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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Sure the wife told me to stop buying fish stuff and i didnt listen to her......
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I hope u gave her a few seconds to run before u started to shoot at her lol
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EDIT: Sorted now Mark.
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no photos of the main man himself lol
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I taught there be more photos here
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no photos of the main man himself lol
You're right - I'll have to ask Darragh to send one in.
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Good reply
I taught there be more photos here
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no photos of the main man himself lol
You're right - I'll have to ask Darragh to send one in.
John

And another person comes into mind lol
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do you record videos i love to get a camera and tri pod even if i dont know what
i am doing it looks important lol
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@Lauris thats a impressive looking setup you have there.
Hi x10r
Thanks. You can find more about the scape here
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php?optio...id=135014&Itemid=200
do you record videos
videos not often, more time-lapses. the one on this project:
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