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
Noob Mistake
So I got in from work yesturday evening to find my three big Silverdollars and my two Oscars washed out and sulking behind their usual hiding spots. I immediately knew something was wrong because the Oscars would normally thrash about and make noise to get ny attention so Ill feed them. I dropped in some waxworms for them and some flake for the Silverdollars and nothing budged. I had only tested the water two days ago before a waterchange and all was well. I tried hand feeding the Oscars with the worms as I usually do and felt the water water was pretty chilly. Turns out I never plugged the heater back in after topping off the tank. Normally I check everything but that day the phone rang an I walked away without doing it. Over the course of two days the temperature dropped about 10 celsius to 17 degrees
. The tanks volume is 400 litres and I was suprised haw quickly the temp dropped in it, but its been cold lately and Im usually not around so the heating in the room was off. I managed to get the temp back up but Im expecting and outbreak in the tank after such a big drop in temperature. Ive been considering dosing the tank with meds to head off any infection but am unsure if this is wise right now. Any advice here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.Oh, feel free to let loose with the stick...well deserved.
Jay
Location: Finglas, North Dublin.
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