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
hatchetfish
and as long as you don't have a tank on a low cabinet. they make zebra danios look like pearl divers by comparison 
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I have two external filters running in my aquarium, in one of them I use a surface skimmer (i think its called). This keeps my top layer clean from debris as well as this thin shinny layer that sometimes appears.
It looks like this
So I made a few modification to prevent fish from being sucked in. In fact, yesterday I bought some cheap filter sponge to add it to the top of the filter, as I have to stop the filter I decided to change the polishing pads of my 305. I dissasembled the filter and pour some water into the toilet so it wouldnt spill all over the place, then I replaced the pads and put the filter back together. Added the new sponges to the top of the filter (I might take a picture later when I get home if anyone is interested in seeing it) and got the filter started! A few minutes later I was about to flush the toilet and guess what I found inside.... one of my neon tetras!! I quicly put him back in the aquarium, the poor fella got the fright of his life! I did a head count and everyone seems to be accounted for.
I can't understand how they can sell a product like that, in fact, I lost 3 kuhlis and 4 hatches because of that filter skimmer! I am hoping the new mods I made will prevent more fish from getting sucked in
The filter is on "probation" at the moment, if I am not quite convinced of how is working I will remove it and revert back to the original intake.
The other internal filter, a jbl e701, intake is immersed.
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