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
Liquid fertiliser
I have been looking at EI for the past year but it would mean I would be changing 150L of water a week and that’s a lot of work
Do you use it yourself?
LB
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if I did a half dose of EIThen I would only have to do a 25% water change as usual
It would be better than nothing?
LB
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LB
Ps. i mean EI dosing your tank
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4 I was thinking
Then I would only have to do a 25% water change as usual
It would be better than nothing?
LB
hi LB, not sure if that would work
its about having the estimated maximum fert level
and then knocking it back with the w/c
so you dont risk overdosing (whatever that might do)
im sure zig knows more than me on this,
he may help or ask on ukaps
rgds
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Lar have you thought about EI dosing yourself?
LB
the only thing i regularly dose myself with starts with B and ends in EER ...
I'm not sure about EI at the moment like yourself i'd be put off by the big waterchanges every week,tho to be honest where my tank is situated my syphon tube goes out a window and down an outside drain..
filling is a bit more arkward tho,the thought of making my own fert doesn't scare me to be honest,I do it in the garden often enough,I think i'm just being lazy about it,,far easier to do a lesser water change and just add liquid Ferts in with it,TBH my plants all seem to be doing ok this way,when i first planted up the tank there was a bit of dieback among them,probably due to getting cold in the postal system( I ordered them from the UK)now they have settled in and are growing well,i reckon its time to go pruning soon...
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