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
very sick after this disaster
lost all my clown loaches
its after taking me a few days before i could talk about it but it took me 4 years to get my gang of 36 clown loaches together.some were 7" big
all was well over the crimbo but within 3 days they were all gone.didnt put any new fish into the tank so it wasnt that.
can only put it down to a mate of mine was fishing on the beach and got a load of crabs when he was gettin bait and brought them up to me for the fish.gave them to the fish in the tank a few days apart with some shrimp and they happly ate them up.was gone for a few days over the christmas and when i got back it was to late.nearly got sick
all the other fish were grand which is strange it was only the loaches that died.no whitespot,nothing
have just about cleaned up the tank as some of the loaches were in bits and being ate by the other fish so done a few water changes and everything seams sorted
i normally feed them flake and bloodworm and never had a prob
do ye think by feeding them crab and shrimp fecked up the eco of the tank?
maybe they had some parasite on them
the big downside of fish keeping
dont think i can start collecting clown loaches again,it would cost alot of money to replace the ones i had
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The only advice I can give, having had unfortunate events like that myself is to wait with deciding if you will get new ones or not. After something like that it's hard to think clear and I was almost ready to throw in the towel at one point but the will came back.
Good luck with whatever you decide!
Melander
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Why is it where you go away for a day or two something always bloody happens
Listen mossy a few weeks down the line I bet you will be happy when your looking at something new in the tank... fresh start!
Mark
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Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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Mark
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If I lived closer to you I would donate some of my clown loach to you. Such a nice fish, probably my favourite in my tank. They have such individual personalities I just cant imagine how it feels to loose all of them like that. Best of luck to you! You know you're addicted to fishkeeping when...you spend €200 to accomodate a €5 fish.
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