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
Another horror story!!
by Blake on August 30, 2011 at 2:08 pm
David E. Boruchowitz
A giant gourami at the Sea Life Aquarium in London, England, had to be trained to eat a normal diet of fruit. When the 9-pound, 16-inch fish was surrendered to the aquarium its diet had consisted solely of a wafer and chocolate candy and recognized nothing else as food.
This story illustrates a lot more than the ignorance of many people and the unbelievable hardiness of some fishes. In this case the aquarium was able to take in this poor creature, who had literally outgrown its welcome, but there are very few openings compared to the large number of oversized fish that need new homes. Even though the giant gourami Osphronemus goramy can grow to about 28 inches in length, there are many commonly bought species that get even bigger.
The time for hobbyists to realize they cannot house a tankbuster is before they purchase one! Counting on finding a home for the animal when it becomes too big to handle is irresponsible. But then, come to think of it, feeding a fish chocolate is irresponsible, too.
What do you call a three legged Donkey?
A Wonkey....duh ha
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