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
Am I mad or Wha ???????
Does anybody else go to bed on a Friday night thinking........Ooh I'm really looking forward to the water changes tomorrow ??
Tallaght, Dublin 24
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Does anybody else go to bed on a Friday night thinking........Ooh I'm really looking forward to the water changes tomorrow ??
Nope. I never.
I go to bed on Friday night not being able to wait to see what has been said on any mad threads one may find on forums.....sometimes you get them you know (and I have several forums that I moderate...so great fun, but not this one, I go to bed to dream and wake-up with a nightmare).
ian
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Tallaght, Dublin 24
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Does anybody else go to bed on a Friday night thinking........Ooh I'm really looking forward to the water changes tomorrow ??
Nope. I never.
I go to bed on Friday night not being able to wait to see what has been said on any mad threads one may find on forums.....sometimes you get them you know (and I have several forums that I moderate...so great fun, but not this one, I go to bed to dream and wake-up with a nightmare).
ian
Like your style Ian....subtle !
Tallaght, Dublin 24
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Does anybody else go to bed on a Friday night thinking........Ooh I'm really looking forward to the water changes tomorrow ??
Nope. I never.
I go to bed on Friday night not being able to wait to see what has been said on any mad threads one may find on forums.....sometimes you get them you know (and I have several forums that I moderate...so great fun, but not this one, I go to bed to dream and wake-up with a nightmare).
ian
Like your style Ian....subtle !
Better than commenting on some threads directly me thinks.
We have 4 fish tanks in the bedroom......and some of my fish stalk me in the morning and the middle of the night.
I know they stalk me. I feel them looking at me. Wanting me. Fluttering their eyes at me. Fancying me.
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I have one and when I'm away from Home, I can't sleep because it's too quiet, what's it like sleeping by a babbling Brook???
Just re read your post, I'm crackin' up again, twice tonight, here's another Sweetie to get your others jealous
Kev.
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4 ! IN THE BEDROOM!!!!
I have one and when I'm away from Home, I can't sleep because it's too quiet, what's it like sleeping by a babbling Brook???
Just re read your post, I'm crackin' up again, twice tonight, here's another Sweetie to get your others jealous
Kev.
Hot stuff. That is a sweety.....but I won't be tempted to pin her pic up above the bed. Pity. Mrs Leopard will get jealous, and Mr Angel will get too excited.
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Do Fish bilabially furcate?
If so, have you witnessed it?
How quickly this has gone off Thread....
Kev.
Ummm.....I need google.
....Paddyc1 started the thread, and he hasn't exactly stuck to the topic.
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Haha, fish interviews.....I'd be afraid of what mine would say.
If I was to choose one to start with, it'd have to be my talking catfish
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