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
Help! Filter opened!!!
If the output flow rate were closed off and the little start-siphon handle were pumped hard enough then that would also push water out of the seals (and may permanently damage them).
But maybe saving ones marriage is of top priority here.
So, to help prevent a major disaster in the future it has to be a compromise between wrecking the carpet and wrecking a filter that can be got for 130 euro !!
On the intake pipe of the filter, drill some holes in the intake pipe just below where the pipe goes into the water. If the filter leaks, then it will only take out so much water before the siphon action stops.
That may wreck the filter, but it will do less damage to the carpet and any partnerships.
For other advice on keeping fish and a partnership going, please contact the Agony Aunts here on the forum (I'm sure many have plenty of experience
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Rune the seal under luke warm water, and run it between finger and thumb. Then use a damp good qualty q-tip to run inside the plastic recess on the filter body to clear any grit.
Just another possibility.
@Sheag.....I would have no problem being the forum Agony Aunt.
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