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
220 L Tang Tank
After relocating to London I managed to get my new tank up and running. It's a fluval 220, externally filtered with a Fluval 405 and an eheim 1040, standard pair of 200w heaters and some T8 lighting. The background is fibreglass fake liverock which I got an outrageously good deal on, the substrate is a mixture of inert play sand and crushed coral for buffering.
The stocking is:
2 Pairs of adult red compressiceps (can't have a tang tank without these lads)
2 juvenile compressiceps (gold and will be moved on in time, they arrived before I got the adults).
12 Cyprichromis Leptosoma Unita
3 adult Hecqui (1m, 2fm)
3 (1m, 2fm)adult ancystrus and about 8-12 juvenile
2 juvenile lithobates (yeah I know Malawi, and they will have to be movedon in time)
Once I get a decent Camera I'll get some more shots esp of the mature compresiceps, best looking examples I have ever seen and I'm a Calvus/Comp nut.
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not to mention the benefit that the fish can burrow etc and there are no falling rocks to be worried about.On the stocking front, thanks again for the comments. I have three adult male Cyps and I suspect one other sub dominant so agro for the moment is a little subdued, that said the tank is about a foot too small to have three males. One occupies the front right of the tank, another the front left and the third male rules the back side of the 'rock' formation.
The king of the tank is the wild Hecqui which is a beauty but a bit aggro really, they're starting to breed soon so I think things will get interresting.
It's not heavy at all, and it's full of small mesh covered holes to allow water permeate and drain out but prevent fish from swimming in. The nooks and crannies are perfect for the ancystrus I have esp as the surface area keeps them all busy. The space behind the front you see in the shot is offering refuge to the Comps which is great for them (they're spawning 2 weeks after I got them)but a pain in the ass for me as I hardly get to see them even at feeding time.
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Can't wait to find out where to get that background
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