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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

anemone and shrimp from the beach

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20 Sep 2016 16:54 #1 by Jonlate (Jon Late)
Hi everyone marine,
I am in Westport at the moment having a few days away, and today while walking along the beach, looking in the rock pools, I wondered......
Can I put this stuff into my marine tank?
I saw loads of shrimp, many over 3 inches long. Lots of very small yellow snails. And plenty of anemones.
Can I relocate a few of these to my tank, or will the tempture difference kill them off?
What do you think?
Answers on a postcard....I suppose posted here would be ok as well.
Thanks.

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20 Sep 2016 17:38 #2 by JohnH (John)
In the absence of any replies (so far) I seem to recall reading that most native marine Anemones are very temperature intolerant - I'm assuming the same applies to the snails, shrimps and prawns as well.
Hopefully there will be more well-versed-in-the-subject members along later to give you better advice, but that's 'as I read it'.

John

Location:
N. Tipp

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.


ITFS member.



It's a long way to Tipperary.

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20 Sep 2016 22:28 #3 by Sukahn (Shane Doorley)
I am not very key'd up on native marine but as far as i can remember the temp for native marine is around 16-18 degrees which is alot lower than what you would have in your marine tank.

Also i think the water conditions themselves are very different for native marines to tropic marine. But then again i only know a limited amount on native so hopefully there is someone with a native tank here on the forums who can help you out.

Would be interesting to know the proper answer.

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