have developed out of water and grow new leaves to cope with the fully submerged environment.
In a nutshell, you are good to go with these plants. It may be worth stating in any adverts that they have been grown "Emerged" to save you getting any hassle when the plants allegedly die within a week or 2
Cheers,
Bill.
Thanks a million for that. Reckon I have 70-80 pots of the Lilaeopsis brasiliensis.
The Eleocharis acicularis grows it's runners on the end of the stems when dry cultivated instead of just above the roots. This I think I will actually need to submerge before I can pot it up.
Thanks again Bill!
Mark
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Have seen this stuff first hand folks, very nice indeed. @ Bill, that stopped a whole lot of head scratchin
Jay
Good to see you still pop by when you get time Jay, getting a tank up n running soon?
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