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
ITFS Fish Show for 2010
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I had plans to do setup for this show but the plants have not arrived in time. So we were stuck with a tree and wahtever I could find on my windowsill.
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Mickey I forgot to point it out to you on the day and I dont know if you saw it. I put up one of your articles on the back wall about the life expectancy of fish. Your byline was on it. I had intended on putting up more articles and pictures but I ran out of time.
I cant believe that we were there from early saturday morning to 11.30 sunday night and I ran out of time.....oh well. I am still brain dead to day and have a whole kitchen full of stuff to sort out and put away so back to it.
Thanks to all that came and helped and of course the sponsors who displayed in the hall. And shame on you that went to the beach
Nessa
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Johnh I am glad you got home safely. I was concerned about you after being up all night benching fish and then having to drive home after along day at the show. Hope your fish all got home in good shape too
Glad to say that my own fish made it home safe and some are even in good form today and hungry which is a good sign. Although when I am looking into the tanks you can see the nervous scatter now that they know there could be a big journey and a lot of people looking at them.
nessa
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oh I dont know norrie the rainbows were amazing but the lads are pretty tasty too.
Johnh I am glad you got home safely. I was concerned about you after being up all night benching fish and then having to drive home after along day at the show. Hope your fish all got home in good shape too
Glad to say that my own fish made it home safe and some are even in good form today and hungry which is a good sign. Although when I am looking into the tanks you can see the nervous scatter now that they know there could be a big journey and a lot of people looking at them.
nessa
Thanks for the concern Nessa, no problem getting back - although the last ten to fifteen minutes were a bit of a nightmare. Commonsense tells you to pull over for a short nap, but the little 'demon' up there in what's left of my brain kept suggesting it was only 'just around the corner'. Anyway we got home, but ashamed to admit the fish were only floated for the night, released today.
All were well, like yours, apart from two Kribs which went to meet their maker en route home - to be honest they never looked brilliant when being bagged before departing. A real pity, but the consolation (for me, not the poor deceased fish) is that I still have the rest of the brood, so they'll soon be replaced.
I'm so very sorry you and the others had to stay on until so late - I ought to have stayed on and offered to help but fatigue had well and truly taken over by the time I did depart!
I would like to add my thanks to everyone who helped both set up the Show, run it efficiently, then dismantle the whole shebang after...you all know who you are.
I thought, too, that it was brilliant that the lads from the LFKS mucked in and gave a great deal of help, we would have been it the proverbial without them.
Thanks, too, to Paul - as usual his sterling help in the huge amount of work he does to make these Shows work as well as they do is often forgotten when all the plaudits are handed out - Paul, you're a star!
Last, but by no means least, we must give thanks to the Judges who spend hours 'doing their thing'
- take a bow, lads!
John
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N. Tipp
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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It's a long way to Tipperary.
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