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
Algae, Algae, Algae!
The wind blew a garden umbrella over, which very kindly redirected _all_ the water out of the pond.
I am now in the process of re-filling with RO/DI water.
Should sort out the algae once and for all.
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Gavin's right a u.v clalifer should be used
You know yourself
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Think I'll go for barley straw next since I have a UV already.
The bulb likely needs replacing in it. (Its a greengenie 6000)
The water itself is clear - under all the algae
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Then use barley straw and algae remover Barley straw needs sunlight and stops the algae growing further if you have alot of algae to will r]probably have to remove by hand with net had to do this last year it's long and painful but try it.
Also check that your genie is able to handle the volume of water i had to add a larger pump
I still use the old pump aswell
it's worth it for peace of mind algae in ponds go mad in the summer months regualr cleaning of filter is a must also
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You know yourself
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It was I who told myself o use waste RO.
The way I figured it was:
90 odd % of RO water gets wasted. Only the good water leaves the membrane, and the rejected water -> which has no sediment larger than 5 microns, and also has no chlorine or chloramine (aswell as other disolved metals) due to the carbon filter, is still going to be better than tap water (as it contains all of the above)
By flushing the membrane, this gets rib of those additional nutrients that are glued to the membrane wall. So I figure I'll flush it for a few secs, and the waste water should still be far better than tap water. Unless I'm missing something
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I have not seen the fish in a while
Hopefully they are just hiding under the _algae_ :oops:
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