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
Fishless Cycle Using Ammonia & SafeStart
I think you are saying a test has to be Repeatable and Reliable Sean, in oreder for the results to have any credability or merit in the Scientific realm of things.I agree with you on that one.
Does this mean we have to back up anything we say on this forum with graphs now!!!Damn you Essjay,you have raised the bar.
BORINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Anyone know a site looking for an Admin.
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You will need an ammonia source to keep your bacteria alive long term. Oxygen alone won't do it.
You don`t need to add any more ammonia.
You bacteria wont die. It will probably only take a few days for the nitrites to reach zero. Then you can do a water change and add some fish.
The amounts of Ammonia you were adding would take a lot of fish to produce, not just one of two.
At worse your bacteria would go into a hybernatic(is this a word
) state.The reason bacteria survives in the bottles you buy in the shops is because there is no ammonia to kill them.
Ammonia kills bacteria.In small doses and with plentiful oxygen it can be broken down.
Thast what kills your filther if your power goes off, Ammonia and the depletion of oxygen.
The bacteria stops reproducing without a food source and oxygen unless its an anerobic bacteria.
IME I would stop adding the ammonia, wait till the nitrite reaches zero and add some fish.
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The reason bacteria survives in the bottles you buy in the shops is because there is no ammonia to kill them.
Jaysus Anto, let's not go there again
Regards,
Ken.
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The reason bacteria survives in the bottles you buy in the shops is because there is no ammonia to kill them.
Jaysus Anto, let's not go there again
I know
We need another beefheart post.
I refuse to get drawn in again. :shock:
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