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
Some random pictures of our beauties. Pic heavy
(these pic are from when the discus were yet young)
Here’s looking at you….(not a fish, but a big spider).
Enjoy or something or other.
ian
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Mick...
Follow me up to Carlow
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So, the Mudskippers seem like hits.
Fantastic animal.....I should do some videos of them feeding (loonies).
I'll see if I can do a nice picture of their set-up....but it actually looks more like a demolition site of rubble inside a glass box.
In fact take any photo of one of the many half built apartment devs ground space and superimpose a UV light and a glass back = a mudskipper tank.
ian
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I do like Uaru's...if you have a soft-spot from seeing them, then that becomes even softer when keeping them.
The mudskippers are not a bad fish to have if you have run out of strong furniture to put a ful fish tank.
These guys are in 5 or 6 inches of water.The cost of mudskippers when they do the rounds is about 15 euro......not much at all.
A healthy mudskipper is no problem feeding. Aggression can be a problem in a tank with multiples, but what is new in fishkeeping?
These are basically a slimey wet lap-dog....and I have had a long time chasing an escaped one around the front room (it saw an opening when I was feeding and lept straight over my shoulder....and boy can they run fast). Something out of Laurel and Hardy maybe.
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Keeping lungfish is definitely an intellectual thing, does every scientist have a lungfish?
Some nice unusual fish there too, any chance of a full list of the species you keep Ian?
Cheers,
Patrick
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excellent photography aswell
Des
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1. Myloplus rubripinnis (Red Hook Pacu)
2. Discus
3. Discus
4. Discus
5. Mudskipper
6. Mudskipper
7. Lungfish
8. Freshwater Stone/Toad Fish
9. Freshwater Stone/Toad Fish
10. Polypterus endlicheri
11. Polypterus endlicheri
12. Uaru
13. Mudskipper
14. Fundulopanchax sjoestedti (Blue Gularis)
15. Lace/Pearl Gourami
16. Scleropages jardini
17. Poecilotheria ornata (Sri Lankan Ornamental Tarantula
Gav...the fish have come from FFF, Brittas, Seahorse and Wackers (Longmile Rd). Does that answer the question?
I forgot to put up a picture of the Polypterus delhezi by the way.
Someone asked for a list of our fish.....I'd have to get typing
Should scientists have lungfish? being highly biased....of course they should.
The lungfish is an absolutely great fish to study.
I brought the lungfish and the mudskippers to the Tallaght fish show in May as an educational item realting fish and amphibians.
My opinion is that the enormous genome of the lungfish (about 20 times larger than the human DNA genome) is a fantastic 'top of the list' in the animal world.
The lungfish and saratoga are both quite young fish.
The lungfish is only about 18 inches long.
The saratoga is about a year old and is 13 or 14 inches.
Most of these picture were taken on a casio compact digital camera, so the quality is not as good as it could have been.
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Gav...the fish have come from FFF, Brittas, Seahorse and Wackers (Longmile Rd). Does that answer the question?
Now, now they came from Purrfect Pets!!
everything looks great!
nice to see the mudskippers again!!
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
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also the spiders are great!
you gonna post some pictures of the dart frogs?
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ah i was just messing with ya's!
also the spiders are great!
you gonna post some pictures of the dart frogs?
That's all fine and good, but what if I don't have a sense of humour.
Cheers....I'll tell the other half as many are her spiders.
We have a good few extra spiders that are too hard to photograph, and I'm not going to put my hand with them to tempt them out of their tunnels.
Dart frogs... i posted a few www.irishfishkeepers.com/cms/component/o...w/catid,36/id,65792/
but I do have some more hanging around, I'm just being too lazy to shrink the photos in size.
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