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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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11 Jun 2008 22:32 #1 by goldy (goldy .)
At last nights meeting for the ITFS we had a nice surprise. Paul Bricknell came to our meeting all the way from Pennsylvania. He had attended a meeting previously about 7 years ago and while visiting relatives here decided to drop in and see if we were still meeting in Rosy's. Paul is the President of the Aquarium Club of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania and is also involved in the Killifish Association.

Many thanks to him for the books he brought that have been added to the library and also for bringing information on live foods. He also brought starter cultures for various live foods including paramecium & vinegar eels. Some of the information on raising cultures of live foods is from his own experience and extremely interesting and practical. I am in the process of typing it up and I will post it on the forum for everyone.

Paul has an extensive fish room with more then 40 tanks. He has years of experience some of which he shared with us last night. He has kept all sorts of fish and has bred numerous fish over the years.

Thanks for looking us up at last nights meeting it was lovely to meet you and hopefully we will be able to keep in contact. Good luck with your swap meet in October and we look forward to hearing how it all went. You are more then welcome to drop in again and we would all love to see you again.

Best regards

The members of the Irish Tropical Fish Society.

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11 Jun 2008 23:06 #2 by Daragh_Owens (Daragh Owens)
Well said, it was great having Dr Bricknell along.

I thought it was great that he brought the live food cultures for someone he promised them to when he was here 7 years ago, I can't remember what I promised someone 7 weeks ago!

A surprise guest from Sapin last month, from USA this month, I wonder where they will be from next month . . .

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12 Jun 2008 13:39 #3 by goldy (goldy .)
on that note daragh it must be said a big thanks to Sean for dropping in to our meeting last month and for bringing gifts. thanks again

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12 Jun 2008 16:21 #4 by Daragh_Owens (Daragh Owens)
Yes, I sent Sean a PM to thank him, but I should have posted here too.

For anyone that was not at last months ITFS meeting Fr Jack (Sean Connolly) made a surprise appearance. And very kindly brought some interesting fish to distribute including killis, barbs, elephant fish, shrimps and a breeding pair of cichlids - the species I forget, Juli something.

So thanks again Fr Jack.

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15 Jun 2008 01:09 #5 by zig (zig)
Thanks Dr Bricknell, pleasure to meet you, at the moment I am (successfully so far) growing out my first grindle worms from the starter culture I recieved from you. Also read a small book on Killis you brought over as well.

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28 Apr 2009 21:29 #6 by Sean (Fr. Jack)
Daragh_Owens wrote:

Yes, I sent Sean a PM to thank him, but I should have posted here too.

For anyone that was not at last months ITFS meeting Fr Jack (Sean Connolly) made a surprise appearance. And very kindly brought some interesting fish to distribute including killis, barbs, elephant fish, shrimps and a breeding pair of cichlids - the species I forget, Juli something.

So thanks again Fr Jack.


Julidochromis ornatus

www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_julie1.php

That would be a ecumenical matter!!!

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01 May 2009 21:45 #7 by goldy (goldy .)
nice to see you back sean. you might have seen that we are having another show this year for our sins....hopefully it will be as good as teh last one. will you maybe make another surprise visit and come to the show? anyway thanks for the lovely fish I got from you on your last visit. I got the pair of barbs which I still havent got a proper id for but they are lovely and lively.

thanks

nessa

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