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
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Location: Finglas, North Dublin.
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Fish are animals, they are alive and awfully expensive in this country.They will die during the tank cycling. It is just like trying to cross a motorway : would we do it, knowing that u have 95 % of chances to die. Even at 30 % of chances to die crossing, a motorway nobody will do the challenge.
Now in a new tank, fishs have e 99.9% of chance to die. We just throw them in ammonia ....
Ammonia is just like chloramine : it is burning everything around. The fish can not breath. Basically, it's like if something was burning your lungs, you are just suffocating. There is no escape...
Fish are living animals. As fishkeepers we must provide them the best conditions in our tanks, and have the knowledge of what they need before to get them.
It's a good idea for an article: may be -how to choose ur fish-
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I agree completley man. As for the article thing, thats a great idea.Do not put fish in a new tank for the 5 first weeks.
Fish are animals, they are alive and awfully expensive in this country.They will die during the tank cycling. It is just like trying to cross a motorway : would we do it, knowing that u have 95 % of chances to die. Even at 30 % of chances to die crossing, a motorway nobody will do the challenge.
Now in a new tank, fishs have e 99.9% of chance to die. We just throw them in ammonia ....
Ammonia is just like chloramine : it is burning everything around. The fish can not breath. Basically, it's like if something was burning your lungs, you are just suffocating. There is no escape...
Fish are living animals. As fishkeepers we must provide them the best conditions in our tanks, and have the knowledge of what they need before to get them.
It's a good idea for an article: may be -how to choose ur fish-
Location: Finglas, North Dublin.
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Gonna set up a small quarantine tank this weekend. Have been meaning to do so from day 1 but funds being the way they are...
It's definately worth having alright, at least I can then try to help them. Thanks again for your time.
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