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
Water Chemistry.... confusing topics ?
Good point.
I'm just an average fish-keepers, and that is the angle I take everything from.
That would be a great topic for discussion in a public debate.
ian
Thats an understatement if I ever heard one
. If you're just an average fishkeeper, theres no hope for the rest of us 
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Good point.
I'm just an average fish-keepers, and that is the angle I take everything from.
That would be a great topic for discussion in a public debate.
ian
Thats an understatement if I ever heard one
There is a long history.
As a young kid I was interested in chemistry and life....but I didn't understand it at primary school.
But then I started keeping fish, and started to see talk about chemicals etc....and that got me even more interested.
Then at secondary I started to have bits and dabs explained that I'd heard about in fish-keeping....and linked the two.
So...my interest in fish-keeping drove my interest in chemistry even further.....but it was the effect of chemicals on life that really interested me.
So, yeah, I'm an average fishkeeper who has tried to link two long-standing interests together: and I'm still learning and trying to develop new ways of looking at things.
AND hoping that fellow fish-keepers can contribute to science......fish-keepers have a lot to offer.
@ Sofiztikated..... I would also go with the philosophy of 'once its working, leave it'. The science comes in in trying to help out with things that don't quite work.....even if 'doing what it says on the tin'.
ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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