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
Super Red Arowana
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It is very difficult to judge the colour that will be present in the adult fish and due to the long development period and unique combinations of colour these fish are often expensive and sought after in larger sizes.
For specific colour requests the fish will need to be at least 14-16inches or greater.
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Follow me up to Carlow
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Firstly, if you copy and paste rafts of text like that it is only fair to cite your source: unoaquatic.com/worldofasianarowana.htm
Secondly, why do you keep posting pictures of fish then not answering any questions?
I just don't get it.
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(again)
Check out the angling section, it is fantastic
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Check out the angling section, it is fantastic
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same crap on the other forum
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Aro King, it would be decent of you to reply to questions of those that have bothered to engage in your thread matey. If not then I think your future posts will be ignored as what is the point in posting if you go incummunicado after posting the original thread.
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Seriously?? Does this guy even keep these? Here I was compiling a list of questions on them
. What do you mean "again" Dar? Another double agent or what?
Jay
Hi jay
I do keep these aro but my is only baby at the monent, so not that colourful as these aro.
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Aro King - is that you Kevin Fish?
Firstly, if you copy and paste rafts of text like that it is only fair to cite your source: unoaquatic.com/worldofasianarowana.htm
Secondly, why do you keep posting pictures of fish then not answering any questions?
I just don't get it.
Hi patrick
Am copy and paste the text from www.arowana-supplies.co.uk/id25.html , just want to let people know what is aisa arowana and these picture of aro is friend of my from china. holp you don't got mix up the idea just want to share some of the nice picture to everyone in the friendy forum.
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i might be wrong, but i noticed this person was using a same pic another member put in a thread(unless they are the same person, but they never clarified it) www.irishfishkeepers.com/cms/component/o...w/id,79722/catid,27/ this is the thread where i inquired but got no response
Hi Dar
these ar the picture of my aro and i ask gav if any interesting of aisa arowana in Ireland, thought may something new in here.
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this is your flicker www.flickr.com/photos/53172718@N02/4909929237/
i just noticed the same profile pic
detective darren
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Viperbot wrote:
Seriously?? Does this guy even keep these? Here I was compiling a list of questions on them
. What do you mean "again" Dar? Another double agent or what?
Jay
Hi jay
I do keep these aro but my is only baby at the monent, so not that colourful as these aro.
Fair enough.
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Lol, regurgitated info, so much of it on here. Sources are rarely cited.
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If info is going to be copy/pasted from another forum or site, then yeah, that source should be cited. However, I dont agree that there is so much of it here, certainly not when compared with other forums. At least the few that I would visit anyway. There are many members here are genuinely experienced, and can speak from that experience. For example, just look at some of the article type posts that have been put up here lately, brilliant, first hand posts with a wealth of info in them. In my opinion, for what its worth, its the stuff of that caliber that we should use to gauge these boards.
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just my opinion
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my personal thoughts are you should be posting pictures of your own fish.fair enough if some one posted pictures off the net saying has any one ever kept these fish before or does any one know any thing about these fish.but you where posting pictures and not saying any thing for example super red arowana in my opinion you where trying to pass these fish off as your own untill people coped on they where picture s from the net.
just my opinion
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am just try to get all the information around the net to show to the froum
so let people known more about these fish and makeing this forum better ,
if am start name where is other forum got better information and post! Sure will take people eye of this forum.
also these picture which am posting Is not forum other forum is my friend.
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Am copy and paste the text from www.arowana-supplies.co.uk/id25.html , just want to let people know what is aisa arowana and these picture of aro is friend of my from china. holp you don't got mix up the idea just want to share some of the nice picture to everyone in the friendy forum.
Well done for pointing out that your original post was a 'copy and paste' job - but if you (or anyone else for that matter) plan to do this you really must quote the source of the original article and tell everyone that it has been 'borrowed' and from where.
In actual fact I think no third-party article or photograph should be submitted without prior permission from the original author/photographer but perhaps someone with more knowledge on this can comment.
I know I have seen stuff of mine appearing elsewhere, but mostly with acknowledgment so not so annoying that way.
ah ok so you have two accounts?
Arowana King has closed down his previous membership accounts now and this is, to the best of my knowledge, his only one now.
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