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
Overdosing liquid carbon
Hi to all,
I have a question, did overdosing liquid carbon could cause bacteria bloom?
Story is I re aquascaped my fish tank 2 months ago, and after few days I have to leave country for 2,5 weeks, and my girlfriend was looking after, so no water changes, and instead liquid carbon she been dosing ferts, so then I came back, I couldn't see any plants, only all sort of algea, and the worst thing all bottom of the tank was covered with green blue algea, I did a lot of water changes 50% every 3 days, a lot of algea gone, but not fully, I have pressurised co2 but ading liquid too , with reason ,cause I have heavy planted tank, and a 200wats of light on 275 litres tank., since I came back water all the time cloudy, even if I'm not turning filter off( the filter is fx5 over 2kg of ceramic balls only, and filter floss) then doing water changes, all parameters good, all tested, I was ading tap water mixing with RO same result, ading RO water only, same thing, all plants growing fine .every nite air pump is on, and day time is off, this morning before wok didn't added any liquid carbon, but water still remains cloudy, never came around such a thing before, bacteria bloom all the time.
So if anyone has any idea, can share with me.
Thanks
I will add picture later.
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