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
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If I understsnd ian correctly then the addition of salt did more harm than good?
Not necessarily.
Sodium Chloride has many beneficial effects on various fish, but certain fish do not really tolerate it very well. Hence, why I tend not to recommend it as a ubiquitous cure for white spot.
I would not use sodium chloride in any noticeable concentration on characins, certain catfish or rift valley cichlids.
Similarly, certain off-the-shelf white medications need caution with certain species of fish eg Waterlife produce one of the best off-the-shelf WS medications that does need caution in use, but eSHa Exit is one of the milder ones that I have found can readily be use with very sensitive fish.
Another WS treatment method that does not do all fish good is the raising of the temp to 80/86F.....fine for many fish but it is not going to do some rift valley cichlids or some Corys or some South American Killifish much good at all.
A number of commonly recommended treatments are actually a bit old-fashioned and merely a copy-n-paste from methods used 70 or 80 years ago
I no longer keep Malawi cichlids, so I am not sure if what is available for sale is rubbish or not (OK....I'll admit it.....most of what I see for sale are rubbish).
ian
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