Wow! It is great to see such a positive response.

Welcome along everyone!

One of the main club building ideas is to work towards and club that adds value to the membership base.

Suggesting the where to get CO2 locally is a good example.
This saves you money. It also helps and saves local folks money that come into the hobby.

With 100 members, all these folks are much better able to track and hunt down cheaper sources for fertilizers, CO2, group buys for plants/ferts/DIY projects etc.

You are far more powerful as a group than as an individual.
A group also has a synergy about it, each member brings a unique set of skills to the group and can offer a lot of help.

Some might be experts at fish/breeding etc, or Discus, but know less about plants, some might know a lot about plants, but could not build a tank stand for the life of them. But.........another member might have detailed out a simple well design tank stand that saved them 100 pounds.............

You do not need to be an expert on plants to help folks a great deal.........

You might be thrifty and search for things, you might have good cabinet building skills, or have good testing and methods, or research based, or fish breeding etc.
Do not hide and lurk when you each have a skill set that's very helpful. As the plant experts will certainly be very willing to help you if you help them, with or without reciprocation, same deal for the plant swaps.

Together, you all will benefit.

Regards,
Tom Barr

I'm lee, I'm 27, GSOH and seeking a busty blonde.

I'm in Leicester and work as an IT systems engineer for lafarge aggregates

Been keeping planted tanks for 2 years now and still have problems with deficiencies. I'll host the first meet so you experts can sort out my tank hehe

Hi my name is Paul but for reasons far to boring to post I am better known as Slackey by everyone. I am 34 and not getting any younger! I currently live in Henlow Beds (about 5 minutes from Jimboo) where I am an Electrical Engineer in the RAF. In August I am moving to St Athan near Cardiff to teach new recruits to the RAF how not to electrocute themselves and become competent Electricians, the RAF's elite trade (anyone can make things go bang George )

I have been married to Tracey for 6 years and we have a 4 year old Daughter (Elysha) and a 4 Month old Son (Malachi). I have a Staffordshire Bull Terrier called Dodger and I am very pro Staffs, they are soft, gentle and reliable with kids, just the odd Chav gets one and teaches it to be aggressive and then when it attacks its in the news, arrrrggghhhh that make me mad

I have been keeping fish on and off for the past 25 years. I currently have a planted Discus setup with 2 Red Turqs, 2 Blue Turqs and 2 Red Pidgeon Bloods along with a small shoal of Rummy Nosed and Cardinal Tetras. I also have Georges old Nano which is not currently setup When I move I am planning on setting up a Discus breeding project, but my wife does not know yet so don't tell her!

Hi I'm James, if you haven't already guessed, and am 41 years old. Married to Maria with a 7 year old son called Philip living in Bexley, Kent. Spent my childhood living in Brussels as my dad worked for NATO. Started my working life working in a lab for the coatings industry. Had a change of career after 15 years as the site was closed down due to ever stringent Health And Safety regulations. Now working as a network manager for a smallish company in Kent.

Been keeping fish since I was 18 and have had everything from a goldfish pond to a 6 foot reef system. Got into planted tanks about 3 years ago and then discovered EI about 2 years ago. Due to time and space I only have the one tank which is a Rena 4 footer. Do have a little 2.5 gallon shrimp breeding tank as well though.

My other big interest in life is motorbikes. I follow the MotoGP and World Superbikes with great interest.

Hope to meet everybody sometime.
James

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Hi, I`m Dave Spencer.

I am 43 years old with three children (Amy 17, Alexandra 16 and Jake 11) and my divorce came through today after 19 years of marriage!

Originally, I am from Luton, but I have lived all over, including abroad. Currently, I live in N. Wales and work as Production Engineer in a power station.

I have been in this hobby for six months and had a tank for four months. I have a 120l EI jungle/testbed, a fledgling 60l Iwagumi and a fledgling 24l mountainscape.

I much prefer the look of Takashi Amano`s scapes from the late 80s and early 90s to the popular, orderly Dutch Aquariums.

Dave.

Well I'll add myself too, more forums to look at when I should be working!

Names Sam, 26 found TFF just over a year ago, and now have two planted tanks, both of which aren't really up to much but Ive learnt quite a bit from TFF. Hopefully moving house in a few weeks and getting married on 9th June (wedding list is at John Lewis, number 239882 - gotta be worth a try )

Looking forward to seeing where this project goes

Sam

Should have got the wedding list with AE or ADA

Im daz, kept fish tanks intermittently and with not much thought really then after another break from the hobby started up again february last year and discovered the whole planted tank thing.

Currently just about to redo a couple of nano's and am in the process of changing plants and scape (for the 4th time) in my 40 gallon

I consider the 40 gallon to be high tech, overtank luminaire, pressurised co2 injection (when refills are accessible) ei dosing, aqua soil and power snad substrate and the two nano's are more of a new labour enterprise seeing as they will follow what I call the third way, being more central in approach between the two poles of high tech and low tech lol