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
Nano marine tank
Nice tank
If your interested I'll find out the price for you
a 3foot tank might be easier and cheaper to setup for a 1st tank though
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i have a grand tank going without metal halides, there not essetial, especially as ur a beginner, u wont want to keep anything more complicated than softies for the first year or 2 anyway, thats if u wanna gradually learn as u go and not spend a fortune in the process
i would recommend a tank no smaller than 180 litres, of course im a relative newbie my self but thats the figure ive read loads of times,
the thing is the more water u have in a tank the more everything is diluted, and the longer it takes for temperatures to swing and that,
if u have a pint of boiling water and a barrel of boiling water, the pint will go cold quicker in general, and its the same idea with salt and calcium and phosphate etc etc....
so having a bigger tank will give u a bit of room for error, but only a bit:lol:
i had an 80 litre nano tank for a while with a MH light over it, it also had a sump of about 20 litres, so it wasnt really a nano as such but the biggest problem i hd with it was the temp swings from the MH light as the day went by, before the lights went on it would be 26 and by the end of the light cycle it would be touching 32, but in the end i found a way around it by installing computer fans in the sump cabinet and that helped to steady it out
but u see what i mean ye???
this is a link for a tank thats for sale, it might suit u
www.irishfishkeepers.com/cms/index.php?o...d=17038&catid=34
Post edited by: buleetu, at: 2007/07/12 18:24
kiss my fishy AS S
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i had an 80 litre nano tank for a while with a MH light over it, it also had a sump of about 20 litres, so it wasnt really a nano as such but the biggest problem i hd with it was the temp swings from the MH light as the day went by, before the lights went on it would be 26 and by the end of the light cycle it would be touching 32, but in the end i found a way around it by installing computer fans in the sump cabinet and that helped to steady it out
but u see what i mean ye???
Its a question of phiyics not even water chemistry, even a 2 year old child will move away from a hot fire if too close, a 32 degree marine tank is madness for most speciers except things like madrine gobys that live in rock pools. With shallow water tanks a metal halide lamp will fulualter temp, especially if the room is over 18C, I talked about 2 foot being the minium to breed a pair of A, Oclarris, but I have kept one clown with an amemone in a disused adult brine acrylic dispensr (the type use to hold them in LFS this was way under 18Litres, althogh I dont advise abeginner to do that.
Its all realitve! a 2 foot tank with a tricle filter is infinetely CHEMICALLY more stable than a 4 foot tank using live rock as the bio medium, athough a 4 foot tank will be more stable temp wise, although temp flucation is less of a problem as when you dive without a wetsuit one can really notice masive temp drops (2C) between currentas and water climps so I am not convined marine have evoled in a temp stable enivoment, they have evolved in a chemical stable enviroment.
Too big a tank is difficult to do water changes or clean the bottom, I guess the ideal size marine tank is 4 feet by 18iches wide 18 iches deep, but if one is trying to convine parents or a wife to have \"one more tank\" a 2 foot marine tank without metal halide lamp with a pair of common clown will work out real well.
That would be a ecumenical matter!!!
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