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
Video Competition - it's time to give it a go.
Here is a brief rundown of the Rules (such as they are) - we'll run this until the end of May and see whether it has been any sort of success...or a dismal failure.
Please restrict the video length to a minute, or shorter.
The stipulation is that it has not been shown on this - or any other Forum or website (so must be an entirely new clip, although the subject matter can have appeared previously - just not the competition entry video clip).
The subject matter must be Fish, or Fish-related.
One entry per Forum member.
No 'pro' software effect to be used - better explanation to follow, along with other 'rules' as and when we think about this a bit more.
Entries should be sent to
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in the form of a url link to the Hosting site of your choice (Youtube, photobucket etc).
I'll ask Daragh Owens to write a small addition to this which will outline the way to upload your video and obtain the url to forward.
Hopefully he will be covering taking Videos in his talk at next Tuesday's meeting - so another reason why it shouldn't be missed!
This competition is kindly being sponsored by Maidenhead Aquatics, Carlow and for this inaugural round it has been decided that Rob (Sandtiger) from there will adjudicate all the entries. This may change with future rounds but it is felt that as the sponsor will be donating the Prize it's only fair that they get an input into the competition rather than merely doleing it out.
John
So dust off the Video Cameras (or, in my case, find out how it works) and get filming.
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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Mick...
Follow me up to Carlow
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Curious maybe i missed it but whats the prize up for grabs Please Log in to join the conversation.
Nice one John. Get the cams out lads.
Mick...
For some like me its time to consider investing in a cam first of all
This is undoubtedly a great event; Congrats to John and admin team for organising this
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My camcorder's ccd died last week
I loved that machine ... very sad 
(Also looking forward to seeing the clips !
Valerie
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Andrew this competition has been in the Wings for months, so it is great to see it get an airing.
As to how to upload the video clip, I don't use Photobucket so I can't comment on them, but for YouTube it is quite simple:
Set up an account it you don't have one - it's free.
Remember you username and password!
Select "upload" button and point to your video file and leave it to upload.
When it is uploaded if you play it back the address of that video will appear on your web browser
Select is and paste in a thread here, no special instructions, it will appear is a Window.
Example, if after uploading your browser address shows
http://www,youtube,com/watch?v=k1Gu_m5BtLQ [fullstops changed to allow link to display as text]
Just paster that here and it will appear like this:
Best of luck to all that enter.
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