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
Good evening.
One immeadiate problem I have is that my light unit on my Juwel Trigon 190 has stopped working. This is the second unit as the original one went after about two years. Last time I just replaced it but this time I decidied to try and fix it as I am really annoyed that if I buy a new one it will be the 3rd in 5/6 years. By the way I emailed the 10 retailers on the Juwel website and only 1 responded quoting me €125!
(I replaced the ballast and it worked for about an hour and stopped again. I think it is between 22-28 months old but have lost my receipt so I cant try it under warranty.
Anyone know how to fix these things?
I have one light bulb behind the tank but the fish are only getting 20% of the light they normally get, is this unhealthy for them?
Any advice, much appreciated,
BOB.
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the lads here are well use to jewel light units and their problems, unfortunately you have been struck down with a common jewel syndrome but could also give an opertunity to upgrade from t8 bulbd (if thats what fitted) to t5 bulbs
what fish do you keep?... when you do get the lights sorted don't forget pic's
dave
Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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Ger
What do you call a three legged Donkey?
A Wonkey....duh ha
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Sean, I took out the Vossloh Schwabe ballast (type ELXc 236.208) and tracked down the distributor for Ireland who said he would only order a box of 25. I then brought the ballast to my local elctrical supplier who gave me a similar ballast. I cut out a slot, numbered all the wires (an electrician neighbour of mine checked it for me) and used silicon to glue the cut out section of plastic back on.
Lept for joy when it worked and went for a pint to congraulate myself on saving €125 only to return an hour later to a dark tank once again
Sean, I would take you up on your offer to look at it for me, very kind offer indeed. I work in the city centre but could call to you in Navan, if that suited you better?
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Thanks to the help of Sean (does the IFK website have a Member of the Month award?) , after 6 weeks my tank is illuminated again and I have not given Juwel a cent. Photos are not great but the Trigon 190 really is a great looking corner tank. My fish levels are a bit low so I need to buy a few new fish and maybe some types that I have not had before. As a new member to the website I hope to pick up some tips.
I will let you all know how I get on with my email to the MD, Chairman and founder of Juwel regards their sub-standard light units.
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A couple of days after getting my light unit fixed (courtesy of Sean) I lost a big Tiger Barb. This evening I noticed a lot of light beige bread crumbs stuff on the gravel, see photo.
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I checked the water and it was cold, 13 degrees. I took out the heater and the red glow was visable about an inch below the top. I unplugged it and cleaned it so I could see which way to twist the bit at the top to increase or decrease the temperature. It is out of the water, turned as far as it will go to PLUS and after 10 minutes (albiet out of teh water) it is still totally cold.
Is it a freaky coinicidence that my heater has gone a couple of days after my light unit was fixed?
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On Monday I got my light unit fixed (courtesy of Sean) after weeks of messing around. On Tuesday I lost a big Tiger Barb. Tonight I noticed this beige bread crumb stuff on my gravel (see photo).
I tested the water and it was cold, 13 degrees. I pulled out the heater and the red light was visable about an inch from the top.
I unplugged it, cleaned it so I could see which direction to twist the plastic stem at the top to increase the temperature and after 15 mins it is still totally cold.
Has my heater now gone?
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I got a new heater of €17, Pet Bliss iin Wicklow wanted €50 for a Juwel one. I did a water change, used a gravel cleaner and finally my tank is back to normal.
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