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
Memory Lane....What was your first fish?
.Jay
Location: Finglas, North Dublin.
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Kev.
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Breaded Cod!
Kev.
Kev, that is the worst case of glutoemulsioma crustyoverus i've ever seen in a fish.
Typical beginner's problem there!
And you've listened to an old wives tale about lemon being a great cure.
Yep. I should have said "First fish kept in a fish tank with water and attempts to keep it alive" as a First Fish.
Some people....you have to spell it out to 'em.
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Ok, my first Fish was a Jay favourite, a Tiger Barb, followed by a beautiful Angel Fish from the Capel Street pet shop, ah memories, I came home from School to gaze at the Fish my mom had bought for me and thought, what the Hell is that?!, it looked like a silver coin with a mouth, my little Barb had demolished the young Angels Fins so I decided to release them both back into the wild via an interesting conduit, the U bend of the Toilet! ehm...
I know better now.Kev,
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But, funnily, when Jay put up his post, I was going to ask if he had made one of the 2 cardinal errors....of adding some lovely angel fish with the tiger barbs (the other one being a Convict Cichlid pair in a guppy tank).
My advice to people when wanting Discus fish, but gasping at the price, was to buy a few angels and a shoal of tiger barbs......presto, instant silver Discus fish with black stripes.
Ummmmm but sometimes my sense of humour was not always taken so lightly by some.
Actually, just thought of a topic for new thread (later maybe)...."classic fish that ya don't see anymore" (I really do love the old classics....they were what made fishkeeping...'fishkeeping' in them far-off days platform shoes and flared jeans)
Memory lane.....back to days of being innocent.
ian
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and Candles underneath for heat.Kev
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But, funnily, when Jay put up his post, I was going to ask if he had made one of the 2 cardinal errors....of adding some lovely angel fish with the tiger barbs (the other one being a Convict Cichlid pair in a guppy tank).
My advice to people when wanting Discus fish, but gasping at the price, was to buy a few angels and a shoal of tiger barbs......presto, instant silver Discus fish with black stripes.
Ummmmm but sometimes my sense of humour was not always taken so lightly by some.
ian
"Instant silver discus"...brilliant
. No, I must say I knew what I was getting into when I bought the Tigers. I felt it was worth passing up some of the more fancy fish with trailing fins and such, simply because of their pugnacious attitude towards each other and awesome colours (the natural ones). I gotta say, I miss them now and this thread has me thinking about a Tiger only setup yet again. Dammit Ian...Jay
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ian stop bringing back horrible memories, flares, god you could camp under them..... cant say i ever did the platforms though... thank christ for that.... as for classic fish what about my all time favourites the island (checker) barb or the clown barb still have a soft spot for them till today but you rarely see them
In response to Shoes......here is what you missed....genuine 1972 (I still have them after nearly 40 years), size 8 or 9, still looking good, bought most of my fish wearing these......be jealous, be very jealous, these are big platforms
Kev....slate bottom tanks and candles.....just prior to my time. It was wrought iron tanks and that green putty that sometimes worked to hold water in the tank.
Some classic fish that I would love to get again are Crenuchus spilurus (super) and really nice ruby barbs.
Jack Dempseys, Good Convicts, salvinis, teleogrammis brichardi....and I must admit, I think that Melanochromis auratus are just one of the best Malawis you could keep (and when I bought my first ones....they weren't cheap...but a classic old school malawi). The list is too long.
ian
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If you tell me you had slate based tanks u'll deffo give away your age!!!
Kev
no didnt have them....only keeping fish 27 - 28 yrs so i'm a young whipper snapper, maybe Johnh remembers them
... (gonna get stick for this comment aint i john)
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