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
August Vote result.
Discus -
1st - #4
2nd - #2
3rd - #3
4th - #1
Non-Discus -
1st - #06
2nd - #13
3rd - #12
4th - #09
So, congratulations go to Tetdiscus in the Discus category and to the person submitting #6 for being this month's winners.
Thanks again to Inza and Miamiheat for making the generous prize donations.
Tetdiscus, please contact Inza to redeem your reward for winning.
In the non-discus section the winner has decided to defer and so the two prizes of Miami's Angels and Inza's wood pass down the line for platty and Luger.205 to contact one another to decide who chooses which prize - the Angels or the wood, both very good prizes in my view.
In the light of the desultory interest shown - both in entries submitted and votes cast I think it's becoming very clear that these competitions aren't really of interest and so I think it's time - for now at least - to bring the curtain down on future ones. This seems an awful pity - especially for those who send in entries every round - we'll resurrect the competitions again at some point in the future, I'm sure (in all truth I actually enjoy running them).
Thanks to the members who have taken the trouble to enter and thanks, too, to those who took the time to vote...and thanks, yet again, to Inza and Miamiheat for donating the prizes.
John
Location:
N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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After burning the midnight oil all 14 votes have been assimilated and the first four in either section are as follows:
Discus -
1st - #4
2nd - #2
3rd - #3
4th - #1
Non-Discus -
1st - #06
2nd - #13
3rd - #12
4th - #09
So, congratulations go to Tetdiscus in the Discus category and to the person submitting #6 for being this month's winners.
Thanks again to Inza and Miamiheat for making the generous prize donations.
Tetdiscus, please contact Inza to redeem your reward for winning.
In the non-discus section the winner has decided to defer and so the two prizes of Miami's Angels and Inza's wood pass down the line for platty and Luger.205 to contact one another to decide who chooses which prize - the Angels or the wood, both very good prizes in my view.
In the light of the desultory interest shown - both in entries submitted and votes cast I think it's becoming very clear that these competitions aren't really of interest and so I think it's time - for now at least - to bring the curtain down on future ones. This seems an awful pity - especially for those who send in entries every round - we'll resurrect the competitions again at some point in the future, I'm sure (in all truth I actually enjoy running them).
Thanks to the members who have taken the trouble to enter and thanks, too, to those who took the time to vote...and thanks, yet again, to Inza and Miamiheat for donating the prizes.
John
There are 10 Angelfish i was giving away. PLEASE decide asap and come and collect: the buggers are growing like weed and overstocking my Discus tank. PM me to get my number and we can set a date/time for collection. If I dont hear from anyone in a couple of weeks I will move them on as I see fit.
Congrats to the winners.
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So the wood is what I am after I guess (could "help" with 5 angels also if required
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I think, then, that if you'll take five then we have five more Angels to offer to the fourth-placed entrant - who is Tetdiscus.Re Prize - Platty is passing it on and I don't have space for more than 5 of the Angels in my 100L.
So the wood is what I am after I guess (could "help" with 5 angels also if required
(Looks like you'll have two collections to be making, Tet).
John
Location:
N. Tipp
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I guess that is too much for what I bargained for....Because Im not sure about combining discus and angels in my tank. I'l get back to you soon.
But before anyone else say something about the discus photo I sent, here is a copy (some of it) of email I sent to a concern member: "The discus were under the bogwood, which I have taken off. And the fish was only about two weeks in my tank at the time. As I just thought they looked cute lining up, looking at me. But because I used my phone and the shadow of the wood, they looked different. No need to worry about their health as im on top of it all. They get feed 4x a day, with stendker beefheart as main food. 30% -40% a day water change going through the hma filter. I installed Deltec d-d 39 watts uv steriliser. Fluval FX 6 as filter. I have a separate 50 liter as a quarantine/hospital tank. And the fish are eating like theres no tomorrow. "
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If its ok with you Inza I'd love to meet up
Need to fill that tank of mine
DS
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with the support of my husband, I was able to explore discus fishkeeping (just as long as he doesnt auction off the fish and tank on ebay! Lol)Post pocs when you get the two discus ok.
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Well, first and foremost...im a She
opps wont be up wicklow way untill next sunday , ( i take thats where they are?) but of course ill take photos
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