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
Breeding tank filter, whats the best
i bought a second hand juwel 60 without seeing it working first,
but at the price i got it for i didn't care,after cleaning it and about to set it up i checked the powerhead and heater was working, heater fine, but powerhead not
so i walked away from it very disappointedbut when i thought about it i said if their were fry in the tank with that filter system they would get sucked into the filter system
so what filter should i use, i have 2 ideas i want to run bye yez
1. the sponge filter, i see a few shops using them but always thought they were sh1te i only use this in my q tank cause their is only 2 or 3 fish in it for a week or so if im getting anything new
2. now this might seem a bit mad but here we go.........
a eheim internal filter big enough to cope with the volume, BUT to have it sitting in a (fry box net)??
to me this would still filter the water and the fry can not get stuck in it
what do you think is the best option as the two angels with be their full time
thanks for reading and any suggestions would be much appreciated want to get this up and running asap
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You could cover the filter inlet with a fine mesh, old net maybe, or use a pop sock or the foot cut off tights or a stocking
what denier rating of the stockings would you recommend? are Penny's cheap ones as good as PrettyPolly.
More seriously though, the holes in the Pennys pop-sock 5 pairs-in-a-pack for a euro or 2 are the best as the holes are small enough not to allow fry through but large enough to not impede water flow too much and not cause the usual trapped air-pocket effect.
I'm sure the sponsors would prefer you to recommend one of the 'filter bags' though.
Ian
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think il go to wexford and get them nobody knows me down their have a vision of an episode of father ted in me head
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From quite cheap zeolite chips (about a tenner a box to treat an aweful lot of water) to specialist filters (polyfilters).
Many can be re-generated for continued use.
They are the type of thing used in ammonia gas-masks and remove ammonia from the water without any biological filtration working. You can get them in nearly all aquatic shops.
You can add them to a filter, or a filter-bag (or stocking of the right denier hole size
) or even spread them on the floor of the tank.I always have a stock in case of emergencies (eg filter breaks) or for transporting sensitive fish.
For a tenner.....it's not a bad addition to any aquarists first-aid kit.
ian
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