donated fish to crumlin childrens hospital

no quite sure if this is the right place for this but here goes.

if anyone has any kind of cichlid etc that they are selling or are free to a good home, could you please get in touch with Gerry Evans through the site as he has asked for fish to be donated for a new fish tank that is being put into Our Ladys Hospital for sich children in Crumlin.

Not sure exactly what fish will inhabit it so if you have got fish to donate please ask Gerry first if they are compatible.

Thanks

Why don't we just collect some money and pay for the fish rather than getting some sort of a 'community tank'together? Those sick kids deserve a decent tank to look at and not everybodies left-overs. I have been up there on a number of occasions (thankfully not my own kids). You can count me in. I'm sure one or more of the sponsors will cut us a deal on the price of the fish/tank/decor.
What size is the tank and who's doing the maintenance on it?
We could also stick a sign on the tank, thanking the sponsors and promoting the clubs. Joint effort here would be nice.
And before the fighting starts again on the site and I'll receive pms I can do without, I'm all for cichlids. Nice Malawi set up with plenty of colourful fish.

Holger

Well said Holger,I will be more than happy to chip in a few euro.Agrre with all you've said there.

Dave

Yep.
Either or.

Stick me in the pot for a few quid great idea Holger. They looked after my Daughter superbly when she was down with melingitis.<br><br>Post edited by: steven, at: 2007/08/27 17:03

how do people propose to do this?

could i suggest a thread with what people are prepared to give and perhaps some of the sponsors could give a price on the stuff so that people know how much they are required to give.

then there is the matter of how to go about getting it bought and transported to the hospital. perhaps the sponsors could keep it for someone to collect in bulk and transport!

good idea folks. Count me in for a few quid also.
is someone going to maintain the tank ?
is there a tank already ?

As I understand it and Gerry can correct me if I am wrong. There is already a very large tank in Crumlins Childrens Hospital that he is contracted to maintain. He does not like charging for the fish he provides and is asking for anyone with suitable fish that have outgrown their current homes to donate them.

The only photo of the tank which contains a stainless steel sculpture model of Dublin is here, third photo down, before the fish were added.

www.recirca.com/artnews/305.shtml

I think he also mentioned there were two new smaller (still probably very large to us) tanks being installed and he would be looking for fish for them too.

Could we have details on the size of the tanks and what's supposed to go into them? I'm quite prepared to have a whip around in the SAS and I might get some donations from work.
I think it is important to know what we are dealing with here first. I am refusing to get involved in a big discussion of what fish are going into the tank(s) since I would have no possibility to give a hand with maintenance and Gerry should be in charge since he's got to do the work.
I have no objection to people donating fish if they are on the stocking list. Fire away, boys and girls. But what I wouldn't like to see, is that everybody dumps the fish they don't want anymore into those tanks. I'm in no position to give away any fish at present but would like to help. I imagine a lot of people are in the same position. I would be grateful to Gerry if he could post what fish he's looking for. Then we could see what members could donate of the required fish and we can then start collecting for the remaining fish.

Just my thoughts

Holger

Holger great idea i can't donate any fish at the moment unless he wants some tankbusters, but i be more than willing to give a few quid even if the donation is not for fish and is made to the hospital from our clubs, it would speak volumes about the people within this organisation and promote peoples thinking on fishkeeping in Ireland after all these children are the future of our hobby.

Stick me down for 20euro to kick it off.

Hi everyone

In regards to crumlin hospital i am away with a build on site tank till wednesday night. so when i return i will explain all about the up and coming tanks in crumlin and thanks nessa for putting up a post.

I'm good for a few quid as well. Let me know how and when.

Can one of the admins stick this post into the news section? Probabaly more people will read it if it is posted there

Good idea - Moved !

Valerie

thanks valerie for moving the post. As Gerry says he will post what is needed and then anyone who wants to get involved can. good man Gerry for suggesting us fishkeepers get involved. They were great with my son and I can see a few others have been well looked after there aswell so whatever, whenever count me in.

Yep lets help any way we can . I see how my kids react to the fish thing so lets put a bit of JOY into these kids . Im in in any way I can .

Paul.

Count me in too.

Hi Everyone.

Just a little about the tanks in Crumlin Childrens Hospital. There are 3 tanks at present one is 7 foot x 6foot x 4foot high created as an art project by a paul greg and comissioned by waterworld to build the tank.

www.waterworldaquariums.com/portfolio/aquariums/aquaria.html here you can see some pictures, There is also one in casualty and one in johns ward.


The children get great enjoyment from the large aquarium and seeing the baby cichlids and the catfish swimming around.

