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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

Wavemaker for a pond

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19 Aug 2016 17:25 #1 by robert (robert carter)
Hi , am just toying with the idea of putting a wavemaker into the pond , i would hope that with more water movement it would make the koi more active and help adding more body musele . Now i have looked at wavemakers on line and they all seem to use suckers as a means of attactment which wont work on a pond liner , so my question is what size wavemaker on a 1000 gallon pond and how to attach it to the side of the pond . Your thought lads and lassies. Robert

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19 Aug 2016 20:04 #2 by hammie (Neil Hammerton)
Honestly Robert
I think a wave maker would be the wrong way to go! You'd be safer off imo with a water pump angled to suit yourself! You might want it with some oscillation or some kind of a retarder on the flow to interpret it slightly and give it a pulsing effect!
Wave makers wouldn't be powerful enough to do the job and securing to the pond liner / side wouldn't be easy

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19 Aug 2016 21:23 #3 by robert (robert carter)
Hi Hammie , think you might be right , i have a couple of spare pumps of different outputs so might have a mess around tomorrow to see if i can get anything to work for me

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20 Aug 2016 09:53 #4 by hammie (Neil Hammerton)
Should work well enough.....
Also it will help reduce the risk of algae etc with more moving water!
Let me know how it works out

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20 Aug 2016 11:07 #5 by robert (robert carter)
Hi Hammie , just installed a 8000litre an hour pump into the pond it has a directional output nozel so have it angled at about 30 degrees up , within seconds of turning it on the koi were playing in the flow , so reckon thats job done , its wired into my outdoor control panel so can be turned off for the winter . Thanks Robert

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21 Aug 2016 10:08 #6 by hammie (Neil Hammerton)
Surely instead of removing or switching off in winter, you'd change the use to just break the surface and stop the pond freezing over?
I'm planning an outdoor tank for goldfish! I have a pond filter that I want to utilise for it....
I'll be using a second pump on a spray bar type system for breaking the surface over the winter to reduce the risk of freezing over!

I have a lot of hurdles to overcome, least of all getting her permission and getting electricity outside safetly!!!!!!!!

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21 Aug 2016 18:31 #7 by robert (robert carter)
Hi Hammie , i heat the pond during the winter ,but only to 7 deg c , this prevents freezing and keeps the koi slightly active preventing the risk of ulcers from just lying on the bottom of the pond

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