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
amphibians.
Curious i was looking to see if any1 kept these on the forum so that i could learn about them even lizards and couldnt see a suitable spot to pop any questions, is there 1 will there ever be 1?? cheers
You happen to be in am good place.
I keep loads of amphibians and reptiles, and on the forum there are others who keep amphibians and have had or still keep reptiles.
We also have the presence of the Herpetological Society of Ireland here as well.
What are you wanting to know?
ian
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@djk im fully aware this is a fish keeper forum
but theres many fish keeper forums out there with sections for amphibians , so i was curious if there was 1 hear 
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), but there are still lots of people who have an interest and keep amphibians on here.As for aquatic frogs..... I took the following pictures of the ITFS stand at a show last week, and they are kept by one of the fishkeepers.
These are such superb specimens that even people in the herp soc were talking about the quality and size of them.
I would say that anyone who can grow aquatic frogs like that is the person to chat to....and it is a fish-keeper from the ITFS.
I don't think that lizards have a place on this forum, but amphibians? well axolotls, aquatic frogs? they're amphibians and many fish keepers keep them.
If a forums starts expanding too much it can lose impact..... the ones in the UK (eg RFUK) gets too mad at times, but there are places where the 2 interests cross over.
If you want to ask anything of the HSI, then you are welcome to send me a pm.
ian
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is there any chance the person who owns these frogs could give me a shout or if yourself ian could put me through to them as for the hsi ill pm you Please Log in to join the conversation.
Not too sure about adding Cats though (not being a feline enthusiast).
John
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N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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It's a long way to Tipperary.
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And then again, you have frogfish, catfish ...
So, yes, I think we can add Amphibians to a rebranded "Inverts and Amphibians", but, no, we won't have a cat section !!!
But, you all can be "lounge lizards" and chat us up all you want, I don't think we should have a reptile section.
(Thought I'd play with words today, please forgive me.)
Valerie
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but seriously the 2 species i have mentioned above xenopus and axolotls, are strictly aquatic creature that are very popular i might add its nothing like cats and dogs alot of people have these mixed into community tanks and id say there is a lot of people on this forum that keep these and would love to see a section to post on them(or old section extended to share)
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Thanks JohnH.
Valerie
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i was wondering what the clique was i will start to take advantage of this new section Please Log in to join the conversation.
Did you know that some fishkeepers have moved over to the 'darker side' of the forums as they have also got into dart frogs? well, let's get them back here.
But, I suppose a frog is a lot more different to a fish than are coral or shrimp or anemones or even amazon sword plants.
My guess is that you are a wannabe frog-keeper and wanting protection from the darker side of life for your own sanity.
@Paul...ummm..Clarke....ummm.Paul....clarke? what's going on? a change of name. Now that is confusing.
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