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
aquatic compost
I bought a bag of this when I started to get in to real plants,I use home made plant pots,the end of 2ltr bottles just to start off the plan was to eventually use 3 or 4"s capped with sand on the bottom of the tank but decided against. It simply for cleaning. It's just to handy to be able to take the plants out and give a good clean, now with this and my CO2 I'm gettin good growth. So I decided to do a dirted tank,a Cory 60ltr grow out to see how I get on!
And its dirt cheap
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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I'd only recommend this sort of thing for a really low tech aquarium where you won't be constantly putting plants in or pulling plants out because soil is very messy when you disturb it. It’s true…when you have a heavy planted aquarium because of the lots of plants these effects will be diminishing, but…
You might have success with it as some other colleagues, I don`t want to argue with anybody, but I`m pretty sure it`s not the best option for a planted tank as you have seen on planted contests. Beware if you have Corys or other catfish!
Why not buy some JBL Aquabasis, it’s quite cheap also and does a good job for the paid money.
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