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
Oddball Fish - What do you like?
Give me a big ugly black catfish over a pretty discus anyday.
I currently have a big fahaka puffer, a giraffe catfish, a couple of megalodoras catfish and I've just gone mad and paid a very large deposit off a banjar red asian arowana.
I've lots of different cichlids and a few L numbers but none that I'd class as particularly odd.
I've kept a good few different puffers and kept a niger trigger for a while.
So what kind of oddball fish do you like and what have you kept?
The bigger and uglier the better.
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At the moment I'm keeping Banded Knifefish( Gymnotus carapo ), Silver Tiger Fish ( Datnioides polota ),
Fire Eel, Swamp Eel ( monopterus albus ), a few rope / reed fish, Dwarf Snakehead, 2 striped, a spotted and a chocolate talking cats and a jaguar cat.
I'm getting more into the strange cats now have a few people try to source me some of the more unusual ugly (lovely) ones. One of my favorites that I've kept is Chaca Chaca, a real looker, unfortunatelly not keeping any at the moment
Dan
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I was looking at a large walking catfish just recently, they are seriously ugly boyos.
Some nice fish on your list dan, chaca chaca are excellent. They have the ability to lower the PH of water
I do like datnoids too, are you finding your guys difficult to feed?
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How do you find the flowerhorns Mossy, do they live up to their reputation aggression-wise?
I was looking at a large walking catfish just recently, they are seriously ugly boyos.
Some nice fish on your list dan, chaca chaca are excellent. They have the ability to lower the PH of water
I do like datnoids too, are you finding your guys difficult to feed?
the flowerhorns are more aggressive than the pirahna ever were
had the 2 ina 5x2x2ft tank and had to move 1 into a 4ft as it nearly killed the other
fantastic fish and very fast growin and the KOK is gettin bigger each week
the only downside is a big tank for only 1 fish:(
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. He is housed with a 10 inch Common Plec (Black), so ugly all round in that particular tank. Ive always been interested in freshwater rays but never had a setup I could keep them in safely, not to mention they are as expensive as some of the big oddball marines out there. Im hoping to soon be the proud owner of some big marines soon, and mabey will come across something unusual for that setup so fingers crossed...Jay
Location: Finglas, North Dublin.
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