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
Fish Pedicure shouldn't be legal
For the welfare of the fish, I hope the systems delivered along are filtered/heated and that there is some 'training' for their keeper along with the delivery, otherwise, it's a dead investment before it even has started (18EUR/30 min in one of these establishments Galway as per as quick search in Google).
I wonder if dead skin is a good and enough of a nutrient for them too.
Personally, it's more about hygiene that I'd be more concerned about ... you can't just throw some bleach in the tank to sterilise it.
So, IMO, if all the points above were being fulfilled and verified ... fine ... but from what I can gather, it doesn't seem they are. It brings back the whole debate of animal (and human in this case) welfare : the bowls, the monster fish ... There has been more 'progress' made for the protection of dogs, cats and horses but there is indeed a need to extend policies.
Valerie
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These fish seem to cost 5 EUR a pop if you were to buy them in the fish shop today. They might not be this price if you were to buy them bulk but it still would be an expensive mistake to kill them all regularly through neglect.
For the welfare of the fish, I hope the systems delivered along are filtered/heated and that there is some 'training' for their keeper along with the delivery, otherwise, it's a dead investment before it even has started (18EUR/30 min in one of these establishments Galway as per as quick search in Google).
I wonder if dead skin is a good and enough of a nutrient for them too.
Personally, it's more about hygiene that I'd be more concerned about ... you can't just throw some bleach in the tank to sterilise it.
So, IMO, if all the points above were being fulfilled and verified ... fine ... but from what I can gather, it doesn't seem they are. It brings back the whole debate of animal (and human in this case) welfare : the bowls, the monster fish ... There has been more 'progress' made for the protection of dogs, cats and horses but there is indeed a need to extend policies.
Valerie
oops ... forgot to add my conclusion to this ...
... as a consequence, I'll be voting with my feet !!!
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First of all if the I.S.P.C.A got involved fish fry culling would be banned.
Fish shows would probably be banned down to stress of moving the fish around.
Breeding fish related to each-other for pretty varieties but a weaker species would be grotesquely opposed.
Many other fish would be banned for imports for the many abuse's with how they are caught.
So i think if many knowledgeable fishkeepers do questionable things to fish can you really question what the un-educated of fish do.
Be careful what you wish for
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
quote Bruce Lee
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