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
What absolute Dribble !!
But this PFK article is simply dribble.
It has no humour, it is not informative, it is obviously written by some ijet who needs to get some experience in life.
An annoying boringly arrogant article to be quite honest.
The subject matter, though, is great for a good humorous article.....but it's like making a floor cloth out of the finest satin money can buy.
www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=3880
It would be good to see some takes on the "what not to say" posted in a thread in Social and Rubbish.
ian
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Hi Ian
Which article? These links always take me to recently added.
Thx
Dec
The PFK article is in the link.....FacePalm Moments.
The thread I mention here does not exist, but one could.
ian
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) on here to be told "well now that doesn't mean diddly"?personally i wouldn't go near the pfk site unless a link like this but all that moran is doing is basically telling the unexperienced to do is, don't aproach your lfs with any questions unless it is an educated 1 because they won't tolerate it, to me this is 1 mans opinion that would be listened to because the people its aimed at wouldn't know any better so realy its not publishing material... but hey, thats pfk for ye!!
the only helpfull point i can make is the shops don't explain the nitrogen cycle 15 times anymore so might be happy to answer your question
Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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A caption from your reply.[/]Davey C wrote: the people its aimed at wouldn't know any better so realy its not publishing material... but hey, thats pfk for ye!!
They also wouldnt be buying the magazine
Though I have heard the phrase about keeping fish so many years from those who I thought would have known better.
Sometimes you need to step back in order to see the wood from the trees.
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I've never heard anyone ever ask if a LFS has any chips.
I have
!!! Used to get it every weekend! 
Never from a fishkeeper,usually from parents escaping the softplay that was beside us when we had the shop! 260l South American Community tank
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