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
Went out for cigarettes....
I went out to the shops about six months ago and forgot to come back
Sorry I have not being around much, life has been very busy. I have not given up the fish, still have most of them, though I reduced the number of freshwater tanks to about 30 and now have 4 marine tanks too, it was size here for while
Yes I dipped a toe in the dark side, no real interest in the fish, but the inverts and the corals have me enthralled. You never know what you are going to find when you look into a marine tank from the small almost microscopic creature to the big ugly Teddybear Crab I finally caught last night.
I see Derek has being raking up some old videos, I have promised to do an update on some of Dereks fish-house and might even get that done this week. The altums are gone, they went to Des O'Reilly. I did not have the time to devote to them that I felt they needed if ever there was to be a serious effort breeding them and I thought it was a great way to get Dessie back into the hobby. Here is a video of them just after Dessie got them:
Not a great video and the lighting was just white flouros, but you get the idea.
Apart from spending more time on the dark side of the hobby, I have been busy with lots of other things and have not had much internet time, I will be back again, you haven’t got rid of me just yet, in the meantime, here are a couple of short videos from my marine tanks:
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Daragh
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welcome back daragh, i was hoping those old videos would bring u out of the woodwork.
what happened was i made a vid myself to post, and when i compared it to your previous ones i decided to resurect them instead for any new posters to enjoy.
you have set the standard high.
vics are looking fantastic these days and ready for an epic production.
30 tanks specialise in african cichlids, angelfish and various catfish
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