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
Thought I'd finally introduce myself and my fish.
I've been floating around the site now for a few months and have got great info from loads of people and also found a few people in the area who actually are informed about fish keeping! So the site has been a great find altogether for me. So thought I better introduce myself to all
I've had a coldwater tank for somewhere between 13-15 years now. for most of this time it was home to a goldfish and fantails. the last of my first stock of fish died last year, a big goldfish:( . had been thinking about trops for few years before that, but decided to hold out untill last December and bought a Juwel vision 260. so now have it and two 2ft tanks, one cold and one trop.
Fish at moment are:
1 goldfish
2fantails
whitecloud minnows
1 hillstream mountain loach
2 paradise fish
1 cuckoo syno
1 mystery syno
4 albino corys
1 bristlenose
2 dwarf gourami
2 neon rainbows
2 male guppies
2 ottos
I've been donated today
2 blue rams
1 blind cave fish
I've a good lot of plants
Fountain plant
bronze becopa
becopa
a hygrophila (with pink leaves)
arrowhead
straigh Vallis
striped acorus
java fern
amazon fern
Red Lugwia
java moss
mussle plant or water lettuce
2 types of cryptocorynes
cryptocoryne balansae
Nymphaea lotus 'Zenkeri'
and a fern whoose leaves split into three at the top, forget name.
I've had a ph of 8 since I set up the tank and use no CO2 yet. all these plants are growing at great speed, with just the crypto balansae and acorus growing bit slower. So thinking these must be the fool proof plants!!
have had few plants that don't like my water such as combomba and a broad leaf plant with pink/red bits along sides of leaf.
finally got some fishy photo's onto my computer so will post them under the photography section in a while. some are a bit doggy, (had forgotten all those things they thought me about at college and was only using a compact digital...which is hard once you get used to slr's. but If your used to compact's slr are hard to get used to!!)
So that me summed up for the moment.
Orla.
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