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
Survey- Water test
If you could come up with a tool monitoring ph and nitrate in multiple tanks, i will be REALLY interested
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The major problem i have is testing nitrates, have difficulty reading the coloured charts and testing the water for it in 20 tanks is a real pain
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I have an electronic tester for ph which works fine for what i need.
The major problem i have is testing nitrates, have difficulty reading the coloured charts and testing the water for it in 20 tanks is a real pain
The nitrate test has always been a problem.
In the days when I was pleading that fish keepers test for Nitrates (esp for breeding marines), not many people took notice and I knew of no other fish keeper testing for nitrates at that time (apart from Graham Cox's group at Waterlife).
My own made nitrate test kits of then are much the same as used today in principle.
The nitrate test is not even a nitrate test kit in all of the common kits that I have reviewed............it is a nitrite test kit; and that means that it cannot be, by default, over sensitive.
That it is a nitrite test kit also means that spurious zinc or other reducing agents with a RedOx potential sufficient to reduce nitrate to nitrites will potentailly give false highs.
It is not worth my while to make my own pH meters anymore as 30 euro is so cheap............but electronic nitrate test probes are still quite pricey, but they are much smaller than my old electronic systems and probably much more stable than my old nitrate selection probes.
ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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hi Ian I see cheap ph electronic tester on ebay these are only 5 0r 6 euro are they any good , I tend to be old school and use API liquid test kit , although I dont test so often once the tank has matured and settled down . Will electronic tests work if one is using organic aqua in the tank ?. thanks Robert
@Robert………I would prefer to keep my local aquatic shop in business rather than save 20 quid
unless it were for a product that I desperately need and local shops don’t stock it.As for the Organic Aqua think, I find the publication by the owners of Organic Aqua about it messing up tests to be a bit questionable from a scientific point of view (let’s face it the producers blurb would be better left off the product tbh). But that is a debate for another topic. OA should not have any unexpected effects on an electronic pH probe over and above any other treatments.
I’ll also re-bump the Ops post here…………
Hi guys,
I`m running survey to help me with project on water testers. It is 100% anonymous and no personal data are collected.
It will take less than 3 min.
Survey link: surveyhero.com/c/4f90eb9
Much appreciated!
Tom
PS: if you already filled out survey via facebook post no need to do again
Ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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