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
Buying a quarantine tank.
I bought my quarantine tank (ClearSeal 25l) + heater + filter for an approx. total of €85 in a pet shop in Galway. I did not bother with a light.
Such a tank can take a few small community fish at a time (unless v. territorial - IME : 2 Dwarf Gouramis and a Siamese Fighter is a no-no!).
The disadvantage, I find, in such a small tank, is that it requires a small daily water change in order to keep the quality at a good level.
The good thing is that it is still small enough to place on the kitchen counter without requiring too much re-organising or building a house extension !
Happy shopping
Valerie
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I will probably have to go have a look in Sandyford so!!
What volume should I be looking at? 25/60/90??
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Anyways....I have read that you should keep an extra filter in your main tank. A simple sponge filter is enough. When you need to set up a hospital tank you transfer water from the main tank and bring across a heater and the sponge filter which should contain the necessary bacteria...giving you a fully cycled tank...immediately!
Small water changes each day is necessary, em...and from what I have heard tonight some person was washing their filter in tap water!! Wouldn't advise that!!
My search is ongoing for a tank...found two or three on the buy and sell 75L for €75. Just wonder if its any good!
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