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
Fr. Jacks own Malawi Aquarium
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The round thing is an one euro coin, stuck with sellotape to give scale to the tank and fishes, plus the fish were bought from a Jewish Aquarius's, and by putting the coin there makes them swim to the front.
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Yes you guessed right, I am not using my hand to the make the Malawi shore waves.
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The sound of the waves is very relaxing at worked the blue sponge in the weir helps stop the slurping noise, but to work right it needs a value set on 40% restriction.
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The red valve is deleiberely tuned to 40% which very very slightly raises the water level just over the weir height this prevents air going down, to the sump and rude noses, the other valve leaving the pump its to reduce the total flow to stop a washing machine episode.
Happy New Year
from Fr Jack
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platty252 wrote:
Try fine tuning your filter to reduce Nitrate.
I have a cut down one litre water bottle full of fine sand in the sump acting as a de nitrating filter, but either its does not working or it needs to much larger to have any significant result, probably the bio mass of fish is too large for such a small volume de nitrating chamber, I sound very American they use big words like refrium to impress in stead of sump while I use de nitrating chamber which is really a mineral bottle full of hydrogen sulfide and fine coral sand.
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Your best bet is to add another bottle of sand. So off to the beach with ye with your bucket and spade.
You wont have to worry about the smell of rotten eggs (hydrogen sulfide) or ammonia now the little one has arrived. It's stinky Nappy's all the way.
Congratulations.
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