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

Off to the airport!

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ipcompto (Ian Compton)
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12 Sep 2012 07:46 #1 by ipcompto (Ian Compton)

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Jumped out of bed early today as usual......fish will be arriving in a few hours .....my man says the fish look beautiful well he'd better not be lying the 200 x 4 inch africans better be nice looking forward to seeing them and all the discus....but the devil cats i cant wait to get me hands on them so fingers crossed murphys law has a habit of scuttling favourites...the mekong cats better not be fully grown by the time i get them too....Peru hopefully in two weeks....hope piranha fry dont hatch today got some much to do..still have two pallets of ornaments to unpack a fish house to get ready even though i have cleared one entirely to house this shipment.....jesus busy busy just like the old days......i sent off for a quote for an 8 foot by four foot acrylic circular tank 5700 litres will probably cost an arm and both legs but we shall see will have to start saving none the less.....A customer gave me the most stunning xxxxl guppies im gona keep and breed them moscow blacks included and females as big as your finger....about 50 of them...so much for extreme fishkeeping...ah well if u love fish u gotta love em all...i suppose this is my feminine side coming to the fore front...anyways the shop is so well stocked that its hard to move about i bought 36 fluval edges and chi's the other day and a 18 x 60 litre tanks...i need more room......so the plan is ?I think i will take a good look at the place and change it round and maybe add another module to it...so out with pen and paper....phase two....plans a hatching u gotta think big everyone loves a trier....
Have a nice day every body mine is going to be long long long but bring it onnnn!
IAn

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12 Sep 2012 10:30 #2 by BillG (Bill Gray)

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Happy days Ian, hope your wee monsters arrive safe and sound! thats some acrylic tank, should not cost much more that a couple of thousand

From the dimensions you mentioned, its not too clear, is it 8' tall and 4' diameter, or the other way around? either way a damn impressive tank. No doubt you plan on filligh such a tank with hundreds of guppies too :whistle: