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
Hydor co2 kit
I get mine filled at a Beer Gas facility, they refill it for £5 over here, i'm not sure if the regulators would fit on a normal Co2 Bottle, if they did that would solve a lot of your problems, will have a look tonight see what size the thread is.
Mike.
Know what youmean about plastic, not the same
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Thanks for the info, i didn't realise the solenoid goes directly onto the tubing. I had it in my head that if it did go in between the tubing the pressure of the Co2 would bulid up and spit the tubing out.
Thats grand now, i can pretty much go for any kind of solenoid, i don't have to wait ages for hydor to make one for this system.
Hi Peter
Heres a shot from one of my own setups, the solenoid is attached about 2 inchs away from the regulator with just a small section of tubing seperating them, the solenoid is attached to the tubing with a sort of clamp (clamp aint a good word to use here but you get my drift I hope) which is built into the solenoid, you basically tighten it, so no fear of the back pressure blowing the tubing off. The solenoid is at the bottom section of this picture. I think once the CO2 tubing on the Hydor unit is the regular size then this should not be a problem to attach the solenoid. The regular size is just the same as normal airline tubing whatever that is, 6mm I think
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