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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18 Jan 2008 07:41 #1 by Cichlidenwelt (Cichlidenwelt)

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Hello forum readers,

AS many of you know, is that the regions of West and Centralafrica are very unstable, years of civilunrest and corruption are a main factor for this.

On the aquatic front, its become very quiet, not only new imports but old favorites are hard to get. At the very best we are only getting surprise imports and an improvement is not in sight.

Also a reduction in hobbyists keeping rheophile cichlids from this region is making them very hard to get, we can see this from an old favorate \"Steatocranus Casusrius\".

Dr. Anton Lamboj spoke to me at a fishfair in Friedrichhafen (Germany) about this and if we were intrested in a conservation program for the rheophile cichlids from this region. The Cichlidwelt Forum naturaly agreed, so that the populations with the current stock would be protected.

With that the Conservation program \"Rheopiler Cichlids\" was born. Dr Anton Lamboj AS many know is a speicalist on West African cichlids and we agree on his views on this troubled area.

He is also the founder of the \"Aquarium Conservation Program\"

The \"Aquarium Conservation Program\" is a database of which fish are kept and bred in the aquariums of the general public. It is also a way of finding out what fish have been bred and a way to distribute the young fish to other hobbyists so that the aquariums population can be maintained.

We are intrested in hearing from any hobbyist that wants to help us in building this database, by getting in touch with their current stock of wild and bred fish. Its the first step in maintaining our hobby.

We are also intrested in hearing from hobbyist that keep rheophile cichlids from the west and centralafrican region so that we can trade fish to make AS wide a genepool AS possible for the spieces Lamprologus, Steatocranus, Teleogramma etc.

It would be a shame if we lost current aquarium populations for ever, help us now that we can help future generations of hobbyists.

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