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
My nano reef
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Still a work in progress.
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The liverock and sand about €60. have a koralia powerhead on the way for €30.
Some of the corals have been there a while but most have gone in in the last couple of weeks - about €150 worth altogether.
Fish and inverts - about €50
Looking at upgrading the lighting so that'll be a few bob more.
All told, about €400
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Looking good .And I should try something like this,i know nothing about marin tanks. .
Gedas
Was a discus keeper (king of the freshwater) myself, and got a small 120l marine setup about a year ago. Should have done it years ago, only then the technology wasn't as advanced, give it a go mate but always always take the setting up slowly allowing the system to keep in balance.
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is it a.blau set up
at the end of the day it becomes nite
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what corals and fish inhabit it
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
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Tank is Blau 38l with standard clip on light. Also have a blue led strip and a clip on LED light.
There is no filter. Just LR, a koralia 1 and weekly water changes. (this works fine for me)
Livestock is a common clown, a damsel (been told is not suitable for a tank this small), couple of hermit crabs and snails.
Corals are
2x leather finger.
1 toadstood leather.
Assorted mushrooms.
Button polyps.
Paddy
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Why do they build small tanks if no fish is suitable.
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Ah , commerce doesn't care whether the Fish is happy or not, I agree with certain Fish being kept in smaller Quarters as in their wild environment they rarely stray very far from home so keeping them in a confined place doesn't always stress them but there are limits, keeping Bettas in tiny Jars is, imho, disgusting and should, along with Gold fish Bowls, be banned.
Kev.
I had to run into a local pet shop yesterday because I was stuck for plant weights.
They had bettas on the counter in what looked like the plastic container you would get a smoothie in.
The volume of these are about 500ml at most and there was coloured gravel covering the bottom 1/4 of the container.
Poor fish hadn't room to fart, never mind swim !
Btw, the pet shop is not a sponsor here and is not somewhere I would normally go
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very nice
Very nice but Very gone!
This tank is no more unfortunately. Replaced it with another freshwater tank.
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Not difficult at all. Just weekly water changes.Hi paddy that was a cool little tank was it hard to keep? What sort of maintanence did u have to do on it an how often how come ya stopped keeping marines
Suppose I didn't really have the passion for marines. It was just a phase. I couldn't afford a big marine tank so I gave the nano a go.
Twas fun while it lasted !
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Looking at upgrading the lighting so that'll be a few bob more.
You must go down the Aquaray Marine aquabeam Marine Led route, the effect is incredible.
I had 4 on my Marine Set-up and was thrilled.
Kev.
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