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
Oldest Fish You Have Kept?
but some Keepers have their Fish for years.Pics would be great.
Kev.
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in the pub at the moment so will try get a photo of him up tomorrow
Well for some
as for the oldest fish i have kepy it would have to be a trio off synos that i an there where my very first fish i bought and i only moved them on anout a week or so again
so seems that i have being fishkeeping about 4 years now that how old they where
Sean
Sean Crowe
ITFS Member
Location: Navan
Always Remember Surviving Is Not Thriving
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looks just like this guy
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) and it survived all the mistakes a newbie can make and more 
, it lasted 14 years in total and was the toughest fish i ever had.One day it was swimming across the tank stopped suddenly and dropped to the bottom of the tank dead, i remember reading some old magazine back then that said if you see a fish that has just died put whiskey on its gills and it may revive, my dad wasnt to happy when his jameson was swiped outta his hands and a fish dunked into it 3 or 4 times, i then stuck the fish back in the tank in the flow of the box filter bubbles, suddenly it jerked about in my hands and swam away it was 6 years old at that time... so what was my miracle longest lasting fish...... a ruby shark, Epalzeorhynchos frenatum and he never was a cranky or territorial fish.
Fishkeeping the Only way to get wet and wild
currently 25 tanks, and breeding is the aim of everything i keep
location:Limerick
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to discuss my oldest fish i would have to go back when i started fishkeeping nearly 30 years ago, it was one of the first fish i got (because it looked cool
One day it was swimming across the tank stopped suddenly and dropped to the bottom of the tank dead, i remember reading some old magazine back then that said if you see a fish that has just died put whiskey on its gills and it may revive, my dad wasnt to happy when his jameson was swiped outta his hands and a fish dunked into it 3 or 4 times, i then stuck the fish back in the tank in the flow of the box filter bubbles, suddenly it jerked about in my hands and swam away it was 6 years old at that time... so what was my miracle longest lasting fish...... a ruby shark, Epalzeorhynchos frenatum and he never was a cranky or territorial fish.
Now there is a story, amazing.
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LoB
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)But the actual oldest fish I have must be my Uaru. I have her for about 3 years now, but she was already 1,5 (or so) when I got her. She is my pride and joy I must say (and a bit of a bully, strangely enough!)
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A life making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.
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