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
URGENT: cory sterbai eggs: what to do next
cant wait for these guys to get big, am bouncing between selling or keeping....
need to test water to see is it safe to do a few water changes a week for these and the leleupi but just cant be arsed i'm stuck to the sofa and scrubs and the laptop are on
Location: Portlaoise, Midlands
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well i should know this from my chemestry a levels. i know salts in acidic/alkaline solutions act as buffers. i will stop with the tonic salt for a while and see what happens. i will also test taps after dechlorinating
Not always.
It depends on the type of salt.
Common cooking salt (sodium chloride) is a salt of strong acid and it will not contribute to the pH, but it will have an effect on the pH measurements and it will also have an effect on the dissociation of the acids or bases in the water (and that may by a secondary affect effect pH).
ie it is not a pH buffer. Is the tonic salt you plan on adding normal sodium chloride?
Salts or weak acids or weak bases will, however, not only change pH but will buffer the pH once an equilibrium is set-up.
eg salts of weak acids generally increase pH in neutral water (because salts of weak acids are alkaline); salts of weak bases will generally reduce pH.
A good buffer is a mix of the weak acid or weak base with an addition of the relevant salt of that acid/base.
Now, to the serious bit......selling your first baby sterbai?? no way. Keep them.
It's not as if you've just breed 5 million Tilapias.
Sterbai are great fish....I keep them with high-temp Discus and will low 20s fancy goldfish. Much more active than most Cory's. If I choose to have any corys then sterbai come first.
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wow someone concentrated far more then me in class!
yeah its all coming back. i dont want to add too much to my water i got a riddle off kev (sound as a pound) to get the stones out and when i re-do it, it should be closer to neutral, if not slightly acidic
yeah justin we could mix the lines up, just give your ones time. i've had mine 2 years now. since the first spawn they have been at it 3 times, 5 fry off the 2nd and none off the 3rd (was 8 eggs found is all)
did big water change and threw in a couple ice cubes last night so hopefully getting some presents tonight after work
Joey, the A-level curriculum doesn't really do a good job at explaining this stuff (the leaving cert is even worst
). I had an added bonus of the UK taxpayer paying out lots of money for my chemistry education.....so a good reason to concentrate.Have you managed to watch the complete spawning cycle yet?
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