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
Hello from an old timer fishkeeper
Some things about the old days were great, but some things were awful.
When we look at the bits that were pretty awful, and prices could be one of them, it is wonder that the hobby ever took-off and got to where it is now.
I remember the days when things like Bumblebee Gobies were one of the cheapest fish at about 20 for a pound, but a small Clown Triggerfish would cost 300 pound at the same time.
There are fish you can get now that you didn't even dream of years ago, but there were a supply of some species years ago that now seem like gold-dust.
As an alien from another world, so to speak, I don't really know the history of the fish-keeping scene here in Ireland prior to about 12 years ago.
But, interestingly enough, I got married here in 1983....and the photographer for our wedding was the only person I knew who kept fish in Ireland. I knew the guy as a photographer, but in more recent years people told me that he was a key name in the fish societies here going years.
The guy's name was Hedley Wright from Bray (I think someone said he even had a shop).
Maybe some people could compile a little bit of the history of fish-keeping here in Ireland and post it up as an article. I recon it would be an interesting read.
Now see what you've started Rashers.
ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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