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

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10 Nov 2009 15:04 #1 by nailsgrant (Steven)

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HI all,

Newbie on the block.

I have been given(for free) a Juwel Vision 260 that I plan to convert into a Marine aquarium.
Down the line I would like to have both fish and corals. I have done a huge amount of reading over the past few weeks on filter and protein skimmers etc etc.

This is where I am at. To start off, I am going to purchase live sand, probably 5 - 10kg of live rock. Thinking of going for the eCO PRO 2036 external filter. Will probably buy the water mixed out of the shop unless anyone can suggest a way to save money. Kills me to spend 80 odd euro on salt water. Would Organic Aqua solve this problem for me or is this only for fresh water.
At this point I will put in a few hardy fish.

Over the next couple of months I plan to put in a protein skimmer and upgrade the lights so that I can have coral. Does anyone have a link to where I can but the lights for the juwel tank. Can see them on zooplus but just not sure exactly which ones will fit. How do the lights work on the tank. In the fish shop they seem to have fluerescent bulbs and also normal(white) type light. Can anyone explain what each are used for.

Thanks in advance.

Steven