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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

MICROBE-LIFT / 7.5 pH Buffer

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14 Oct 2014 12:17 #1 by Q_Comets (Declan Chambers)
Hi

Has anyone used this or API proper PH. I do not need to use them but was asked about them so thought I would run it past the panel here.

Thx
Q

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14 Oct 2014 22:37 #2 by JohnH (John)
Q,
I didn't reply to this earlier - but whilst I haven't used either of the ones you mention I did try, many years back, the one sold by Waterlife (I think it was called 'Proper pH').
It was meant to bring down the pH to 6.5 and keep it there.
I was very disappointed but do remember it was excellent at making the water cloudy, but little else.
This could have been because I was starting off with a pH of 8.4 and just maybe it needed more 'doses' to achieve the desired result.

I seem to recall someone posting that these pH reducers were fine for maintaining and buffering water which was already at the level required - but that they weren't so 'hot' at getting it there in the first place.

Perhaps we can get some more views and experiences from other users?

John

Location:
N. Tipp

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.


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It's a long way to Tipperary.

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