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
a little light reading regarding the vote
....you cant catch fish without losses wether it be sport, food, or personal entertainment. i understand why you are getting all emotional but it is falling on deaf ears. we are talking about fish here and although we cant promise the fish will be ok, you cant promise every fish you buy will be ok as you just dont know. if you are gonna start getting all "holier than thou" you should sell your tank/s as locking a fish up so you can watch it is cruelty, whether it was bought from breeders or caught in the wild it is morally wrong to confine an animal to such conditions. fishing has been around a lot longer than fishkeeping but it laid the foundations so you can have your fancy fish swimming around your room.if you dont want to talk fishing dont come into the angling section, simple. if it does get deleted i shall urge people to post in the "General Nature Conservation" section as our native species are and could be under threat....loopholes are fantastic
Check out the angling section, it is fantastic
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when we do win maybe we should try set up a section for john called SAVE THE WHALES or something
little knolledge can be a dangerous thing
Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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the majority are ruling at the moment
when we do win maybe we should try set up a section for john called SAVE THE WHALES or something
little knolledge can be a dangerous thing
as i am not a fisherman these days, i stayed out of the vote for this section. if i had voted i would probably have opted to keep the section as i have many angling friends who have a keen and active interest in general conservation measures, so i am aware of the pros as well as the cons.
but the above comment (i would hope, tongue in cheek) reminded me that not all people/fishermen are willing to accept constructive debate without resorting to patronising and demeaning comments.
so i agree with johnh, we have to keep the debates clean, and respect that not everyone will be of a single mind.
30 tanks specialise in african cichlids, angelfish and various catfish
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