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
MOSS PEAT?
Sean Crowe
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Location: Navan
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I'm pretty particular about what I use as this is used on discus, chocolate and other gouramis, african cichlids (not them lake things though
) and others requiring low salt content water but peaty at the same time.ian
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ian i looked up that sphagnum moss turf but no that was not it the stuff i was given looked more like this and when i googled this i put in turf? so not sure but this is wat it looked like
What you've got there is good old fashioned sods of turf dug from an Irish bog, its what people down the country use to heat their homes instead of coal or oil
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ian i looked up that sphagnum moss turf but no that was not it the stuff i was given looked more like this and when i googled this i put in turf? so not sure but this is wat it looked like
What you've got there is good old fashioned sods of turf dug from an Irish bog, its what people down the country use to heat their homes instead of coal or oil
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.... utilising your natural resorces is not classed as stealing from nature because you cannot own what is wild 
have you tried just using bogwood?
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my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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Thanks. Now to locate a pair of tights without getting in trouble with Missus.
Pennies do 5 pairs in a pack (for a euro or 2) of pop-sox......they are the right denier rating (not too low, not too high) for filters as well.
......and how do you know that your missus would not approve of your tights buying?
nothing wrong with a bit of spice (it's the modern world)
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Mark hows things thanks for the info mate,
I started this a good while back when i started keeping a lot off soft water fish did work a small amount as in the brick but i found RO water to work a lot better for me and this is what i use now aswell as a soil for the bottom to reduce the PH.
Any photos off what you are using?
Do you just leave it in the bottom off your water change bin?
Sean
No pics at present, gave a bit away when the fish all went last week, very dark brown loose peat. Very moist, not dry at all.
Not suitable for tights lovers
If you put it in the bin, in a day or three it will sink to the bottom where it pretty much looks and feels like mud. Same in a tank though it does need a stir now and again.
I'm able to keep just a 54 litre now so I can go all out with this, peat n heat all the way for rummies and ancistrus. I boil the temp hardness off and into the peat it goes.
There is a visible difference with Rummy nose general behavior when your kH gH is below 2 and pH 6ish compared to even just 7pH and 3kH gH or above. I think mine are getting frisky.
I've started to phase in the peat into my substrate day by day, i'll go about 50\50 mixed substrate\peat.
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I'm looking to lower my pH and this has helped me no end!
Niall
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