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
I'd like to buy some Cardinal tetra...but where?
I didn't know there was a place in Tallaght...sure its only up the road!
Right I'll send Serratus a pm so!
Many thanks!
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I'm only have my tropical tank 6 months, but back in the early days when I knew way less, I made the common error of setting up the tank, being ill advised and buying the fish without knowing what a 'cycle' was.
Guess what my 1st fish were?...yes, that’s right, 6 lovely but sensitive Cardinal tetra! Doh!
However, after doing the usual panic research, (barn door closing after horse bolting sort of thing) I worked very, very hard to maintain excellent water stats, doing sometimes up to three water changes a day to ensure that Ammonia & Nitrite were at 0ppm...and after 8 weeks, things started settling down at last.
It was a busy time needless to say...and I'm a stay at home mother too with two little ones running around my ankles!!!
Anyway, I got my 6 Cardinal tetras through all of that only to make another foolish mistake a few months down the line...I added what I thought were heathy fish to the tank without quarantining them first. I was trying to make a shoal of 10 Cardinals.
It turned out they were terribly diseased fish...ouch!
So they took down some of my old guys with them. I was gutted.
I have two still remaining and I would have had friends for them much sooner, only I simply can't find any Cardinals worthy of buying...or else they are not in stock for weeks on end.
So, anyway...thats my story of woe!
I have a feeling I'll be sorted out though this time!
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I may not get there this weekend now after all as I have a sick little one, and as Christmas is kind of in the way, I might actually have to leave it till the New Year.
Id love to have them set up in the quarantine tank though...as sure, I'll see.
But sure, I'll definately have them in the New Year either way.
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I would have been going to the Tallaght branch anyway!Hope your lads are settling in nicely?
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