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
Scaping Query - Wood
Most of the sponsors, if not all would stock wood like that. The gnarly roots on the left of the tank are redmoor root. Depending on where you are based, it can be easier to get your hands on the stuff. The larger pieces look like redmoor too, but large pieces can be very expensive.
There are a lot of native trees that are perfectly safe to use in the aquarium too, the only thing is you need to ensure any piece of wood for the tank is well dead, dry and clean before adding to the tank. Oak, Ivy, Apple, Pear, cheery, beech, ash, blackthorn, Hazel to name a few
Some will need soaking for some time before adding to a tank too; alternatively you can fix a piect of slate to the wood and weigh it down with substrate.
Cheers,
Bill.
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Hi,
Most of the sponsors, if not all would stock wood like that. The gnarly roots on the left of the tank are redmoor root. Depending on where you are based, it can be easier to get your hands on the stuff. The larger pieces look like redmoor too, but large pieces can be very expensive.
There are a lot of native trees that are perfectly safe to use in the aquarium too, the only thing is you need to ensure any piece of wood for the tank is well dead, dry and clean before adding to the tank. Oak, Ivy, Apple, Pear, cheery, beech, ash, blackthorn, Hazel to name a few
Some will need soaking for some time before adding to a tank too; alternatively you can fix a piect of slate to the wood and weigh it down with substrate.
Cheers,
Bill.
Nice one Bill, didnt realise apple blackthorn and hazel where safe too, how long should it be dead and should you strip the bark on these or is it ok to leave the bark on??
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