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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

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29 Jul 2016 21:45 #1 by nomad (pat murphy)
Just came across this ad and wondering has anyone heard of or any experience or imput in using this product......www.adverts.ie/fish-tanks/sodium-thiosul...nation-500g/11012111

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29 Jul 2016 21:56 #2 by robert (robert carter)
Just had a look at google and cant find anything about it being used as a water declorinator, it does produce sulpher as part of its cycle when added to water, it also states that pregnant or breast feeding women shouldnt use it . I would myself be very weary of using something unknown like this ,

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29 Jul 2016 22:11 #3 by wildlifebiology93 (Sean O'Sullivan)
From what I remember from my chemistry labs is that Sodium thiosulfate will neutralize the chlorine in your water.
If your water contains chloramine it will only remove the chlorine part of chloramine.
This triggers a reaction that causes a release of ammonia .
This is causing you another problem in your water and you will have to treat for ammonia removal When using Sodium thiosulfate as a dechlorinator.

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29 Jul 2016 22:33 #4 by nomad (pat murphy)
Thanks for replies,think I will stick to my tetra aquasafe..

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30 Jul 2016 01:29 #5 by igmillichip (ian millichip)
Hypo (for us who also have done photographic developing used as a fixer)

It is a very common dechlorinator used in a number of common commercial aquatic dechlorinators: so its use is well known and well supported.

It does a good job of "dechlorinating" chlorine..............but a poor job of dealing with chloramines.

Get the stuff off the shelf in your LFS.
I would not even recommend people buying raw Sodium Hydroxymethane Sulfinate when you can get that in Tetra AquaSafe (OK............so AquaSafe is not cheap: but it is the very best of what is available)

ian

Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.

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