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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

Stomatella snail

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30 May 2016 13:23 #1 by Jonlate (Jon Late)
Now my nano tank is set up and running, I want to include a few sanills.
As the title post says I am looking for a few stomatella snails, as they are small, have a small shell so hopefully won't move rock about to much, and still will clean around.
It are these good things to have or should I avoid them?
where can I get 1 or 2?
Thanks again for your advice.

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31 May 2016 04:32 #2 by Sukahn (Shane Doorley)
These are quite rare to get lol, unless they come in as a hitch hiker. I think i have a few in my M90, had a good few in my M60 before i took it down and think i got a good few of them into the other tank.

Maybe some cerith's would work, they dont usually move things around much. or Nassarius Snail (Nassarius sp.) they are small and will eat almost everything.

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31 May 2016 12:46 #3 by Jonlate (Jon Late)
Replied by Jonlate (Jon Late) on topic Stomatella snail
Thanks for that, I will look into those two instead. From what I read the stomatella are a bit like MTS for freshwater...either you love them or hate them and they breed like ummmmm snails?!

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02 Jun 2016 01:19 #4 by Sukahn (Shane Doorley)
They breed every couple of weeks, well mine did, had a few hundred babies varying in sizes in my tanks. You just have to notice when they are doing it and turn off your powerheads and pumps to give them tiem to float into gaps of rocks and they will come out eventually.

I have a couple of baby turbos in my M90 now and well, about 8 of them so im a proud granddad lol.

Get a fast runner blue hermit as well for the tank, they are quick and cover most of the ground in a day in a small tank, they run rings around the place in my 5ft, just make sure to leave him some shells in a corner, otherwise they will eat snails (turbos and ceriths mainly due to their shell shape)

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