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
Proof.....I am mad.
I already have been keeping marine copepods (yeah.....ok....so not the most interesting things) and some cultures of white shrimp (bought for a euro for about 10 animals....and again not very colourful) for the past few months, but decided that Justine's desires to have a Stonefish/Anglerfish is getting closer........but I'm determined not to go down the large marine set-ups again (just yet).
So.....a little nano tank with some live rock and some electrical stuff will do fine for now on a bed-side cabinet. Thanks to a half-price today.
My aims......possibly some Nudibranchs again, but maybe just small shrimp. If I need to go bigger, then I already have a few marine tanks in storage (until then, they are staying put).
ian
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We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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Having lost interest in marines some time ago, I have decided to take a very very small step into having full saltwater systems again.
Hi there ,
out of interest why did you lose interest in the salt ?
I do find freshwater so so much more interesting. I moved into marines quite big in the 70s, but never found the interest that I find with freshwater.
Freshwater always gave me a challenge, whereas saltwater didn't really.
Similarly, the same with Tanganyikan and Malawi cichlids......after many years of keeping them, I found them dull compared with riverine cichlids of africa.
I was once the curator of a public aquarium and worked alot on developing marine filtration systems with them and "other bodies" (can't say whom)......that was fun. But when work was done.....there remained only a few challenges that was of interest to me with marines.
Still, I do like the puffer/trigger family, the scorpion fish, the batfish, and the anglers.
@JohnH......no loss of a freshwater person to marines: I'm still a freshwater man, and the marines may be simply a household decoration (that is not a 'marine keeper'
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Still, I do like the puffer/trigger family, the scorpion fish, the batfish, and the anglers.
@JohnH......no loss of a freshwater person to marines: I'm still a freshwater man, and the marines may be simply a household decoration (that is not a 'marine keeper'
ian
I have to admit to a sneaking admiration for the Marine 'Betta' - but that's as far as it goes - my only saltwater connection is in hatching Brine Shrimp!
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With freshwater species, there are still many that are specialised feeders and are not easy to get going. Then with the water.......there is no single recipe.
Lighting periods, temperature changes, seasonal changes in water chemistry, seasonal changes in food all add up to much more of challenge with freshwater when venturing into new species recently discovered.
@John....I see you'd be more into the inverts. My white shrimp were originally as food for the wolf fish, but they are also cheap pets.
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Having lost interest in marines some time ago, I have decided to take a very very small step into having full saltwater systems again.
ian
now thats really bad news ian.
marine fishkeeping is a seperate hobby entirely. (like joining the moonies lol.)
But I did buy some Nothobranchius killies yesterday.....I'm still a freshie.
As for joining the Moonies.....now way, they tell you how to live your life (ooooh....so did the marine keepers years ago as well
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It is.
Another big hit, but rarely seen, is the elephant snail (or whatever limpettie name anyone wants to give it).
It was very active yesterday....not sure if that was a Mayan sign, or pure coincidence? but the world didn't end on 21 12 (I must put on the Rush album soon....ooohh, but maybe that is a difference 21 12).
Nano-fish? still deciding if I want to go down that route of Marines.
Maybe a Nemo???
Maybe that will 'open doors' with the OH to allow me to set-up a larger system for Nudibranchs.
or a way to wrangle a tank change-over to allow me stack some more freshwater tanks in somewhere. ???
Yep....little cute Nemos could be a viable option.
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