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
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Read up on it and it I have the following concerns
First if its perspex then, firstly it will warp and secondly it will gather algae, and when i clean it - I'll scratch it.
But if I go with glass its heavy and hard to move around.
So I've decided to go with this design in glass
I'm going to fix the middle pain in place and then have the 4 flaps open and rest on the existing bracing.
I'll also added in holes for gas exchange and auto feeder
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So I'm thinking of them soft close toilet seat hinges.

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So maybe I need to rethink the design.
Let's widen the middle glass brace to the width of the leds, and make the 4 covers perspex. That way no light will get on the perspex.
And if the lid slams shut, there wouldn't be any breakage as perspex is so light.
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An example of one. Opti white should be cheap enough too, I got quoted 12 euro for 2 foot X 1 foot 6mm.
Marino, Dublin 9
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You can get glass trays that fit onto sliders...they work perfect.Don't effect my T5s...I can take a pic and show you? I Dont think they'd effect leds either?"Ive never tried Leds.
Didnt think of it....yet it was suggested already!!hmmm too much xmas outtings lol
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Shipping is 15, said I'd ask if anyone wants to get one also. I'll be ordering tonight
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I'm going to leave it with seahorse for now, I know they have rails, (they used it on my sump cover)
And I'll be going for opti white glass x 4 sheets. I'm expecting a bill for about 200 for it all.
But it may take some time to make - I'm told they are very busy at the moment.
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need to 3D design the lid for seahorse - so ill do that tonight. and picked up some rednose rasboras and some threadfin rainbows.
They look awesome

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Bought
Should last 42 weeks.
Also ordered my replacement uvc bulbs, and saw this on the lid front.
Is that fishtank made by Aquariums4life.co.uk?
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I've used alot of 3D tools, and its by far the easiest to make up something quicky
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Turns out ol Stephane was wrong again

Even though I thought I bought a female from him - hes actaully a male

and lol, there was so much going on with the tank i decided to keep track of it
poping over to seahorse in a bit to pick up some filter socks andcheck in on the lid blueprint
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thats where i got the image from alright
Aquariums4life is currently building my upgrade tank

How long will it take for seahorse to make your glass covers.? Aquariums4life will be delivering to Ireland on March 4, in case you want them to do something for your tank?

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Just an FYI guys, been dosing with Easycarbo for 2 months, so far...
No green spot algae
No bba
Alot of plants growth.
It's awesome

Costs a bit, but saves so much time in cleaning
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