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
cloudy water
a few weeks ago i filled it and used the aqua start for a quick start,then added my fish a couple per week i have 1 cray fish 1 blue lobster until today:( 1 very large pleco 2 paroon sharks 1 ruby shark 1 red tail shark 1 flying fox 2 oscar's 3 large tinfoil barbs 2 albino cicllids and 2 other cicllids all fish seem very happy together inside the tank is crushed coral some drift wood and some rock also 3 live plants im using a bluewave07 filter but the water is very cloudy,i have done a couple of small water changes i dunno how much i can change at 1 time,will this clear up itself or do i have to treat the water??? any advice would be greatly accepted,thanks
simon
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Its not terribly important to be too accurate with how much you change,but generally 20-30% per week is acceptable.A lot of the species you have in there are very 'dirty' fish,needing a bit more cleaning up after.
What I must say,and I'm not critisising you here,but that tank is far too small for what you have in it.Do you know what the species of cichlid are that you have in there,this could prove to be very important for the future of the tank and its inhabitants.IMO the 2 oscars alone would be enough for a 300ltr tank.I would do some research of each species you have in there,looking at maximum potential sizes,aggression/compatability,water requirements.You may find,as hard as it will be,that you may have to rehome a few of them.Maybe a damn good excuse to get another tank or two
How long has the tank been running?
What filter are you using?
always on the lookout for interesting corys.pm me if you know off any!
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