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 few handy tips
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Here’s my handy tips!
1. While you’re feeding your fish on wet-frozen bloodworm, don’t put the rest of the blister pack on the lid of the tank. When it falls down the back it will eventually really stink and the time you spend stripping down a 260l and moving it could be better spent doing something else.
2. Don’t leave metal tools on the shelf above a tank – even a small allen key can go straight through the glass cover if it hits it at the right angle and will leave you trying to pick the shards out of your shrimp tank.
3. If you use a pond pump to empty or fill a tank, don’t forget that even after you switch it off, our old friend gravity will continue to siphon hundreds of litres of water all over the new carpet while you’re out of the room. A really good tip is to not repeat the same stupid mistake the next week as your OH will no longer understand the joys of fishkeeping.
Classic...loved number 3
.Jay
Location: Finglas, North Dublin.
Life
may not be the party we hoped for, but while we
are here we might as well dance.
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Here’s my handy tips!
1. While you’re feeding your fish on wet-frozen bloodworm, don’t put the rest of the blister pack on the lid of the tank. When it falls down the back it will eventually really stink and the time you spend stripping down a 260l and moving it could be better spent doing something else.
2. Don’t leave metal tools on the shelf above a tank – even a small allen key can go straight through the glass cover if it hits it at the right angle and will leave you trying to pick the shards out of your shrimp tank.
3. If you use a pond pump to empty or fill a tank, don’t forget that even after you switch it off, our old friend gravity will continue to siphon hundreds of litres of water all over the new carpet while you’re out of the room. A really good tip is to not repeat the same stupid mistake the next week as your OH will no longer understand the joys of fishkeeping.
Classic...loved number 3
Jay
Ummmmmm.....No 1.....so at least I'm not the only one to guilty of that, and as an additional tip for No 1: don't go sniffing the blister pack 'just to check if is rotten or not' (gut heaving is an involuntary response that is not appreciated by the OH if that means a carpet cleaning).
Here's one of my top-tips:
we know that use of finger nails helps build stronger longer and more beautiful finger nails: get the missus to clean all gravel (and JBL Manado) thoroughly.....well, because she is worth it...and she'll appreciate your consideration with a reward of a nice can of beer whilst she gets her nails to boot-camp.
my other top-tips are on how to avoid divorce.
ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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