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
new tank
I think cars may be brought into play in the next few weeks
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have to keep an eye on her from now on, shes not in the house all day only feeding time and when she wanders in an open windowPlease Log in to join the conversation.
When the heater and filter came I quickly noticed the pipe diamater on the filter was to big even tho I had emailed the seller of the heater for the right size I needed, long story short he wanted nothing to do with me when I contacted him about the problem, in stepped James (irish-zx10r) who made me up some adaptors and sent all I needed to get me up and running cant thank you enough mate below is some pics I took of the adaptors
The filter itself was very handy to set up the hardest part was running and cutting the pipe for the heater, I still have some trimming to do on them I will do that when I take out the juwel box and some of the filter media to the new one in a few weeks time, so far so good its running about 2 hours and no leaks and the water flow is great in the tank as well
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looks very tidy well done Something fishie going on here
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Anyway this is how it looked before I started
I took most of the rock out and moved my air lines and filter pipes to where they needed to be I then spent 2 hours for putting in rock stepping back adding more stepping back removing rock blah blah blah also while doing this the little feckers in the tank where nipping at me constantly, finally I got to a stage where I was happy I have to say its like having a brand new tank all over again and I can't wait to get my black background on and a few more chunks of rock, here's a few pics of how it sits now, the water is a small bit cloudy
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the wave maker is great it's not to powerful only a 2000lph but does the job doesn't churn up the sand at all, I'm going to get one more for the far side as its a bit dead where the old filter was, loads of saving to do now for more rock and the wave maker Please Log in to join the conversation.
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Gona take the toy story one off and just have an all black background, I'm still keeping the figures and have ordered a few jake and the neverland pirates figures
lol you will need a big ship and u will need to grow a Beard
that cartoon is on every morning, my little lad loves it and keeps him quite
the singing gets to me i going around singing the songs all day after hearing them.
Something fishie going on here
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I think it was one of my red RubinsI spent an hour moving the sand around and getting right in there with the hover, by the time I was done half the water was gone and the sand was like new again, I then set out putting the rocks back in as the big pleco I have now was having trouble getting around, I made one big structure in the center of the tank again this took the best part of an hour to get it right and to make sure none of them would move or fall, I let the water settle for a bit then slowly added my fresh water back in turned everything back on and stud back to admire the tank
The fish seem to be a lot more active and love the caves and tunnels i made and the pleco has lots of room now to move about, I did a very shot video of it hope you like
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