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
doing 50% w/c's a day
mmmm, i have otto's
i dont have another tank apart from a 60l dp tank
(that could get messy!) is Hotel Platy open???
i will go slow, i did a bit tonight with a 20% change
and that was enough to suck the crap that i disturbed,
i'm mainly removing algae-ridden plants
i could always put them in a big 40l bucket i have
and do a total blitz when i comes to replanting and hardscape
i had it in my head to try maintain some of the bacteria goodies
in the substrate, so i have been spot cleaning areas i have disturbed
i have removed
cheers
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The 40L bucket would do. Fill it with water from the tank. Add a heater but you need to make sure it dosent get to hot. You need an air pump to keep the water aerated and i would get a bag of zeolite from your LFS.
Rinse the bag of zeolite and tie it onto the airline in the bucket. This will remove any ammonia.
You just need to remove any uneaten food or dirt from the bucket each day and top up.
I would trow a towel or something over the bucket to keep it dark and sop the fish jumping out. Just leave a small space for a little light.
This way you can tear away at your tank at your own pace. If the fish were in the tank all the particles floating around from the substrate will eventually take it's toll on the fish's gills. Irritating the hell out of them.
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