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
Fluval Ozaka 260
With the help of gunnered72, Day 1 after a massive clean and set up to see if anything leaked, just in case!
Everything was great, so next was a move to it's pride of place in the sitting room, another test situation, you can also see my old 90 litre tank beside it
Inaugural fill with substrate in situ
First full fill
Everything moved across from the old tank, I also added 3 roots cable tied together as the centrepiece
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And the refill from the kitchen sink, easier than buckets!!!
Female krib
I added a reed fish, first time keeping one
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Another WC, at this point I've added about 30 flame tetras
Here's my pride of place, just seconds after being added, sold as a breeding pair
I also added more plants on the same day
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And yesterday, the Winemilleri decided to show off
I've nothing much more to add, but I am on the look out for a back up filter tho
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"The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life; your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you.They're freeing your soul."
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Great looking tank. As someone said, reedfish are great escape artists so all gaps need to be closed. I lost one when it climbed into my Juwel powerhead. I'm sure you know already that the reedfish and BGKF both get pretty big and are predators; you might want to keep a headcount of the tetras
Thanks Johnny, a big step up to the little shellie tank you saw. I'm lucky at the minute that the reedfish and BGKF are not big enough to fit anything substantial in their mouth just yet
looks good. I like the Osaka tanks. Where did you get the Wimerelli ? I had 2 breeding pairs about 3 years ago and gave fry to pretty much anyone that wanted some as I had hundreds of them.
Beautiful fish.
Seahorse had them Damian. Sold to me as a breeding pair. I say sold, I bred some kribs and I got a credit note to the value of them. Hopefully the tank isn't too busy for them and the breed some
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