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
have a look at this
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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That's exactly what isIt looks like the fossil of a megalodon's tooth!
What is it?
Work friend brought it in to show me.
Awesome!
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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It is very surreal to hold something in your hands that is so old,
And to think that it came from such a marine predator
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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And I thought I was old!!!
John
Location:
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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I thought the same, it looks like a megalodon's tooth but I thought, how on earth will he get a hold off one.. so it has to be something else
lol
Impressive, one of my favorite animals of all times, they are not that old though, If i remember correctly they lived around 25-30 millions years ago, they became extinct not to long ago (over 1 million years).
That tooth you hold is quite big, I'd say around 16-18 cm?
What amazes me the most about the megalodon is not the length but the weight, they could weight up to 100 tons, and just the though of a 100 tons "monster" swimming out in the ocean gives me the shivers! lol
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Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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I probably should of mentioned the story around this,where did u get your hands on that i taught something like this would be under lock and key
It's not mine unfortunately,
My work colleague is from south Africa and a friend of his gave him the one in the picture to ADD to his collection
Now there is some place over there where you can find them without any major difficulty!
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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