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
Scratched Glass - how to get rid of scratches.
I might have THE solution for you, it is a bit of work but works perfectly !
I had the same problem a couple month ago, i was cleaning my "new" tank and some gravel got into the sponge, that scratched my glass
Very sad, as the scratch was about 10cm long and very visible, i searched on-line to find a solution. By the way the toothpaste trick is just nonsense, you'd have to polish for days before beginning to see any difference... so is salt...
But i finally discover what you need, and it is called cerium oxide !
After watching a lot of video on youtube and all i decided to give it a go. I do not know if i can post a link of the companies that sell this stuff in Ireland, but i'll send it to you.
To prove that it works, i'll post some pictures.
I originally wanted to post it in the diy section but never got the chance to... silly me...
That product come as:
3 pad of different roughness,
1 bottle of cerium oxide mix
1 spray bottle
2 pad for the power drill
1 power drill adaptor
all for around 20€ if i remember correctly
Ok this is the original scratch...
now i used the first pad, it looks scary i know but wait ! (used about 5 min)
now 2nd patch (used about 5 min as well)
ok now the finer patch, took around 10 min
That is where it get intensive work, polishing with the cerium oxide took me around 1h30-2h.
took me an other 30 min just to polish everything nice and well and now that the tank is running you would see a brand new glass.
All for 20 bucks and around 4h works (still...
) i think it is well worth it.The only down side to it is that you need to have a power drill and basically be up side down in your tank to put enough pressure on the glass. Mind also that the friction will heat the glass and that you have to let it cool to avoid any cracks...
Hope that helps you, and others !
Inza.
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Gonefishy - Did you ever go ahead with this and if so how did you get on?
Sorry i know you asked Gonefishy this but i'll throw in my pennies worth...........I've used this stuff on scratched glass to great success.........i used it on a lightly scratched glass tank shortly after reading inza's very well illustrated post and it worked a dream
........A lot easier than i thought it would be and it took me about 3 hours altogether but that was doing it at a very leisurely pace 
Ger
What do you call a three legged Donkey?
A Wonkey....duh ha
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