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
My Rio180 community tank
I'm keeping things simple plant-wise, so I only have 2 types of Hygrophila and some Java Fern. It's filtered with a biiig Nirox sponge filter with an old Juwel powerhead attached, 600lph.
The main residents are, I guess, the Festivums. One is a good bit bigger than the others, but although there's been a little posturing, no one has come badly unstuck so far.
Here's a shoal of 10 Red-eye tetras. I must have a thing for the Moenkhausia genus; I have a tank of Diamond tetras as well.
There's also 5 Bronze cories and this guy, an Apistogramma agassizii. Frankly, he discreetly owns the tank. He seems to make it clear that while he'll put up with everyone else being in his tank, it's still his!
"The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of your life; your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you.They're freeing your soul."
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