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
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- funkychic (trish coughlan)
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its set up about a week now . but the clean up gang in yesterday .
every thing is alright at moment .
just have to be patience looking forward to put fish in .
anyone an advice .
plus a big thanks to all at seahorse for there help
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compartment 1: heater
compartment 2: 1 kg LR rubble
compartment 3: 1 kg LR rubble and activated carbon
compartment 4: 2 power head pumps (direct one of the heads to the surface to create surface aggiation and help gas exchange theother is blowing over the LR)
also have about 7kg or 8kg of LR in the tank
oh and the little mistake i made during cycle was leavin the lights on, algae went mad but after i turned them off it went away.
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I have to say i am surprised they sold you a clean up crew a week after the tank was set up. Maybe they gave you some established media for the filter or some live sand from an established tank? How is you tank cycled so quickly?
I think the best advise is to Wait until the tank is fully cycled. If you have live rock in the tank you can sit back and enjoy the critters, corals, sponges or algae (good algae) that start to appear before you introduce any livestock.
You can expect a diatom algae bloom around the 6-8 week mark. This is normal and it is a good idea to introduce the clean up crew when this appears. Don't worry the diatom bloom will pass.
With such a small volume of water you will need to top up the water almost dayle to keep the salinity stable. You can just use tap water. Only the water evaporates and not the salt so no need to add salt water dayle. You also need to keep the temp. stable.
IMO patients is the key to a successful start.
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Fishkeeping CV: Co-founded, 1st President of the only surviving Fishkeeping Club (Accredited by Dept. of Fisheries) in the Philippines (mypalhs.com). I have mostly reared tropicals - Arowanas and monster fishes. My oldest arowana is 13years old (died in a tropical storm). Ive since reared a Black,...
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hows your tank ?????
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you dont use the filter pads, bio balls etc... at all. just get 2kg of live rock rubble and put it in the 2 back compartments. i use a filter bag with carbon in it in one of the compartments(helps clear up the water, you can get it from your lfs)
my tank is doing great, i have 2 clowns in it and a cleaner shrimp. i'm looking to get one more cleaner shrimp and one more fish(not sure whick one yet)
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