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
tanks for racks
good news that you get to keep all your tanks
Are you making the rack yourself or getting it made? Would put a solid frame around the base of the rack to distribute the weight across the floor joists, assuming its a standard upstairs floor in a house. The weight of 6 tanks could to some damage to a floor unless the weight is distributed.
On the subject of using 6 tanks with separate heaters, filters etc, if your tanks all have the same water parameters etc, you could use a trickle system with a sump. Allow an overflow from the uppermost tanks on the rack to run into the bottom level of the next tank down, from that to the next tank and so on to the sump. Then you only need a return pump from the sump to the top tank or tanks. It can take a bit of playing with valves to get the system flow balanced correctly but it works and is used by some commercial breeders and also in fish houses. You could then keep an appropriate heater such as a 300W in the sump to maintain all tanks at a constant temperature.
You could set up a system of siphons with valves in the pipe work to control the flow rate. Once they are not set too far below the tank surface, you are not at risk of draining too much water and causing a flood if your pump fails or you get a power failure. Also need to ensure you have enough volume in the sump to allow for the volume of water that will drain from your tanks in the event of a power / pump failure. This way, you are not at risk of causing a flood and having to swim out of the bed
WOuld be worth looking at some of the details on sump filters in the marine section of the forum, will give you a better understanding of the set-up.Cheers,
Bill
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