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
thinking of a new filter ....
). The extra power drawn on one tank is nothing really on the electric bill, and it gives piece of mind in case one does pack-up over night.I never run a tank on just an external filter alone.
JBL are becoming a strong force in recent years, and at present my newer filters have been JBL (internal and external) as they come as standard with a good range of attachments and there are loads of additional items readily available.
Things do change over time, some of the classics and best of by-gone days in other things are starting to lose out now-a-days......at one time no one ever beat Tetra foods and test kits (not so now), Rena air pumps put everything else to shame (except for the piston pumps), and Eheim may well start to lose its grip with the best filters.
As for a filter being "too powerful" for a given tank or "bigger is better".....that all depends on a number of things including the type of fish to be stocked.
If you have Hill-Steam loaches then a JBL 1500 spray=bar on full in a 54 litre tank is going to be perfect for them, but not if you have African Butterfly fish in the tank !!
ian
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If the OP is going to new filter, then might as well have that and the present one going in the tank for ever (well.....until the end of the Mayan calendar, or the filter break down etc
I never run a tank on just an external filter alone.
JBL are becoming a strong force in recent years, and at present my newer filters have been JBL (internal and external) as they come as standard with a good range of attachments and there are loads of additional items readily available.
Things do change over time, some of the classics and best of by-gone days in other things are starting to lose out now-a-days......at one time no one ever beat Tetra foods and test kits (not so now), Rena air pumps put everything else to shame (except for the piston pumps), and Eheim may well start to lose its grip with the best filters.
As for a filter being "too powerful" for a given tank or "bigger is better".....that all depends on a number of things including the type of fish to be stocked.
If you have Hill-Steam loaches then a JBL 1500 spray=bar on full in a 54 litre tank is going to be perfect for them, but not if you have African Butterfly fish in the tank !!
ian
cheers ian , great advice as always ..
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