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
Hi All !
I started my fish keeping adventure when i was a kid (11 or 12). My dream then was to have a proper fish room, anfortunatly i run out of enthusiasm after about a year.
Now, 20 years after i'm back in business
Last year my girlfriend unconscious of my youth dream bought me beta male (she name him Leon) for my birthday and said we'll keep him in 5L. wine glass 
2 weeks after we borrowed 15L. plastic kid set. After another 4 weeks Leon got new home, 200L. tank which is my main tank now, but not only one 
In last 15 months i was hooked in planted tanks. In april this year i found a real bargain, 7 tanks of total volume 680L. (3x 160L + 2X 70L cubic + 1x 60L cubic) plus two boxes of staff for as little as 250 euro, couldn't miss it. My girlfriend was 
when i get back from trip to Dublin 
In the meantime i bought 2 x 54L. tanks for 60 euro. Also 60 sheets of 6mm glass (82cm x 42cm) from Dublin (diesel + glass = 100 euro) which will give me another 12-14 90L. tanks.
Thanks Gog our house is big enough, there is 2 living rooms and one of them will become a fish room within next few months
WHO SAID DREAMS DOESN'T COME TRUE??? At the moment 6 tanks are in use, 200L. main tank in living room planted with Leon, 30 neons, 6 clown loaches and 3 sucking louches, and upstairs temporary 160L. planted, 2x 54L. + 60 +70 as a farm for in-vitro plants all powered with 7kg co2 bottle and DIY ferts. I have around 20 species of plants at the moment.
Pictures and more info about progres on fish room soon.
Regards
Peter
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Temporary fish room (upstairs)
160L.
My little farm.
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160L. long + 160L. + 70L. cubic
... and some more glass to build some more tanks
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Your a cute leitrim lad comin up to the big smoke grabing the bargin of the year
Sooorrrryyyy
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that's some collection you have there nice 1 get me more pictures!!!
Regards,
SM
Juwel Vision 260-
20ltr-Fluval Spec-
19ltr-Fluval Chi-
Keep The Water Fresh-
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Something fishie going on here
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Hi welcome to the forum beautiful tanks bit worried about having so much weight up stairs doh know a friend Of a friend who did this and lost everything including the tv and couch Which his partner still go's on about some 10yrs later (I think the moaning of the 10+yrs is worse)
THX for advice, i'm worried about it as well
that's why i'm setting up fish room down stairs as soon as posibleby the way, does anyone know how much weight 9x2 ceiling can hold, (room - 4,5m x 2m, 9x2 going across every 60cm, 18mm OSB + soild timber floor on top) ???
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Andreas
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