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
peat dust
i'm planning on using a sponge filter so using peat as a filter media won't be an option.
if I use peat balls, is it difficult to maintain a consistent pH/hardness? or is it just a case of...
SQUISH SQUISH "nope, still not right" SQUISH SQUISH SQUISH "ah, perfect!"
and keep it clean, folks!
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Fishkeeping the Only way to get wet and wild
currently 25 tanks, and breeding is the aim of everything i keep
location:Limerick
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That is where air-driven sponge filters come in very handy
But I also have power filters in some tanks needing high water flow that also have peat. I use the JBL peat for that as it stays in a nice chip for quite a white or use a stocking (not too high nor too low a denier rating though).
Peat will tend towards lowering the pH even if it doesn't do it, it will also attempt to lower certain types of hardness (not all hardnesses though).
Even if the peat fails to lower the pH or the hardness it will alter some water chemistry, and it will give some important acids into the water even if you don't see a change in measureable pH.
ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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