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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
New fish discovered in Vietnam
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Valerie (Valerie)
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29 Aug 2012 13:28 #1
by Valerie (Valerie)
Apparently discovered in 2009, it was categorised/described this month.
A new species of fish with a penis on its head has been identified in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, researchers said on Wednesday.
Phallostethus cuulong is the newest member of the Phallostethidae family -- small fish found in Southeast Asian waters that are distinguished primarily by the positioning of the male sexual organ.
Male phallostethids have a copulatory organ, termed the priapium, under the throat for holding or clasping onto females and fertilising their eggs internally, according to conservationists.
"We have scientifically identified a new penis-head fish in Vietnam," researcher Tran Dac Dinh from Can Tho University told AFP.
The fish was known to Vietnamese people in the Mekong Delta but had not been described scientifically before a team identified the species last year, he said.
ph.news.yahoo.com/penis-head-fish-discov...etnam-110819973.html
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29 Aug 2012 13:35 #2
by mech1 (pat bell)
The Guppies are giggling in the corner.
Knocklyon 2 min from J12 M50
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29 Aug 2012 17:05 #5
by igmillichip (ian millichip)
Who on earth designed that fish?
and no jokes or puns entered my head (or mouth).
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29 Aug 2012 22:29 #6
by woodstock500 (Robert Glascott)
I've been trying to think of some joke involving cross breeding these with a,Mouthbrooder but just can't keep it clean enough for a family forum, sorry! Nice find though!
Rob
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14 Sep 2012 18:27 - 14 Sep 2012 18:27 #7
by MichaeLO (MichaeLO)
..some of the *rare male humans have long nose which attract many female.Not sure what the reason but it make them very happy.
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14 Sep 2012 22:00 - 14 Sep 2012 22:09 #8
by stretnik (stretnik)
Now THAT'S what I call an evolutionary Cock up ! Probably due to Agent Orange or Mercury Poisoning ;o)
Kev.
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15 Sep 2012 08:15 #9
by sheag35 (Seamus Gillespie)
now what i want to know is what Valerie was searching for when she found this

lol
I have the perfect name for this fish "the Politician fish"
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15 Sep 2012 09:29 #10
by igmillichip (ian millichip)
I recon Valerie has an odd sense of humour......to see how far this thread would go down the sewers before hitting the real level of toilet humour.
Of course, I'm sure it will all stay "tongue"-in-cheek humour. !!
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15 Sep 2012 11:28 - 15 Sep 2012 11:29 #11
by sheag35 (Seamus Gillespie)
lol sorry Ian couldnt resist that

it was there to be said
Fishkeeping the Only way to get wet and wild
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15 Sep 2012 14:28 #12
by Valerie (Valerie)
now what i want to know is what Valerie was searching for when she found this
lol
I have the perfect name for this fish "the Politician fish"
I recon Valerie has an odd sense of humour......to see how far this thread would go down the sewers before hitting the real level of toilet humour. 
Of course, I'm sure it will all stay "tongue"-in-cheek humour. !!
Found this news very innocently while surfing the www ... I posted it to test you all and you all passed the test with flying colours ...
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