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
New Build
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There will be fish this weekend. Water test done by SH showed 8.1 ph 0 ammonia 0 nitrate, 0 nitrite but 0.2 PO4 so once reactor is running hopefully tomorrow it will sort that out.
Put in a tester snail this evening to make sure it survives the night then it will be all hands getting ready for the move this weekend
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Went along today and moved around my powerhead control units, repositioned and turned on skimmer again so thats running quite well now, whill still need a couple of days to settle but looks good.
Built and piped my reactors today, going to test in the morning after work for leaks and the like before putting it in the sump but looked good. Sump is starting to look abit crowded. Still have the auto topup to go in.
Once i have everything up and running i will spend a couple of weeks finding out the best way to wire and keep my flexi piping under the tank to make it easy to change media and the like.
Put in first bag of copepods today as well with the powerheads and return off. Looked so lovely and pink floating around under the lights
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Had a look at the cultures, and read through their way of keeping it going, look pretty easy, and if you got a couple of runs outta it it would be far less than buying the packs in SH, might even sell them to galway as they never feckin have any lol.
Think i might have a good once the temp outside settles down and might run a few cultures in my extension as ill have the room there to set them up, maybe run an airline into a few of them from the one pump and see how good they work. try out a couple of different ways in each of the cultures.
MAD SCIENTIST TIME LOL. . . . . . hehehehehe
Got nothing else done with my tank, current residence is :
2 snowflake clowns
4 canary wrasse
10 turbo snails
5 ceriths (so far)
2 trochus snails
4 red leg hermits
1 large emerald crab
2 fighting conch
the reason its not higher is because Galway SH doesnt have any more. I totally done them out of cerith, turbos and red hermits lol. been asking for weeks for them to get mroe to no avail, ringing dublin in the morning.
I have algae starting to grow everywhere now so hoping to get more cleanup crew by friday if dublin will delivery, but i heard someone tell me they starting online ordering as of this week
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feeling alot better now. Have had NO3 at 0 for about a week and a half and my PO4 2 weeks ago was at 0.2 and now its under 0.1, wasnt running reactors until last week so doing more tests during the week as LFS has not a mimic tang in that looks lovely and my misses wants it, and she wants it now lol. its only a baby so hopefully it will be fine lol.
everything has been low since i put my first cleanup crew into it, ill give a full water test post as soon as i do one.
Here is what my misses wants to put in, all babies going into the tank to help with aggression levels
1 Mimic tang
2 Royal Blue Tang
1 Yellow
1 Kole Tang
1 Cleaner wrasse
4 canary wrasse
2 snowflake clowns
1 Coral Beauty (i think thats the fish she picked lol)
and maybe some other wrasse she has her eyes on cant remember the name, some sort of red fairy wrasse.
then plus all the normal cleanup guys.
The above will be put in in a gradual basis because the Kole is definately going to take awhile to get ordered, he will be put in with the yellow tang as the mimic will be in already.
fairy wrasse will be another while after that before they go in.
I am planning a 100l a week water change for the first few months, just to make sure the tank stays pretty stable and using stability dose weekly as well.
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Tank is going great, glued in all corals with only a few heads lost on a frogspawn after all the hastle of moving everything. May have lost a head of a cats paw but it seams to be recovering.
Current stocking is as follows :
1 Yellow Mimc Tang
1 eibli mimic tang
1 Coral Beauty
1 Square Back Anthias
4 Sold as Canary Wrasse but think they are banana wrasse as one is changing colour
2 snowflake clowns
1 cleaner wrasse
2 royal blue tangs
All the clean up crew you can shake a stick at :
There is one last fish going to be added, a Mimic Lemon Peel Tang otherwise known as a chocolate tang.
Here is a pic of the tank with corals and fish just before feeding, loads of differnet corals, will try and put up an extensive list soon. Includes,
2 frogspawns
2 cats paws
birds nests
acros
star polyps
green slimers
brains
montis
duncans
and a few more, will be fragging fast grows to keep them as nice looking and to keep the flow in the tank so if anyone likes anything let me know and ill let them know when things are ready to frag.
Other than that, all water parameters are good, doing weekly 100l water changes and dosing stability once a week.
Going changing the RW20's to smaller versions i got from the other tnak i bought, as i think that could be one of the reasons i lost heads on my frogspawn.
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