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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19 Jan 2011 00:29 #1 by des (des)

mainly golden white cloud mountain minnow and orange fin kyathit danio

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19 Jan 2011 00:54 #2 by SpiderMonkey (Mark O'Neill)

Amazing pic's des I might of asked you this before but what camera are you using?

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19 Jan 2011 00:58 #3 by platty252 (Darren Dalton)

Very nice Des. You are getting to be quite good with that camera.

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19 Jan 2011 01:03 #4 by des (des)

cheers Mark

Nikon D60 with a 105mm macro lens, flashgun and tripod
apature mostly set to 16
shutter speed 200+ for the speed of the danios and minnows, anything less is a blur
the flashgun makes a big difference too...

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19 Jan 2011 01:07 #5 by des (des)

cheers Darren
i'm loving the macro lens
going around like a lunatic trying to find small stuff to photograph
ripping up circuit boards, looking for spider webs
was even taking a few shots of the hair on my big toe :dry:

don't worry, i won't post any of them up on the site

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19 Jan 2011 01:15 #6 by SpiderMonkey (Mark O'Neill)

Wow des that's some setup you have there.
Id love some good camera gear!
I wonder what shutter speed my camera phone is :laugh:

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19 Jan 2011 10:38 #7 by Viperbot (Jason Hughes)

Very nice Des, great shots.

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19 Jan 2011 12:28 - 19 Jan 2011 12:36 #8 by des (des)

mainly golden white cloud mountain minnow and orange fin kyathit danio :whistle:

just looking back over the pix
theres not even one shot of a golden white cloud mountain minnow in there :huh:

ah well, think i must've been half asleep when i was adding the pix last night or maybe my mind was on the springtails invasion in the other tank, think i got rid of most of them now anyway...
(the springtails that is, not the white clouds

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19 Jan 2011 13:28 #9 by Peteemax (Pete Maxwell)

Great pics Des.

Are these your own fish?

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19 Jan 2011 14:06 #10 by des (des)

Peteemax wrote:
Great pics Des.

Are these your own fish?

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they are indeed, every one of them
i've gone communal with the rio 240

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19 Jan 2011 14:27 #11 by Peteemax (Pete Maxwell)

des wrote:

Peteemax wrote:
Great pics Des.

Are these your own fish?

Pete

they are indeed, every one of them
i've gone communal with the rio 240

Fair play Des you have some lovely fish

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19 Jan 2011 18:29 #12 by paddyc1 (Paddy Corrigan)

Great stuff Des

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22 Jan 2011 17:39 - 22 Jan 2011 17:40 #13 by Melander (Andreas Melander)

Really nice photos, including the ones from your other thread! Amazed by how you manage to focus on the faster and skiddier(a word?) fish like cardinals and danios without compromising the light and color.

Keep on snapping and posting:)

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22 Jan 2011 18:18 #14 by des (des)

cheers Man

it took a lot of experimenting with the aperture and shutter speeds etc. etc.
for every 15 pics i take, i might only be happy with 2 or 3 and promptly delete the others
i like photographing the small fish because you can see them a lot bigger than the naked eye and i love the small details, also it makes photographing the bigger fish seem easier
...patients and a very high shutter speed works best for Me

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