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
What day to buy?
- Jonlate (Jon Late)
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If a fish shop gets a delivery in on a Wednesday, what day would be best to go and buy them?
Would it be Wednesday as the fish are new stock? Or not as they have just travelled?
Is Thursday to quick to buy them, as they just been put into a new tank and then you are taking them out, travelling with them and putting them into different water in your tank?
What about Tuesday as then they have been in the shop for 6 days and have selttled a bit?
Which day would be best for the fish? Would angel fish be different from barbs or pleco's or Rams etc?
What do you think?
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In an ideal world the shop would have quarantined any new fish before offering them for sale (a fortnight is the generally-accepted timescale) but, sadly, we don't exist in that ideal world here.
We're faced with a bit of a dilemma - knowing when to buy newly-arrived fish...too soon and we risk getting 'unsettled' fish (which is always rather chancy) and if they're left too long the danger is that someone else will have bought them up.
The following week would be my personal recommendation - it will be interesting to hear what others have to say on the subject.
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I don't know how others buy but I like to pick healthy looking fish. I saw some taking just random fish. So if you reserve and some will take the best few days before, you still left with the weak. But usually there are still some good pcs left.
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I would like to see a decent quaranteen period...........and I see quaranteen as being defined as quaranteen (=40 days).
However, reality is also that that costs money and loads of space and one would expect shops to charge for such luxury.
So, now going for reality..............some fish I would probably prefer the shop to take the hit if the fish arrive like pants and die in their tanks first (and what is left alive is foder for buying).
However, for some fish species I would not always trust a shop to keep them in good enough condition....and so I may wish to buy some fish before they have even had time to be poured out of their shipping bags.
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I know newlands cross garden centre get theirs on a Wednesday as I saw them arrive the other day.
But what about seahorse Dublin / Galway
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Likewise, I think, for Petco. Uncertain about any others, but it's a pretty safe bet that mid-week would be the time to assume new stock arrives (as with Newlands).
Maybe we can have more clarification from customers/shops themselves?
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Sorry to ask john, but who is AV!!!??
Fancy a preview of my tank?
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Thanks all for your help so far.
Sorry to ask john, but who is AV!!!??
Fancy a preview of my tank?
AV = Aquatic Village, no longer a Forum sponsor but they've been very good to us down the years so still worth a mention.
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