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
What did you do with your tank today?
The picture that jumps into my head on the motorcycle forum is one of "messed around with the carb today even though there was nothing wrong with it"....followed by "today I repaired the carb I broke yesterday"
(that being based on knowing many motorcylcist who tinker with their machine....for no reason
)Anyway, I recon a thread here (not necessarily a section) for people to just let-out what they did today would be good: but that is free for any member to start and get a bit of social chat going (I like social chat mixed with seriosu fish keeping)
ian
Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS) Member.
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I suppose if we had a merc owners forum, then the replies would be "drive it", "take it to a service", "have it washed"...........whereas a boy-racer car forum would probably have a lot more different activities.
The picture that jumps into my head on the motorcycle forum is one of "messed around with the carb today even though there was nothing wrong with it"....followed by "today I repaired the carb I broke yesterday"
(that being based on knowing many motorcylcist who tinker with their machine....for no reason
Anyway, I recon a thread here (not necessarily a section) for people to just let-out what they did today would be good: but that is free for any member to start and get a bit of social chat going (I like social chat mixed with seriosu fish keeping)
ian
this is a great idea almost every site im on (car related) has a thread like this and they work great
the only thing is that word highlighted above, i hate it cant stand it, i love my modified cars i drive a Subaru Impreza and i am also apart of a good few clubs and we find that car enthusiasts is a much better way to describe us
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I suppose if we had a merc owners forum, then the replies would be "drive it", "take it to a service", "have it washed"...........whereas a boy-racer car forum would probably have a lot more different activities.
The picture that jumps into my head on the motorcycle forum is one of "messed around with the carb today even though there was nothing wrong with it"....followed by "today I repaired the carb I broke yesterday"
(that being based on knowing many motorcylcist who tinker with their machine....for no reason
Anyway, I recon a thread here (not necessarily a section) for people to just let-out what they did today would be good: but that is free for any member to start and get a bit of social chat going (I like social chat mixed with seriosu fish keeping)
ian
Now ian, on a bike forum you would be crucified for mentioning a car (cage as referred to by them)
... got a few warnings myself 
As for car sites (im on a few irish and international myself too) sure the irish put up a build thread thread to stick a few new gaiters in their car, change to alloys or to sticker bomb
... not the place to get me started on some banter I think it would be beneficial to the site while being a fresh source of info and ideas for the less knowledgeable on the site also... they can compare what they do to what others are doing daily
Below tank is for sale
my plywood tank build.
www.irishfishkeepers.com/index.php/forum...k-build-diary#137768
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