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
tea bags(Amazon River)
It has been used on some african cichlid and trout (everything is testing on trout because of the economic value) with promising results....and that could be good.
At high concentrations, the Theophylline found in tea may have some pretty powerful inhibitory effects (eg stop clarias catfish or Tilapia marie breeding, or make swordtails not change their colour under bright light) ...but you're unlikely to be reaching those levels of dosing.
That brings back memories of the days when I gave a presentation to pharmaceutical companies on the use of Theophylline from tea (a modified version) in treating asthma in kids. I was young, had no grey hair, and didn't need a goatie beard to hide the crinkled laughter lines around the old mouth.
And also used Tea in my amazon tanks back then as well.
I am a big strong tea and strong coffee drinker.....for my tarantulas that is a problem because if they decided to fang me, then as caffeins is toxic to tarantula, then I'd be more poisonous to them then they are to me
I don't have such a problem with fish.
As for Tea for us Humans......best drink of day anyday, and for good reasons.
ian
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I am a big strong tea and strong coffee drinker.....for my tarantulas that is a problem because if they decided to fang me, then as caffeins is toxic to tarantula, then I'd be more poisonous to them then they are to me
So funny, you crack me up.
Kev.
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has any body used tea bags in their tank to give the look of the light brown coloured water found in the Amazon River ?.....
Now you have me thinking, here's a Post from another Site, now I'm really interested!!
www.aquaticcommunity.com/aquariumforum/a...dex.php/t-37172.html
www.buy4now.ie/Bewleys/Product/Bewleys-R...s-Tea-25s/200455/2.1
Kev.
get me a pallet load of them for the big tank kev
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I am a big strong tea and strong coffee drinker.....for my tarantulas that is a problem because if they decided to fang me, then as caffeins is toxic to tarantula, then I'd be more poisonous to them then they are to me
So funny, you crack me up.
Kev.
I live in a mad house here with my zoo, 4 tanks in the bedroom and my young 41 year old glamorous grandmother (she's not my grandmother....she's grandmother of my grandson
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so it helps with Algae, are they benefits for the fish,how much can you use per/L, also how much does it affect PH ? are they draw backs/disadvantages from using teabags....is green tea the only one you can use?
Green tea works like mangroves leaves, oak or alder cones, acidified water and enriched with tannins, and as we know at the appropriate pH and balanced view of algae should not be too much, of course, tea is the same as the extract from peat.
At the risk of being attacked by the whole forum here
......I wouldn't totally agree with the last bit Draco: tea is not the same as extract from peat (just me being technically nerdy and picky), but it's affects on some unwanted organisms in the water is very much likened to the effects of peat extract.Ian
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