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
Basic plant buying question ?
Carefully remove the pot so as not to damage the roots too much. Then carefully remove all the material from the roots, usually rockwool, and plant directly into the substrate. If the plant has a very large or very long root system, this can be cut back a bit before planting.
A lot of plants are not grown submerged, and lose their leaves, growing new ones, as they acclimatise to being fully submerged. So don’t panic if some of the leaves seem to die off over the next few days, its normal and the plant will usually recover quite quickly.
Thanks for that
Does the rockwool have any purpose for the plants ?
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the dennerle plants (for example) come in both rockwool and another brown straw like media which is simply wrapped arould like a coil and easy to remove, rockwool on the other hand... well look up 'preparing plants for aquarium' and there are some prity decent video's on youtube to show how its done
which plant is it do you know? different plants require different needs to look their best while some are just dam impossible to grow without some previous experience...
dave
Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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The plant is called a Hydrocotyle Leucocephala.
Does anyone know if these get very big in the tank? I have a T8 sysyem and was told they should be ok in low light.
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