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
Overhead sump
Instead of using an air uplift system, I decided to utilise an old Juwel 600 pump I had lying around. That pumps into a plastic window-box type planter sitting on top of the tank with a tray of filter floss and then other assorted media. The water simply overflows out the other end of the planter and back into the tank. I've planted some Pothos plants in the media as well, to help reduce nitrates etc.
I've had it running for about 2 weeks now and I'm happy with the results, although I would rather have placed the pump much lower in the tank. The slate stuck to the back made that impossible however. The plant went in a week ago and has already shown considerable growth and I'm going to add another later.
I've built another overhead system for my hillstream tank and I'll be starting that up later this evening, so I'll post a video of that too. I think I designed that one a little better.
Thanks again to Stephane for talking me through his DIY system
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In this picture you wee it is a plastic planter that runs about 1/2 the length of my 450L. Since it is narrow and is at the back it does not compromise my access to the tank. Only thing i did was to drill a hole and silicones a piece of PVC pipe for the return to the tank. The rest was filling it with biomedia and plants (you can see the growth and these were all small cuttings).
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you can see how black the floss its and that is 1/2 day's worth of gunk (we overfeed and its beef heart). I change the floss morning and evening.
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Just to illustrate the thread (never got around to do it ) here are a few pics of the sump i setup:
In this picture you wee it is a plastic planter that runs about 1/2 the length of my 450L. Since it is narrow and is at the back it does not compromise my access to the tank. Only thing i did was to drill a hole and silicones a piece of PVC pipe for the return to the tank. The rest was filling it with biomedia and plants (you can see the growth and these were all small cuttings).
No wonder it's called Devil's Ivy
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Nice read, I'd like to do a project like this. The missus has put a plant pot on top of 1 of my tanks so why not add a sump to it too!
As a system it has many advantages; good aeration, nitrate removal, ease of maintenance, easily customisable... CHEAP
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"The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life; your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you.They're freeing your soul."
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