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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18 Aug 2012 16:13 #1 by newbejkjimk (damien kelly)

Cautionary Tale was created by newbejkjimk (damien kelly)

Hi as you can tell by the name i am new to fish keeping,and i hope to save others from the nightmare i have experienced. I started with a 64ltr tank bought all i was advised to from local fish store i was very careful to follow all the advice i got from reading other people's posts on here. Waited 6 weeks cycled thank tested etc and then came the fish i was hooked so much time spent peering into the tank telly almost became redundant. first time i was leaving the house overnight was worried but did my home work and advice was not a problem happy days or so i thought, came home went straight to tank and seen that the water level had dropped about 4 inches then horror seen the fish all white and dead OMFG put my hand in the tank to catch/revive or for god knows what and the water was hot temp was above 50dig. My Hagen elite 100Wat water heater had malfunctioned. went to local fish store and started my rant the guy there i have to say is a good guy and i insisted that the heater be sent back to Hagen and tested, I waited about a week and heard from fish store asking what exactly i wanted to make things right so i said i wanted compensation for my fish, plants, water treatments, cycle,plant substrate sand in other words i didn't want to start from scratch and pay for the trouble. Hagen got in touch offered a good will package which was crap plastic plants, algae mag, small btl aqua+,new heater. when i contacted Hagen to advise it was not good enough i was told hard luck that's all i was getting as the heater is all that was under warranty. so the moral of the post is pay more for quality products to avoid disappointment.P.S don't expect good service from Hagen.

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