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
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Anyone else thinking of brining inverts?
Nice prize up for grabs...... can't tell you what it is though
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I whould give it a try anyway. If you got the time for that
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Now....what is this new class 'Inverts'? what sort of Frogs? and does that also mean Tarantulas (=inverts)?
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From the original post Ian, "All inverts, shrimp, crayfish, frogs, axolotls etc are welcome", it's a novelty class, but it would be fair to say that we expect them to be aquatic or partially aquatic species, so I think that means no Tarantulas and that has nothing to do with the fact that I am not the worlds number 1 spider fan
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Now....what is this new class 'Inverts'? what sort of Frogs? and does that also mean Tarantulas (=inverts)?
ian
From the original post Ian, "All inverts, shrimp, crayfish, frogs, axolotls etc are welcome", it's a novelty class, but it would be fair to say that we expect them to be aquatic or partially aquatic species, so I think that means no Tarantulas and that has nothing to do with the fact that I am not the worlds number 1 spider fan
Daragh[/quote]
That's a pity Daragh.....my OH has a nice selection of rather big Tarantulas (and she is terrified of spiders). Just goes to show.
Never mind, maybe I'll get J to bring some along anyway (maybe just for yourself)
.ian
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thats me in trouble. they had better be in a box with a big lid and a lock on the front or there will be an ambulance outside rather quickly to cart me away. as for amphibians bring them all. 
you have me curious and worried all at the same time
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