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
my rainwater set up!
This is my wheelybin which I've cut a 3/4" hole in the top to accommodate
The upside down 2ltr bottle with the end cut off,
Inside the bottle I have the bottom I cut off the bottle inserted
Into the neck of the bottle with some fine sponges and then topped off with
Filter floss,
And you wouldnt believe the carp it catches.
I clean this bi weekly,
I also have a stocking stuffed with mosspeat to help soften the water!
I use 19ltr water cooler bottles for the transport in and out of my shed and to the house,
I fill a couple of bottles the night before and filter the water with the 2ltr bottles again bottoms cut off
And upside down,
This time there filled with fine sponge,fine gravel,active carbon
2 layers of each!
I use airhose piping for this,
It takes around 3/4s of an hour to do one bottle!
I do 2 at a time.
Then when there filtered I put them in to my home made hot box
With a 50w heater in each one with a cap on each,
This works quite well at keeping the water warm and not have the heaters running all night
Out in the shed.
This can be fairly long winded but is quite inexpensive way
For using rainwater
And on the plus side the rainwater seems to be IMOA
The best tool for breeding soft water fish
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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I would imagine that wheelybins would be made from more durable
Materials considering there outside 24/7
Mine are anyway!
Now I'm sure there not designed to have a couple of hundred
Liters in them either,
But that said,
They are well able for a decent amount of abuse!
Being lifted by the back brace up in to
The back off the bin lorry
While full!
And the bin men act like they hate the bins
The way they treat them
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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nice write up and i'm sure it'll help many who are toying with the idea of setting up a similar system
good work pal
Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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I've tried to tinker around with water collection like this, the problem i had was with heating the water but the 'hot box' you have really seems to do the trick!
Thanks a million for sharing!
Niall
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or possibly keep a spare heater on standby to keep temp above freezing point, if needed just put it in the wheelybin
nice write up and i'm sure it'll help many who are toying with the idea of setting up a similar system
good work pal
+1
Good work plumber
If you bring the bottles into the house overnight, they'll come up to room temperature.
Adding the water slowly will be natural with the temp diff.
Or you could add the heaters when at room temp.
It takes more energy to get the first few degrees up, its easier when the temp
is that bit higher. Thus saving more on the electricity.
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From what I remember they are around 110 liters each
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Ger
What do you call a three legged Donkey?
A Wonkey....duh ha
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always on the lookout for interesting corys.pm me if you know off any!
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Most DIY places have this sort of thing. Lidl and Aldi do specials, so keep an eye out
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Location:
N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
ITFS member.
It's a long way to Tipperary.
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This was the one I have in mind...
Next time your this way a certain door Factory on the N4 have loads of these and sell them off after use for very little, Just make sure it hasn't been usesd for fuel.
260l South American Community tank
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I recently got a icb(white)
And it really came to light how much
Crap comes off the roof
I could see how much smaller particles were getting past
The gutter filter I was using.
No amount of sponge or filter floss was stopping it
So I'm hoping to use gravity to my advantage
With a pre reservoir drum
I only just set this up so il keep you guys posted
On how this works.
It's basically a 20ltr drum with the rw pipe about
2"s from the bottom of the drum with a wedge of filter floss
To defuse any flow a hopefully keep the smaller particles
Out of the icb.
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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