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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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06 Jun 2016 13:47 #1 by LemonJelly (Johnny Cowley)
I have a small tank (70L) with about a dozen diamond tetras in it and I'm thinking of removing the hood and leaving it open topped. There's nothing else in the tank and there's some Brazilian pennywort floating on the surface. Has anyone had any experience of tetras jumping much?

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06 Jun 2016 13:51 #2 by igmillichip (ian millichip)
Most of my fish would be "jumpers" or good escape artists, but it is rare for tetras to jump out from any of my tanks (mind you, over active Crenuchus could possibly leave a tank if diving to the top very fast).

ian

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06 Jun 2016 14:02 #3 by LemonJelly (Johnny Cowley)
Grand, thanks. I suspected as much. I had Vietnamese White Clouds up until recently and found out very quickly that they leap to their deaths with apocalyptic fervour (I was going to reference lemmings, but at this stage we all know that's nonsense). Just wanted to make sure.

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06 Jun 2016 15:57 #4 by carlowchris (chris)
just seen this on adverts...if ya could get a big enough sheet of this to go over top and stop jumpers it would be ideal...super cheap

www.adverts.ie/fish-tanks/fish-tank-plas...-moss-carpet/5420977

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06 Jun 2016 18:44 #5 by robert (robert carter)
Was going to leave my new coldwater koi tank open top until i came home one night and found a 40euro koi on the floor dead , so now it has three glass panels on it , it does however appear to the non fishkeepers as being open top

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