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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

PaulV's Round - Round 4

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10 Sep 2014 09:06 - 17 Sep 2014 15:41 #1 by JohnH (John)
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Right then, here's Round Four for your consideration and Paul has generously donated a €50 voucher from Seahorse Aquariums as first prize, while Darkslice has joined in with a 2kg Co2 canister for a back-up prize.

Here's a 'copy-and-paste of the relevant part of Paul's post from the August Results thread:

"Hi John, sory for the late reply. If the next comp does go ahead I'm thinking a south american theme. Any fish from south america, that opens up my favourite monster fish category. The prize can be posted anywhere in the country and seahorse is open in Galway now making it easier to use the voucher. Hopefully this attracts a good interest".

So, from this you will see that the topic is a South and Central American one.
It is starting as of now, but so far we don't know Paul's decision as to the duration of the round - but doubtlessly he'll announce that at some point in the future. Midnight October 31 is the deadline

Usual Rules apply (the picture must be then entrant's own work, have not appeared here or anywhere else previously etc) but the main difference to previous rounds is that the main prize donor (the one to whom the round is 'dedicated') will be the sole adjudicator of the entries submitted for that round. This will overcome the voting apathy which has blighted the rounds of recent history of the Competitions.

So that's it - please send your South and Central American-themed entries to the Forum's Competition address:
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And Paul will add a closing date for the round.

Edit, Paul has contacted me and the end date is Midnight October 31 as it's September 10 already.

As ever, once the first entry arrives the thread will be locked until the round is completed.

Good luck everyone.

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12 Sep 2014 13:36 - 17 Sep 2014 15:48 #2 by JohnH (John)
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We have made an executive decision - well, Paul has really - and he is now happy to include images of Central American fish as well so now the category is
South and Central Americans

Paul has decided he would be happy for every entrant to be able to submit up to three pictures - but this isn't essential, two, or even one, are perfectly acceptable.
So...up to three pictures may now be sent (for this round, at least).

A quick reminder of the address for entries - it's:

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Remembering that his theme is fish from South and Central America.

To clear up a small point of confusion which appeared in the past, the pics do have to be the entrant's own work and which have not appeared on this or any other site before but need not be the entrant's own fish - or taken in his/her own tank(s).
Another smaill piece of information is that entries do not need reducing in file size before submitting since the photobucket host we use automatically brings down the file size to the correct dimensions before hosting can occur.


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12 Sep 2014 13:57 - 12 Sep 2014 13:58 #3 by JohnH (John)
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Our first entry:

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As with every previous round the thread will now be locked until the end date.

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13 Sep 2014 14:05 #4 by JohnH (John)
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14 Sep 2014 10:01 #5 by JohnH (John)
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15 Sep 2014 11:07 #6 by JohnH (John)
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15 Sep 2014 14:27 #7 by JohnH (John)
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17 Sep 2014 14:25 - 17 Sep 2014 15:39 #8 by JohnH (John)
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17 Sep 2014 21:47 #9 by JohnH (John)
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23 Sep 2014 20:43 #10 by JohnH (John)
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24 Sep 2014 09:28 #11 by JohnH (John)
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29 Sep 2014 09:47 #12 by JohnH (John)
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17 Oct 2014 01:25 #13 by JohnH (John)
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Just a gentle reminder that there are only two weeks left before entries close for PaulV's Round. Please bear in mind you have the opportunity to submit up to three pictures for this round - please see the opening post for full details.

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20 Oct 2014 10:00 #14 by JohnH (John)
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Eleven days to go...
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20 Oct 2014 10:52 #15 by JohnH (John)
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Still eleven days to go...
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27 Oct 2014 00:56 #16 by JohnH (John)
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Only a few days more to get your entries in...
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29 Oct 2014 12:53 #17 by JohnH (John)
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A polite reminder that, should you be wishing to enter this round, there are only two more days to do so.

A little 'heads-up' for the next round - Jaro has offered his Fluval Chi tank as a prize - does anyone have any other items they might like to add to the November prize list?

