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
Denisonii Barbs
My water parameters are fine and I'm a very experienced fish keeper (even though this is my first post here).
I had some about a year ago and they didn't last at all. Any fish I've bought from this shop and it's the same. They keep dying on me. I hadn't bought fish from this shop in over a year but I decided to try them again as they have such a wide selection.
I won't be going back.
Has anybody had any joy with Denisonii Barbs or am I just unlucky. The fish that died seemed to have a red patch on it. There is another one looking the same and will probably be dead in the morning. I'll take a photo and post it here when he dies.
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This time last week I had a thriving tank with some beautiful fish in it, now it's a disaster zone. I'm gutted
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Really sorry to hear that Yasser. It is very disheartening when you have everything running smoothly and a new addition to the set-up ruins it all:(This time last week I had a thriving tank with some beautiful fish in it, now it's a disaster zone. I'm gutted
I do not know if you have seen the recent thread about fish tanks for sale in Aldi this weekend but they seem perfect to use as a quarantine tank, if you have not got one already.
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I retested the water and the readings are still the same as the previous post and I also used a second test kit and got the same results.
I've been treating the tank with Myaxazin and did a 50% water change before I started the treatment.
The shop offered to replace the 3 Barbs that died (it was 3 when they contacted me), but I declined their offer.
All 6 Barbs have died and all that remains in my tank is 2 large Angel Fish (which don't look their normal self) and about 5 Cardinal Tetra's which also look the worse for wear.
I've just returned from my usual fish shop where they had gotten in some Denisonii Barbs. If only I'd have waited another week and this disaster might have been averted
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