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
STARTING FROM TUESDAY
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You should really read some books before you put a drop of water into your tank... Nobody has said your useless but without reading up on things beforehand this could end up being a costly exercise,not to mention possibly causing stress and pain to living creatures, Do you not think it would be wise to keep freshwater fish for a while,the learning curve is not so severe or expensive !!
,I myself recently returned to fishkeeping after a long break and I intend to one day keep marine fish but I'd imagine it will be in a year or two once I've come backup to speed on things,anyway have a think, read through some of the beginner's threads here and some books and get a feel for whats involved.Good luck...Lar
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Perhaps six months of tropicals would pursuade you otherwise!
You must feel like everyone is telling you not to do your marine project. I know when you want to do something,its hard to go against the plan then. People here arent having a go at you,its important to understand that, however they are giving their advise which is based on years of experience and they have seen it all before.
For example when you are learning how to drive you dont learn on a ferrai, you start on something small. Fish keeping is similar, tropicals are great fish and most people begin with coldwater fish at some stage progress to tropicals and eventually move to marines, the upkeep in marine takes all those years experience garned from the coldwater and tropical fish keeping to get to the level required.
Its something you are intend on doing by the sounds of it, best of luck with it but I urge you to research everything before a drop of water goes into the tank!!
Gavin
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