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
Light. How low can you go
The back and two sides were blacked out and netting across the top.
There was no light over it, it got no direct sunlight and the only light it got was from some downlights in the room. There was also a shelf about 50cm above it.
The water wasent changed but was topped up each week. The sponge filter was checked every couple of months to make sure it wasent stiff (no longer working)and water tested at the same time.
It had a 6 male,2 female killifish and 2 shrimp.
When i emptied it recently it had 16 killifish, one fry, no shrimp and millions of snails.
The water was as follows;
ph 5.53, Kh 0ppm, GH 12ppm, Ammonia 0, nitrite 0ppm, Nitrate 20ppm and phosphate 0.5ppm (a bit high)
As you can see the fern had grown and the Valli's was little stumps but still green. The snails had done a lot of damage eating the plants.
So how much light do these plants need since the only light was room light penetrating through the front of the tank.
Darren.
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