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
bulging rio 180
That would make me very nervous, but good to hear that it's common and nobody here has had any problems. I have nightmares about one of my tanks cracking and pouring up to 500l into a room.
I'm sitting here surrounded by 4 tanks totalling around 600l. I wonder what the house insurance position is if a tank ruptures? Would an insurance company consider it reasonable to have 600l of water in a room?
Or maybe that's a questions nobody here wants to consider.
Reminds me of a dream I had recently of my tank bursting & putting water, glass & rocks all over me. I'm still nervous whenever I have my back to it
Good look with the tank Nomad!
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....I,m actually still using the internal filter and heater more as afine particle polisher with sponges and filter wool and a water softening pillow because my gh was off the scale at 180ppm mg/l......Yes the plasic strut is attached to the inner of the plastic tank surround and the strut held to the tank with a black sealant,its the black sealant that is coming away from the glass.....p.s nearlly got five numbers on the lotto last night,would have been nice,new tank but definatly not a JEWEL for sure .........
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A gap was starting to appear between the lid and inner frame,on further investigation i noticed that the silicone on the strutt seemed to be ok but when viewed along the length of the tank at the top the front panel glass had 2 bows forming either side of the centre strutt...Browsed the web and came across a site for Juwel spare parts www.urmstonaquatics.com/juwelspares.html, couldnt believe they were selling replacement brace bars for Vision and Rio tanks to stop the front and back glass from bowing.Surely then this is a major problem with Juwel tanks moving away from the old brace and strutt design,it now seems to me that the double bow that i have in my tank glass proves this and that the glass thickness needed and should have been increased to take the extra stress and pressure of a tank full of water......
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