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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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30 Aug 2010 23:03 - 30 Aug 2010 23:15 #1 by Arowana space (kevin lee)
This is the red colored type of Asian Arowana. It originated from various parts of Western Kalimantan province in Indonesia. The most famous waters are the River Kapuas and Lake Sentarum where the Super Reds are from. It is also one of the more popular fish among Asian Arowana, largely because of their auspicious color and more affordable prices as compared to Cross Back Golden. Furthermore, with its full red fins even when young and red lips and barbels, no hobbyists will be able to resist the temptation to own one of them. When approaching adult size, these red colors will also start to appear more intense.
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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30 Aug 2010 23:17 #2 by Arowana space (kevin lee)
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30 Aug 2010 23:19 - 30 Aug 2010 23:26 #3 by Arowana space (kevin lee)
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30 Aug 2010 23:21 #4 by Viperbot (Jason Hughes)
Cracking fish Aro King, thanks for this.

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30 Aug 2010 23:40 #5 by mickdeja (Mick Whelan)
Beautiful specimen, Cheers for sharin. Any vids..........:)

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31 Aug 2010 07:27 #6 by Peteemax (Pete Maxwell)
They are stunning.

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31 Aug 2010 07:55 #7 by 2poc (2poc)
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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.

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31 Aug 2010 08:02 #8 by dar (darren curry)
***BUSTED***

(again)

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31 Aug 2010 09:18 #9 by Viperbot (Jason Hughes)
Seriously?? Does this guy even keep these? Here I was compiling a list of questions on them :angry:. What do you mean "again" Dar? Another double agent or what?

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31 Aug 2010 09:49 #10 by dar (darren curry)
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

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31 Aug 2010 10:14 #11 by mossy (gavin blanchfield)
this lad is a"tin roofer"
same crap on the other forum

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31 Aug 2010 11:55 #12 by Ma (mm mm)
Replied by Ma (mm mm) on topic Re:Super Red Arowana
Lol, regurgitated info, so much of it on here. Sources are rarely cited.


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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31 Aug 2010 13:23 #13 by Arowana space (kevin lee)
Viperbot wrote:

Seriously?? Does this guy even keep these? Here I was compiling a list of questions on them :angry:. 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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31 Aug 2010 13:29 #14 by Arowana space (kevin lee)
2poc wrote:

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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31 Aug 2010 13:33 #15 by Arowana space (kevin lee)
dar wrote:

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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31 Aug 2010 13:56 #16 by dar (darren curry)
ah ok so you have two accounts? see here's where i got confussed, this is the other members pic www.irishfishkeepers.com/cms/component/o...w/catid,27/id,79604/

this is your flicker www.flickr.com/photos/53172718@N02/4909929237/

i just noticed the same profile pic

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31 Aug 2010 14:00 #17 by Viperbot (Jason Hughes)
Arowana King wrote:

Viperbot wrote:

Seriously?? Does this guy even keep these? Here I was compiling a list of questions on them :angry:. 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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31 Aug 2010 14:15 #18 by Viperbot (Jason Hughes)
Mark. wrote:

Lol, regurgitated info, so much of it on here. Sources are rarely cited.


Mark


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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31 Aug 2010 15:29 #19 by fishmad1234 (Craig Coyle)
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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31 Aug 2010 15:55 #20 by dar (darren curry)
ah well lads lesson learned and wat not, we don't want him to feel unwelcome and that we're ganging up on him, we all make mistakes, sure that cowboy mickdeja posted just a link (oh wait he got lifted out of it for that too) some other lad caused murder with youtube vids, i single handedly upended the site numerous times (for those that remember, that half a gourami was a cracker) and we all turned out ok with exception for the mick fella and his unhealthy fish photos and vids obsession

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31 Aug 2010 16:34 #21 by Arowana space (kevin lee)
fishmad1234 wrote:

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


craig[/quote

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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31 Aug 2010 16:42 #22 by JohnH (John)
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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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