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
Vallisneria in a pot?
Ger
What do you call a three legged Donkey?
A Wonkey....duh ha
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Either way you still have to cut the runner ☺
Yeh I know man but it would be much more manageable to do it if they are in a pot,that's my thinking anyway...........I'm just wondering even though they are easy to grow would they grow reasonably well in a pot or not?
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I have potted vallis and others in terracotta pots, John innes number 3 compost (make sure it has no herbicide or pesticide added) and a thick layer of gravel on top. To stop the soil being washed out. Works well
Cheers for that dude.........and did it grow the same as it normally does when planted in tank substrate were the runners would run wild all over the place?
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Ger I didn't even notice it was your post, was thinking of you the other day did an order from lamp specs think it was you put me onto them! They do send out runners but it's basically like a spider plant rather than a full on substrate invasion, cover the hole in the bottom of the pot with an old sock or something on the inside, then the runners have to go out the top of the pot and you can just clip them off before they grow back down to the tank floor if that makes sense. Only sold the last of your white tail acei a couple of months back got out of the Malawi!
Ah Johnny whats the craic?......yeh Lampspecs,they are great for cheap bulbs aren't they
........ah yes the Acei's ha,now that was a lot of fry you left with 
gasyeh I am gonna put some plastic in the pots so the runners only route would be up through the pot were I can snip snip (Georgie Burgess moment
).......I just wanted to make sure they grow decent enough doing it like this before I invest in a load of them that's all,and I think I have some of that John Innes compost buried somewhere down in the shed so i'll get going on them in a week or so,cheers dude What do you call a three legged Donkey?
A Wonkey....duh ha
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