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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

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20 Dec 2017 01:11 #31 by robert (robert carter)
Replied by robert (robert carter) on topic New project
Further to a previous post i have infact emptied the bigger tank on the upper shelf and painted the back pain of glass the result is a much better colour blue . The flowerhorn in this tank is called Frank and he certainly is quite a charachter. The platium angel have spawned yesterday iin there new bigger tank . The two small tank just have a couple of goldfish in them just to keep the filters going , hopfuuly i will just have to turn the heaters on and then use them for raising angel fish fry , if we ever get that far . Am looking at some way of plumbing a hot 4 cold water suppy in for doind water changes . Usi g buckets at present and its a bit of a pain . So any ideas would be great

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22 Dec 2017 20:24 #32 by Bill (Bill Hunter)
Replied by Bill (Bill Hunter) on topic New project
I would suggest it is because in one tank there is only water between your paint and the lights while the other has water and glass between the paint and your lights. It's an optical illusion. If you had a way of aiming the lights a bit more directly at the background it will show up blue. The light that is reaching the floor-underlay is more scattered and reflected, possibly too much to actually light the blue background. You also have some air between the background and glass and some of the light is bouncing back and forth between the glass and background. The result is that your tank lights can't bring the blue forward through the glass and it looks black.
With the aquarium lights off this effect is reduced and the incidental light is coming into the tank directly toward your background. If you can't aim your light a wee bit towards the background then you might be able to move your light, forward a bit, beyond the centre line.
Another reason could be the paint. If it's a gloss, then it's reflecting even more and absorbing very little light; the result is it will look black.
It's very difficult to put into writing so I hope you can understand me :) I've seen similar results with those backgrounds you buy. If they are glossy and not fully up against the glass they vary in shade and colour and in some cases can have black patches where it is a few mm from the glass.
Bill

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22 Dec 2017 21:01 #33 by robert (robert carter)
Replied by robert (robert carter) on topic New project
Hi Bill i totally understand what you are saying and indeed think you are correct , i have since emptied the tank and painted the back pain , cant believe the difference really shows off the colours off the flowerhorn . Thanks for your imput

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26 Dec 2017 16:09 #34 by Bill (Bill Hunter)
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Glad you're sorted :)

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