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
Change lighting
if you know the Arcadia bulb to fit a juwel 240 it would be great, might get a chance this weekend to have a look at them. Cheers
2Poc
Going up north tomorrow
might get a chance to go over tomorrow afternoon, did you see anything nice that would go with a few yellow labs, maybe something blue?? Did you get anything nice yourself??Peter
Would be well interested in the photo of the tank with the leds, what size tank do you have and how do they mount the lights in the tank.
Sheag
I take it your tank is not a juwel, i find its one of the down falls of the juwel that you cannot switch the lights seperately and that you cannot get to the control gear to rewire them to two seperate swithches. Similar to you Sheag i would like the option to see the fish under less obstrusive light and see what they get up to, thats why i am thinking of led lights. Also i would like to set them up on timeclocks so that there is not just a switch on to full lights and a switch off to no lights, a nice dusk soft lighting would be nice, well that my 2 cents worth
Cheers lads
GB
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2Poc
Managed to get over to Petstore on Saturday, your bang on, there were some very nice fish over there. It was tough to leave empty handed but i knew i would be tinkering with the tank till i got it the way i wanted it so i resisted the urge to get a bag full:(
There was a fish in the top right hand tank of the cichlids tanks section, it had a black like body about 4" in lenght and had like blue spots down the top side of his back, very impressive looking fish, would you by chance have any idea what it is?? it looked like a Maingano Cichlid going by the pics stuck beside the tank but i wouldn,t be a 100% as there were several pics that looked very similar. The lad i was talking to said a Maingano but i got the impression that he was not quite sure himself.
Must have a look at a few pics of your new fish, how many do you have in your 400 litre now?
Cheers
GB
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48"T8=36w
48"T5=54w....roughly 150% output/wattage
also it's not the brightness...
Sure T5 high output is the way to go. Dont forget it also uses more power, ie the wattage. The real advantage is the tubes are smaller, so you get more into the lid of a tank... Though the older ones have a higher efficacy, ie they give more lumens per watt of electricity.
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