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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

Great news!

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04 Apr 2017 11:51 #1 by Bill (Bill Hunter)
Thought I would share what is great news for some us in the fish keeping hobby.
Last year a Japanese team went to Bangka Island in Indonesia to see if they could find Parosphromenus deissneri - the original Liquorice Gourami - but even although they searched hard it couldn't be found anywhere. They declared the species extinct.
Personally, and in the view of others, I thought this was a rather premature announcement. However, Went­ian Shi recently visited Bangka (P. deissneri is endemic to Bangka) with the aim of making a thorough search. He visited all known - recorded and non-recorded - sites and found them all destroyed beyond repair and already partially planted with Palm Oil. He did, however, after intense searching, find a peat black water swamp site that so far remains undisturbed and never visited by anyone else; he also found the long lost Parosphromenus deissneri.
A breeding programme will be set up to ensure their survival and hopefully this species will return to the trade in a few years.
Please be aware that you will still find P. deissneri being offered for sale, but they will not be, as has been the habit for several years now. Another Paro has been discovered along with it although it isn't yet clear if it is a new species or a variety.
Photographs of the fish can be seen on the Parosphromenus Project website. Anyone interested in these little gems are encouraged to join the project, free of charge, and help to save this wonderful genus of fish.
Bill

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