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
Water quality - where to check it?
Who that is in Wexford....I don't know off hand, but it should be in the telephone directory under the government departments section.
The Mg and Ca levels are those that contribute to your general hardness test, but there are magnesium and calcium test kits available.
Whether or not you need to add magnesium or calcium to you water depends on the water supply and what you want to keep.
ian
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I remember not so long ago the problems involved with the Galway water supply-it was well documented in the national news etc. My uncle, Professor Michael Hynes of NUI Galway reassured everybody that it would never happen again at a family function stating this, that and the other, but it did come back.
Them bloody academics!!
Dave
Oooh....inorganic chemistry academics you mean.
Better not have an organic/physical vs inorganic chemist debate though. 
My wife did one of her degrees in inorganic chemistry.....the domestic arguments where an interesting mix of subject differences at 3 in the morning as I was more of an organic/physical chemist (unless some inorganic stuff was useful in biochemistry). She's now an ex-Off-topic....I guess....but maybe not.
ps. I see your uncle is on the health and safety committee......so in us fellow H&S people sticking together.....I'll say always trust the word of a H&S person. We may not always be right, but we know what we're saying. Believe me.
ian
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Ian, can't get the smileys up on this dam computer, but I'm laughing out loud, believe me.
Dave
What's the difference between an organic chemist and an inorganic chemist?
The Inorganic Chemist retires with loads of pretty coloured crystals and loads of Papers;
the Organic Chemist retires with loads of useless black goo in test tubes but loads of patience.
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igmillichip
A joke from another academic disciplin:
- What is the best wife for an archeologist like?
- The eldest - the most valuable!
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Thanks a million. I'll try to get to the source of information in Wexford Borough Council. They shouldn't be affraid of releasing it as water in Wexford town is really very tasty and there is no limescale. I haven't been using de-limer products for a year ie since i moved in here. But I would like to check some other parameters to make sure if I need RO or not necessaryly.
igmillichip
A joke from another academic disciplin:
- What is the best wife for an archeologist like?
- The eldest - the most valuable!
(hope it sounds exactly the same as in original language version.)
....do you know any wives of archeologists?
I'm now with an economist.....and I have no interest in money: so another set of interesting midnight debates.
Many people would consider hard water tastes better than soft.....and magnesium is what gives hard water its rather tarty taste. But if there is too much magnesium then it may be just too tarty to cope with.
(and yes....tarty is a proper term for the taste of water and kumquats etc.....believe me, I know these things
)ian
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