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
PETSTOP OPEN NIGHT
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Date: 28th June 2011
Time 6pm – 9pm
Venue: Swords Petstop - Airside Retail Park (beside Harvey Norman)
Guest speaker : Dr Peter Burgess
Format: a selection of short talks covering Aquatic Diseases, Conservation work,
Fish Health
In between talks Dr Burgess will be free to talk to the guests
Hope to see you all there.
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Anyone else?
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N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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It's a long way to Tipperary.
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30 tanks specialise in african cichlids, angelfish and various catfish
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Sounds like it will be a great night.
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always on the lookout for interesting corys.pm me if you know off any!
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Should be a good night,had a couple of pints with him a couple of months ago,an absolute gent.
damian?
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- dubfish (Alan Martin)
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As much as Damian is also a Gent and a very Knowledgeable fishkeeper,i think Dave is talking about Dr.Peter Burgess
Should be a good night,had a couple of pints with him a couple of months ago,an absolute gent.
damian?
Regards Alan..
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Although he could hardly get a word in,he was hearing all about wild discus and angels
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Correct Alan,Damian is a nice chap,but he wasn't well enough for pints that night.Dr Burgess and his wife were though,and enjoyed the Guiness.
Although he could hardly get a word in,he was hearing all about wild discus and angels
Ummm....wonder who was talking about wild discus and angels?
Not sure if I can make the night as we have a few family issues going on at the moment.
But, hope all have a good night.
Is this guy the replacement for David Ford? or is David Ford still around at Aquarian? or am I so out of date with things nowadays?
ian
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- derek (Derek Doyle)
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and i think acara is going to buy us all a pint.
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i went along to this with gerry evans and it was very enjoyable. damian was a great host and dr burgess was a great speaker and his talk included information about various products and aspects of parasitism and medications. tea and coffee etc was available and i ate half a box of biscuits because i missed my dinner for the cause lol. the attendance was typically disappointing and it would not encourage such worthy inituitives for the future. but at least the quality of the audience compensated for this to an extent. the people who attended imo are among the best and most dedicated fishkeepers around and are the real future for irish fishkeeping.
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the point i am stressing with the above last sentence is that there were no novices in attendence for whom the talks and presentation would have been of huge value. in fact all who attended would already have a fair bit of knowledge on the discussed subject matter .
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I'm afraid I'm doing long days at the moment,and couldn't make it. I would love to have been there,having seen Dr Burgess before,he's a great speaker,and a real gent.
Don't worry Derek,you'll get that pint at some stage!
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i think this is what he said but maybe platy damian or xeon can confirm or correct this.
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- igmillichip (ian millichip)
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one very interesting fact from dr burgess talk was that in clinical tests it was found that fish from asia had been exposed to most antibiotics to a very high level already before import probably rendering them useless for future use.
i think this is what he said but maybe platy damian or xeon can confirm or correct this.
always a point of concern...... and not just for the fish.
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it is a pity you could not make it as it was very interesting and there were some interesting insights into the use of plant/herb extracts as medicines as we are sort of discussing on the organic threads.
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- igmillichip (ian millichip)
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But the night sounded interesting.
I like all the ideas of looking at plants and ecosystems as a whole entity......especially in control of disease/illness. Thinking outside the box....I like.
ian
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