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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- cardinal (Lar Savage)
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Coming back to fish keeping after a long break (over 20 years).Living in offaly and have just finished cycling my new tank,first fish went in today (pristella tetras),I'm mainly into south american fish ect.Lokking forward to participating in the forums and sharing knowledge ect.
Cheers .... Lar
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- karlo (karlo kennedy)
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great to see you have grown your interest in fish again
if there is anything you need
just shout someone might be able to help you
all the best
karlo
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- LimerickBandit (Donal Doran)
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Let us know if you need any help & we look forward to your input and any pic's are more than welcome too
LB
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- Fishowner (Gavin fishowner)
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- cardinal (Lar Savage)
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I'm sure i'll have plenty of question's over the next few weeks,I was actually helping a mate with setting up a tank,when i realised how much I missed rinsing dust out of gravel My main problem at the moment is water ,despite living in the middle of a bog,the house water comes from a well which is full of limestone,so much so we had to fit a water softener system,which now means all house water has a high salt content(great for washing machines and electric showers,not so good for acidic loving fish)I spoke to the lads in aquatic village and they suggested an RO unit so with santa coming soon who knows Re pics - will do as soon as i have a decent fish stock in at the moment i have the tank planted and furnished with bogwood (one advantage of living in the bog) and the sole occupants are 6 pristella tetras, who seem to enjoy hiding in behind the plants.
Cheers
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- Johnmorrin (John Morrin)
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- cardinal (Lar Savage)
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Geashill myself,originally a dub tho....
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- sheag35 (Seamus Gillespie)
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originally a dub tho....
Hi Lar,
Well we all have our cross to bear:P
welcome back to the addictive world of fishkeeping, hope we can help you with info etc. and Hope santa brings you that ro;)
Seamus
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currently 25 tanks, and breeding is the aim of everything i keep
location:Limerick
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- Valerie (Valerie)
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Welcome to the forum and welcome back to this addictive hobby that is fish keeping.
If you have any queries, don't hesitate to ask/post.
If you did manage to post some pictures of your newly set up tank, that would be great !
Valerie
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- cardinal (Lar Savage)
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Just to let you know i've posted pics of my tank up in the photo section ,all comments welcomed.... Valerie;still trying to get to grips with actually posting pics tho,i've read your post on posting pics so i guess i'll just have to keep on practising.
Lar
.....Doesn't help that i'm still on a dial up connection,broadband's a comin or so eircom are sayin Ahh broadband....I dream of Broadband
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- Lazerus (Caroline Mullally)
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Welcome to the board, I only joined myself last week...
I see your a fan of Cardinals...just like myself!
Anyway...Hi!
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- cardinal (Lar Savage)
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Welcome to you too,Yep cardinals are probably one of my favorite Tetras,I'm thinking I'll be adding my first lot into the tank around the beginning of January.
Talk To ya
Lar
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