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
Need A Refresher Course!
I've been keeping fish for about 20 years so I'm not really a beginner. Started with freshwater, went into Marines, back into freshwater, had a total wipeout thanks to some Denisoni Barbs. Then I went back into Marines where I've been for the last few years. You might have noticed I'm in the process of selling my Marines and going back into freshwater (for the last time)!
So I want to pick the brains of the freshwater experts here as I go along. At the moment my Marine tank has been stripped down and I'm in the process of removing the coraline algae and rinsing out the whole tank.
My first purchase is going to be substrate.
I'm going for a planted Amazon tank, a big shoal of Rummy noses and maybe cardinals or another tetra and a few other fish that I haven't researched. I'll definitely be keeping a handful of Corydoras Catfish, species as yet undecided and maybe an L number plec or 2.
Bearing that in mind what substrate should I be going for? I've used silver sand in previios Aquariums and I'd be happy to use it again, but I fancy something different this time.
I'll post my next questions when I have my substrate sorted!
Here's one of my previous Aquariums. . . . . . .
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Here's a photo of the school aquarium,
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Now if only I could find some decent plants in Dublin
Had a look in a couple of my fish shops (I only use a couple), and neither had any plants worth talking about. Hopefully a new delivery will arrive soon.
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bloody lovely and what i was looking foralan, there is purrfect pets on the longmile road, stephen gets tropica plants in and can order what you want (look up tropica.com get the codes from the e-catalogue)
seahorse just round the corner from red cow have had good plants and massive variety in before, but the last few times they were un-labelled (i had a very specific plant list and am pants at plant id so i need the names)
i think fins fur and feathers in swords do tropica, i know there were some lovely mother plants there last time i was up that way, but i haven't been there for a while you may ring gavin
i would not trust internet sites for anything other than dry goods, and at that you really do want to go for very secure shopping from a reputible seller
Location: Portlaoise, Midlands
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I spotter a rather large piece of twisty wood yesterday so bought it. I rearranged the tank to accommodate it. Here's the way the tank looks now,
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I'm just in the process of setting up a new 100g tank and I'm looking at an amazon style with light coloured sand and bog wood. What type of sand/gravel did you get and where did you get it if you don't mind me asking. Also what size tank do you have. I'm a few weeks behind your set up.
Unsure whether to fix the artificial rock to the back of my tank. It's pricey and don't want to buy it and then not like it, does it look good/real and do you think the fish pefer it to a plain glass background?
I used silver sand and I got it in Lisburn. I'm sure it's easy enough to get anywhere. My tank is similar size to yours, it holds 468 litres. I think that's around the 100 gallon.
I don't have artificial rock in my tank, but I have had it a few years ago in a previous tank, one of those living back grounds. I didn't really like it and ended up taking it out. I have pictures of it. I'll put a couple up later when I get back to the lap top. I think the fish look better with a dark back ground, whether they prefer it or not is another thing!
Edit, there you go
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I didn't like it, I neglected the tank and eventually ripped it out and started again.
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