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
what to use
As for the 'bucket-at-a-time' vs 'all-in-the-tank'.
There's pros and cons for both.
Don't add the complete tank's treatment to one bucket; give a portion of per bucket (eg a 2 gallon bucket and however many drops to treat 2 gallons etc).
That is quite an tedious route, but it does have advanatages:
if the treatment is added before the water, then the heavy jet of water when filling the bucket will really get the foaming (or stirring-up) done.
If, however, you have a good aeration system in you tank (eg a high power filter with an air ventura) then sumply fill the tank and add the bulk of treatment in one go.
These conditioners should really be very well mixed (ideally in a nice aerated system) to get the best of them.
Some, as said above, are a bit pongy (but anyone ever use to developing photographs would be quite us to that awful smell.....yes....photographs existed before digital cameras were invented.....
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Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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