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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Has anybody here set one up?What size tank(thinking a 3 or 4ft)?What species?I'm thinking of garra flavatra,sewellia lineata,etc,and something up above,white clouds,or some sort of minnow or danio.Maybe red chrystal shrimps also?I'm picturing rounded grey river rocks and a hell of a powerful waterflow with lots of aeration.
I will research more when I get time time,just wondering if anybody had any experience or ideas here.
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I would be interested in getting a surface fish, so I will keep an eye on here for any suggestions.
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There seems to untold loaches,danios,minnows,etc,(remember BAS!)its a matter of what is available here,but our LFS are pretty good at getting what we want if we ask.
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Was typing as avonmore answered.I havn't as yet decided.It will depend on tank size.But maybe a Tetratec ex700 external,and a fluval 4+ internal?Ideally using venturi on the filters would be good,to save running an airpump as well?I thought running filters would be better than running just a powerhead?All suggestions welcome.
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www.loaches.com/articles/river-tank-manifold-design
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I havn't as yet decided.It will depend on tank size.But maybe a Tetratec ex700 external,and a fluval 4+ internal?Ideally using venturi on the filters would be good,to save running an airpump as well?I thought running filters would be better than running just a powerhead?All suggestions welcome.
Dave, What sort of filter set up would you use with the manifold set up on a 4foot tank?
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I would think this filter would be near enough for a hillstream tank,maybe use the next model up,the PF4(ratings,PF3 800ltr/hr,PF4 1000ltr/hr),cost 60e and 70e respectively,so to be honest,for a 3 or 4ft tank I would see no point in going into any DIY or the like,just bung in a good filter and maybe a powerhead.We will see when this filter clogs up a bit with use,obviously its only new,so will flow better.
Hope the corys and acaras will be half as happy as the yellow tail congo tetras are with their new current.
I had a look at a very nice hillstrem tank last night,it used the Juwel filter and a powerhead,they did the trick well,and there were some lovely fish in the tank,as there are in the many other tanks in the room.
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