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
crack in tank, can it be fixed?
got it home and as we were getting it out of the car, it hit the tow bar
can it be fixed? was thinking about replacement glass cut to size and being sealed into place on the inside?
I have included some pics so you can see the crack. its the left hand side panel near the bottom.
hopefully it can be salvaged
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will be a cleaner job as well and totally get rid of the crack
just lucky that the tank is salvagable.
will let yas know when we're doing it, and will be back for more advice!
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thanks guys, we've decided to replace the panel
will be a cleaner job as well and totally get rid of the crack
just lucky that the tank is salvagable.
will let yas know when we're doing it, and will be back for more advice!
I think in the light of subsequent replies you have chosen the right option.
I have effected repairs in the manner I described, only ever 'end' repairs though, but in all honesty they never looked anything other than 'botched' - which is fine for in a Fish House, or Fishroom but not particularly attractive in a 'display' environment.
If you follow platty's guidelines you should be fine.
I would just add something which he has omitted - after you have the glass cleaned of unwanted old silicone you should rub the glass over with something to remove the oily residue there might be from your fingerprints, silicone is very reluctant to adhere to anything the least bit oily. As detergent is undesirable to fish-life I have found that Methylated Spirits on a clean cloth does the job pretty well.
Hope this helps,
John
Location:
N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
ITFS member.
It's a long way to Tipperary.
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