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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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18 Aug 2017 22:53 #1
by irish-zx10r (James feenan)
Have u ever being in a pet shop where u wanted to tell the people don't
buy all them goldfish and put them into a tiny bowl. Myself i struggled to keep
quite or bite my tongue, i seen this happen a few days ago.
I know not all pet shops are the same
but its a pity to see such poor advice only to get the extra sale and the few euro out of a person.
Something fishie going on here
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19 Aug 2017 00:01 #2
by JohnH (John)
Sadly most of the shop assistants in the pet stores have very little 'fish' knowledge (unfortunately) and it appears that little is done to help educate them to obtain it either.
It seems to me that - with one or two exceptions - not many employees 'stay' very long there either.
Not really sure what the solution might be.
It's much the same with the Pet Stores across the water as well.
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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19 Aug 2017 08:23 #3
by fishmad1234 (Craig Coyle)
Have u ever being in a pet shop where u wanted to tell the people don't
buy all them goldfish and put them into a tiny bowl. Myself i struggled to keep
quite or bite my tongue, i seen this happen a few days ago.
I know not all pet shops are the same
but its a pity to see such poor advice only to get the extra sale and the few euro out of a person.
I have experienced this many times James.
The worst was a bloke trying to sell a woman the little Betta tank think it's 12 litres comes with the light back chamber filter and says you can put as many Betta's in it as you want.
The problem lies with the fact that most of the small privately owned fish shops have closed down and people are shopping in the retail pet stores and in turn the staff being hired are mostly young people looking for a summer job or just fresh out of school and taking a year out I suppose the term I'm looking for is casual staff who really don't know the first thing about fish keeping.
I'm not saying that some retail pet stores don't have good staff I have met some dedicated and knowledgeable staff in some of these pet stores but unfortunately there is not enough of them compared to the casual staff who don't know the basics of fish keeping.
I live in south Dublin and I have 3 retail pet stores close and only one dedicated professional fish store.
Regards
Craig
at the end of the day it becomes nite
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19 Aug 2017 13:22 #4
by robert (robert carter)
I also live in south dublin and deal only with two local fish store , and in both have also found the staff great , and on cccasions have been advised not to take my requested purchase for one reason or another . This is what i call customer service , not all store aime is to empty your wallet .
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