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
Silly Question....Maybe
Angels would not be my cup of tea either. and they are some times reguared as nippers of fins. so i would not really say they are suitable for guppies as company.
A trip to the libery or a good surf is called for one of the nice fish i seen lately was the clown killi but availability and suitability i don't know but :evil:an excuse for another tank maybe?
Mickey
Mickey Wallace & Cath Woods
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Good idea to get her that tank for christmas......
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The rule of thumb is 1 cm of fish per litre - that gives you a total of 240 cm of fish i.e. approx 50*5cm fish !...
While you don't want to add all these fish all at once to build up your bio-load progressively, there is plenty to choose from as suggested in the previous posts.
IME, I wouldn't mix a siamese fighter with dwarf gouramis. It wasn't a nice experience in my tank... Plus, the dwarf gouramis fatally ate one of my guppies' tail. That said, maybe I had unfriendly specimens !
I'd personally continue down the route of tetras and livebearers (swordtails, plattys, guppies...) with a few bottom dwellers to do some cleaning up. I have a tank with a selection of these and there's always something happening in it!
I hope this helps.
Valerie
PS : By the way, questions are never silly !!
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Normally its 1 inch of fish length to 12 sq inches of surface area allowing for the adult length the fish reaches so then an adult length 4in fish would need 48 inches of surface area.If the fish was broader then that would have to be taken into account and increased,stockier fish,more feeding,more waste.
Modern aeration and filtration increase the amount of fish we can keep in a tank but i,d rather err on the side of caution especially at those unexpected times when Mr ESB pulls the plug.
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