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
Am I ready for RCS?
Ammonia-0/0.25
Nitrite-0
Nitrate- 50/60ppm (trying small water changes)
KH-60/6
GH-260/13
PH-7
From readign they can adapt to these conditions right?
My tanks very heavily planted and has a strong flow and water agitation, now there has been an algae bloom as its low tech el natural, aka soil base and medium lighting 2 watts per g
anyway beside the point, I have tried some tester cherries,some cheap ones and well started with 10 and for the 2 days following reckon I could see half, after a water change 2days ago and looking today I see a moult but only one shrimp, the rest have disaeared and there arent many hiding places I couldnt see or to hold them all. Oh and fellow fish tank mates are perfectly fine
no bodies either and its tank mates are little borrares brigatte, mosquito rasbora so they arent the culprit. Is it maybe nitrate poisioning? As I said I am trying small water changes to reduce it as its quite high and my plants dont seem to be absorbing them as I thought
should I cycle a little longer before adding again? also (no previous experience what so ever) they never sat still or on the substrate which is pretty dense, always floating about and landing randomly, this normal?
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yeah nitrates i reckon dont help being so high and the soil may be constantly leaching ammonia, but its not bad considering it was off the scale to start, ill have to keep an eye on it, will be cycling and chanign water for a while longer
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survivors, or hopefully brave ones are out and about and feeding well so its looking good
will be calling soon omen for some cherries
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If you want to maximise your population, stick a sponge on the filter intake. I always find 50+ shrimp living in my external when I clear it out. So I figure many more must get mangled on the way into it.
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