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
Cichlid ID Please.
I have these two and am trying to find out what they are, they, on first view, look like Juwels but the first spot is too far back from the Gills to be Juwels, any ideas?
The last pic is an alternative use for any of your left-over Paper Bags, Paper now, not Plastic!
Kev.
OK, John H to the rescue, Analomochromis Thomasi and posted in the wrong place, should be African.
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But that category isn't strictly correct as they come form neither of the Rift Valley lakes but from Western Africa (I think).
John
Location:
N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
ITFS member.
It's a long way to Tipperary.
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John
But, as I said previously, we will NOT be having a 'Cats' section
so no use you sneaking in Feline snaps surreptitiously (even if it is of a little lad who quite 'took' to me!).
;o)
John
Location:
N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
ITFS member.
It's a long way to Tipperary.
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Maybe it could be re-named to "African Cichilds (Tanganyica & Malawi,etc)"
Done Sirs !I'll get the General onto that, when she has time
About cats, nice picture Kev.
I posted that one before on another post somewhere but this is what I have done with an old polystyrene fish box. Cosy cat
Valerie
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Valerie
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This is going so far 'off-topic'!
First Cats - then Politicians, wherever next???
;o)
John
Rabbits that look like Cats...and was once called Hemichromis thomasi, but someone said 'stop renaming cichlids' and so it grew fur instead and got called a Rabbit.
I didn't know that the name of tbomasi's had changed.
Beautiful fish. I was talking to Serratus the other day about these.....and how I hadn't seen them for years.
The discussion came about as some 'unkonwn' 'Geophagus-like' fish have very similar markings.
There are some lovely non-rift valley cichlids.
Good on you Stetnik for having such a classic fish.
(soz for putting up the picture of the rabbit...but it is cute).
ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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