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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

Mixing Species and Care

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22 Jan 2008 11:23 #31 by Sean (Fr. Jack)
JohnH wrote:

Personally I think it's time now to draw a veil over this...Fr Jack, Fr Goldfinger, Fr Oddjob, Fr James Bond, Fr frozen Clownfish, Fr non-Google, Fr where's the ITFS logo gone, Fr Columbo...or whatever Fr you are tonight, please re-read Russell's very first posting, here he states plainly that in the wild discus can have to contend with temperatures of anything between 80 - 100degrees and in water with pH values of anything between pH7 right down to below pH3 !!! Nowhere does he recommend this though, in fact his recommendation is - even for wild fish - pH 6.5...I fear your mischievous element has taken you just a little too far this time and, I hate to say it, the whole argument has become just a little tedious.

I hope this isn't construed as a personal attack, it's not, I'm really a bit browned off with it (the attacks) and I suspect I'm not the only one?
John


Hi John,
if we all agree that Discus are better kept in or around 6pH ish great I agree to thats to. , but even if Discus some times live in 3pH in the wild, which I am sure they do, but I just wanted the link to back it up,(preferably a link dated before the post;)
I would of liked Russel it re iterated he does not advise this in cavity as a new comer could be mislead with this statement, besides Anthouny and Holger thought it was a irresponsible to post 3.5-3.8pH to!, they could not back me due to technical reasons.
I appolise for my lunatic post or grapphic borderline insane humorous posts, I Will save them and share them with my fellow member in the eccentric euro forum I moderate:P

I know this this is not an attack as I help motivate you to post again and even wanted you to me the next Pope:laugh:

How ever there is three type of posters,

The outrageous banter type posters that gets the forum to get the views and build new members, volatile almost radioactive unstable, Th's could be credited to Conway, Herman and Connolly. If too many stones are through on the track they may derail.

The ideal poster, that post little but post quality, such as Lampeye etc this should be encouraged, perhaps the dead poster may change into ideal posters;) .

The dead poster, says hello to new members, ID fish such as Latin names of African, and back up ideal poster \"fair play to you, or I back that up on that one\" some of these are experts but of fear of being taking of a pinnacle point, limit the post to one liners and gets no views, perhaps some a automatic computer generated:unsure:

That would be a ecumenical matter!!!

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