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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

Corydoras venezuelanus 'Black'

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04 Feb 2018 19:20 #1 by Bill (Bill Hunter)
I received a gift of 6 of these and am enjoying their characters. I'm not 100% sure of the proper name. Some say it's Corydoras aeneus 'Black', some say Corydoras aeneus 'Venezuela' while others say it's Corydoras venezuelanus 'Black'. I'm going with the latter. There is good strong evidence for the latter and the majority appear to side with it so I'll stick with that until/if I learn different.

Having a feed of Grindal Worm


Bill
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08 Feb 2018 11:48 #2 by JohnH (John)
Seems quite a healthy specimen, Bill.
The first ones I managed to get hold of of these was when they first appeared on the scene and were excellent but I have noticed with later imports they have deteriorated immensely - no barbules and incomplete fins, not to mention very little in the way of the Black colouring of the original ones.
However, your little lad pictured above is much more like the originally-imported ones we got hold of 'back then'.
If your ones grow to maturity and reproduce please put me top of the list for the purchase of offspring.

John

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N. Tipp

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.


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It's a long way to Tipperary.

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09 Feb 2018 10:10 #3 by Bill (Bill Hunter)
Certainly, John. They are certainly lively little things.
Bill

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