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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

ph getting lower

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24 Oct 2008 16:25 #1 by umm (karen baker)
Hi all. have been offline for a while and looking forward to catching up with whats been going on. anyway since I added an Ancistrus a number of weeks ago the ph has begun to drop. I think it might be because he is constantly rasping the bog oak, its practically shining:laugh: and therefor more acidity is being released into water? or could it be his poo, he produces tons every day.

I clean it up and next morn its back:huh: What can I do to increase alkalinity. ph was 7-7.2 now 6.6. everything else is fine and fish look good but dont want levels to keep dropping. thanks

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24 Oct 2008 20:02 #2 by sheag35 (Seamus Gillespie)
Bogwood will naturally reduce ph in your tank with or without you ancistrus rasping on it, the water will find its level naturally with this in the tank but if your worried about it put some limestone, coral rock in the tank it buffers the ph up so they may cancel each other out. if its not causing your fish stress and nitrites etc are ok leave it find its own level and work with fish that are comfortable in that range, otherwise remove the bogwood. ancistrus graze on bogwood so if you remove it cut it up and put in a smaller bit and replace it as it is rasped away
Seamus

Fishkeeping the Only way to get wet and wild

currently 25 tanks, and breeding is the aim of everything i keep
location:Limerick

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24 Oct 2008 20:38 #3 by umm (karen baker)
Thanks. cant remove the wood,(dont want to either) but might look at adding something alright.

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24 Oct 2008 21:38 #4 by pkearney (Phil Kearney)
to increase ph add a spoonful of breadsoda disolved in


tankwater. check ph later to see if you have added enough.

keep an eye on the ph!
phil.

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