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
EI adventure begins
I ordered the EI starter kit today so I will post update pics over time to track improvements(hopefully). I will also be adding plants over time so even just as a progress post for myself it will be nice to have for review and hopefully it will prove useful or interesting to others
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As the tank is lightly planted I will not be using the full dose will be starting with 20 ml EI and 8 ml easy carbo lights for 10 hrs 2 x juwel T5 1 day and 1 natur.
Here are some plant pics, can't remember name of red plant but used to be large and healthy. Planning to plant 2 of the same plant 1 behind stones where the aqua basis is and 1 just in gravel to see if there is a difference.
They are a bit sad looking aren't they
Rgds
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I can recomended EI but i think you will need co2. Try we will see
Can't ignore advice from someone with that tank.
I think there may be some old wine making stuff around, maybe a DIY co2 could be tried. Gonna try with easy carbo for a while and see how it goes
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set a frame for a 3 weeks and observe you plants. take a picture every week on whole tank and separate plant species. it'll be easier to see progress
also I'm dosing micro elements 2/3 of recommended as plants really cannot suck up all the phosphate and micro elements as recommended
this is how it looks now, taken just now with my phone (i know, crappy pic, no excuses.lol)
but the saturation of co2 and ei in water does work well for my plants
pearling like a mad. but to get there it may take month or more. plants
need to adjust to everything you providing them with
I am planted!
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Here is one example
Rgds
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Here is a look at the red plant that was almost dead, I moved it as I though it was getting very little light. It is now planted in gravel only as there is no aquabasis in this part of the tank.
And here is a full tank shot
Sorry about quality, phone pics.
Rgds
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