The aquariums in the hospital are changing shortly the pet store in drogheda and myself have donated a wall aquarium for casualty, i also am getting a trigon 190 for another ward. I supply free food and on ocassions except cichlids for the tanks.

i have only taken over ownership of waterworld in end of may and am still finding my feet running a business.

I wish to tank john , darragh owens, and derek Doyle for donating fish over the last 3 months for the tanks.

I asked Crumlin if i could try and raise some money or sponsership for the upkeep of the tanks and they agreed.

i hope to get posters on the large tank explaing about what is held in the Aquariums. there also will be information explaining where the fish clubs in Dublin and around Ireland meet.

What i would like is if anyone has any ideas on donating money for the upkeep of tanks please pm me or ring me on 0876623180 and i will pass on details.

I also hope practical fish keeping will also run a story on crumlins tanks as it is unusual because the buildings in the tank represent sunken Dublin.

The spire, croke park, busaras,liberty hall.

RE: Donations
I think a very easy solution to this would be to set up a paypal account.
People coould donate money directly to it, which you can then take down to your bank account, or preferably (for all I assume) to a new separate bank account.
You don't really want the bank account details published for all to see, and the paypal one provides a degree of separation from the virtual world to the real world. I would have no problem ata ll donating regularly to such a set up, indeed I have been looking for a while for a way to set up a regular but still voluntary donation to Crumlin. Crumlin is where my younger brother went when he was sick, such a long time ago now.
Anything that brings happiness or mere amusement to those poor kids is a capital idea Gerard.

Paypal is one way to go. I wouldn't have a problem paying into a bank account either. Whichever way is more practical.

One things on my mind, though. And this is purely from a fishkeeping point. How in the name of God do you keep the srainless steel(?) inside the tank clean? Personally not my taste which is not up for discussion here but I would have opted for a more natural decor. Never mind, I'm sure the fish are quite happy in it.<br><br>Post edited by: apistodiscus, at: 2007/08/30 10:10

the stainless steel stays clean with no problem once a year we get into aquarium in wet suits and give steel a light rub.

As i explained the tank was designed as an art feature by a paul Gregg an artist we were then too design aquarium around the features.

Nice tank, its worth alot of money with the limmited hood space they are probally using floresent tubes? That really bad news for the kids that have a number of nurological problems as the frequency of the light is the same as the brain waves and cause ceisures (fits) unfornately I have first hand experince with this with at home with one of my kids.<br><br>Post edited by: Fr. Jack, at: 2007/08/30 11:49

Father jack

the aquarium is lit with t5 lights above and at night with spot lights underneath.

causing no problems for the children

regards

gerry

Another thing the main aquarium also has underwater camera which are recieved by all the televisions in the hospital so the very sick children can see the tank.


Look i will talk to chris anthony and nessa to come up with a plan for the tanks in the hospital.

Amazing set-up Gerard fair play to you and your crew excellent piece of work have seen the big tank in person a couple of weeks back and its amazing.

I was going to suggest paypal as well. If you transfer amounts over $100 its free. The only thing is that Paypal take a cut on all transfers.

Tanks look really nice ..love the idea of tv cameras. I wonder if there is any way of putting in a webcam and linking it up to the site.

Count me in. I spent a lot of my childhood in that hospital.

platty252 wrote:

Count me in. I spent a lot of my childhood in that hospital.

So thats were all the fish went.

Gerard Evans wrote:

Father jack

the aquarium is lit with t5 lights above and at night with spot lights underneath.

causing no problems for the children

regards

gerry

Hi Gerry,
my 3 dear old daughter has dravet snydrome and we have jsut come back from Paris and met Dr. Dravet, the tank is only safe to childan that are not effected by fits.

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Television sets with remote control enable people to adjust their set from a distance and are therefore useful. 100Hz television sets will almost entirely solve the problem, or alternatively, sets with small screens (less than 14\&quot;) will help.
Factors precipitating seizures in photosensitive epilepsy apart from television flicker include sunlight reflected off wet surfaces or through leaves of trees, or seen when the person is moving rapidly past trees or railings illuminated by sunlight shining from the side. Lights such as fluorescent lighting may also induce seizures.<br><br>Post edited by: Fr. Jack, at: 2007/08/31 12:59

I would like to thank anyone who said they would support Crumlins childrens hospital.

I would like to thank the pet centre in drogheda who responded by donating a 1 meter wall mounted aquarium for the casualty department.

The Pet Centre
Boyne Shopping Centre
Drogheda
Co. Louth
Ireland