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01 Nov 2014 02:07 - 01 Nov 2014 02:18 #18 by JohnH (John)
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OK then,
Here are all the entries for Paul to adjudicate on:

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Over to you now Paul - we need your choice of the picture you put into first place.
After Paul has made his decision we'll then ask Darkslide to choose a second place to win his Co2 bottle. Can I ask you both to send me your decisions by PM.

Many thanks to both donors for the September/October Round prizes.

John

ps More news about Round 5 to follow in the morning...
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01 Nov 2014 10:53 - 01 Nov 2014 10:55 #19 by JohnH (John)
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Paul has made his choice for his round and it's

(Imaginary fanfare of trumpets)

Entry #08, the pair of Jack Dempseys submitted by James (IrishZX10R).

Here are the details from Paul's PM to me:
"Good morning John, ive picked entry number 8 as the winner. If the winner can pm me his/her full postal address I will post on the seahorse voucher. Im about to head to work, but I'll post a comment on the pics later today from my ph."

Well done James.

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01 Nov 2014 11:17 #20 by Eric (Eric Corcoran)
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Some really top entries in this comp but a worthy winner for me. Well done James


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01 Nov 2014 11:18 #21 by JohnH (John)
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Here's the choice from Darkslice:

(Let's forget the trumpets)

"Torn between 12 and 14, but going to pick 14, with 12 as a backup"

Since they were both entries from the same competitor I'll just add "Well done" to Inza.
You can sort out the mechanics of collection between yourselves.

Thanks to everyone who took the time and effort to enter.

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01 Nov 2014 12:09 #22 by irish-zx10r (James feenan)
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Can't believe I won I have seen loads of great photos since I first joined this forum but I have to say this time every entry were top class and fair play to everyone who took the time to enter this compition and Hugh thanks to Paul and Darkslide for giving these prizes. I might collect my prize in person that way I will get to see Paul's tank. Thanks again

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01 Nov 2014 13:21 #23 by Dihanio (Paulie Hanlon)
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Well done James, well deserved and I echo your sentiments, all top class entries

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01 Nov 2014 21:02 #24 by Q_Comets (Declan Chambers)
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Congrats to winners.

As for the effort of entering, I made plenty of effort but did not get a picture that even came close to the entries.

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01 Nov 2014 23:36 #25 by paulv (paul vickers)
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I want to say a huge thanks to every body that took the time to enter the competition. I enjoyed viewing all the pictures. I choose entry num 8 because it was not only a quality picture but showed the personality of the cichlid. Well done James, pm me how you wish to collect your voucher, in person would be great if your up this way.

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02 Nov 2014 20:40 - 02 Nov 2014 20:40 #26 by Inza (philippe launois)
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Thank Darkslice for the prize, and thank all for participating. Lots of nice pictures in there !

nb 16 is a beautiful fish !
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03 Nov 2014 01:26 #27 by irish-zx10r (James feenan)
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I want to say a huge thanks to every body that took the time to enter the competition. I enjoyed viewing all the pictures. I choose entry num 8 because it was not only a quality picture but showed the personality of the cichlid. Well done James, pm me how you wish to collect your voucher, in person would be great if your up this way.


Looks like I won't have to head to Dublin this week someone is coming down so its going to save a road trip for me. This prize will help add a big male green terror to my Sa collection I will send you a pm Paul thanks.

Can someone tell me what the cichlid in photo no16 is ? Really nice looking fish.
Something fishie going on here

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03 Nov 2014 01:53 #28 by alan 64 (alan)
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would it be some strain of earth eating cichlid

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03 Nov 2014 02:05 - 03 Nov 2014 02:16 #29 by JohnH (John)
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It's a young male Geophagus sp 'Red Tapajos'

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I have sometimes seen them referred to as 'sp Orange Tapajos' as well.
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03 Nov 2014 02:06 #30 by alan 64 (alan)
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think its geophagus surinamensis james

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