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
cork water
As a Corkman,I dont notice any difference in the water quality to be honest in terms of drinking etc.
I think if you are driving home sick...I think the sickness is that you are leaving Cork!!As for the wife not wanting to go for a drive to Fota...whats the issue?!!!!
To be honest, the water is fine, its no different than anywhere else, I do notice the City Centre water can be abit manky at times,but outside of the City Ive not had any issues,certainly not from a health side of things anyhow...keeping fish in it is a different matter!
Derek if you are ever down here again let us know...I'll get some good proper spring water from West Cork..it will make you 10 years younger!!!
Gavin
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i attended a wedding in blarney once and ended up with chronic dehydration and had a headache for 3 days.
Derek, I'd simply put that down to too much Beamish, you're way better off sticking with the Guinness.
Dave
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Down around Kildare is hard aswell but the quality of water in this country varies from day to day and from area to area.
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"...and driving home hunched over the wheel."
And there was me thinking that's how you always drive!!!
Ricko10 lives in West Cork and he tells me his water is very soft and acid - I'm very envious - he also looks the picture of health, so - in the words of Village People: - 'Go West'.
John
ps, I'm very partial to a drop of Beamish but can also manage Guinness (when it's bought for me)- any offers?
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N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
ITFS member.
It's a long way to Tipperary.
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"...and driving home hunched over the wheel."
And there was me thinking that's how you always drive!!!
Ricko10 lives in West Cork and he tells me his water is very soft and acid - I'm very envious - he also looks the picture of health, so - in the words of Village People: - 'Go West'.
John
ps, I'm very partial to a drop of Beamish but can also manage Guinness (when it's bought for me)- any offers?
JohnH,Im surprised at you....everyone knows its Murphys as soon as you get to Cork!!!!
My PH is generally 6.5ish or so...more on the acidic side than neutral side to be honest,and fish seem to do ok in it thankfully.
Derek I reckon the reason you were getting sick is that you drank too much the night before...(which may not have been water!!). Enjoy Cape Clear...you'l be getting the boat from beautiful Baltimore!!(my village
)Gavin
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If u were in carrigaline and the cobh area no wonder the water didn't taste right.
On the carrigaline side you have the polution for about 30 or so chemical factories, and on the cobh side you have the polution from the old Irish steel factory which they still haven't cleaned up and is believed to be a contributary factor in the high number of cases of cancer in the greater cobh area.
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wow, that would explain a lot, thanks for the heads up wylam. thinking about it, i suppose we could say much the same about the whole heavily populated and over industrialised east coast really. i'll defo be sticking to west cork in future
.@ fishowner. i agree re baltimore. most of the west cork area is very beautiful and relatively unspoiled.
i read, and i'm sure as a local you'd know, that the overall temperature is 2 degrees higher (gulf stream?) which allows for a more tropical flora etc.to prosper.
30 tanks specialise in african cichlids, angelfish and various catfish
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