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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Are actually members off the ITFS?
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fishkeeping re the clubs seems to go in cycles and needs a regular influx of new members to keep the interest high and this in turn encourages more of an interest in forums.
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We meet the second Tuesday of every month in Rosy O'gradys in Harold's cross Dublin. So that's the 15th of April for the next meeting. All are welcome.
You can contact Andrew the club Secretary for more info.
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is there many going on the 5th of April i would love to go as i am a member but havent being to a meetin as off yet
but now i have very Tuesday off so can make the trip from navan
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It's a real pity that the likes of Derek, D. Owens, Platy, John H, etcetera don't post that often anymore. I've never seen such good quality posts anywhere on any forum to match theres.
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I agree that the quality of the posts from the above and a few others are sadly missed and i would love to see a return of at least some to the forum. platy, d owens and johnh are all very experienced fishkeepers and good writers as are ianmilichip and stretnik. but what i like about all of these posters is that their writing is believable and based on experience and not spoofy or deluded.
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As an aside, but somewhat related, I was chatting to someone somewhere (I won't mention usernames

I did laugh and explained that that 'weird' username is just the initials of my name plus surname (any guesses as to my middle name 'g'?)

@Draco...are you popping along to the next meeting? I don't think we have met before.
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does the g stand for gregory or geoffrey?
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@ian, platy is darren and goldy is nessa and the rest you know.
does the g stand for gregory or geoffrey?
Actually, apart from the people who use their real names (eg John G, Andrew and Yourself), it is only Platy and Goldy who I can relate the real person to the username. The others, I simply do not know their usernames.
'Geoffrey' just reminds me of that bloke off Rainbow. Nope.

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@ian, platy is darren and goldy is nessa and the rest you know.
does the g stand for gregory or geoffrey?
Actually, apart from the people who use their real names (eg John G, Andrew and Yourself), it is only Platy and Goldy who I can relate the real person to the username. The others, I simply do not know their usernames.
'Geoffrey' just reminds me of that bloke off Rainbow. Nope.
Im Offened Ian you put me in heiko bleher good books with the Zebra Danios id and you have never joined the dark side im sure for another water talk we can get you a freebee membership
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@ian, platy is darren and goldy is nessa and the rest you know.
does the g stand for gregory or geoffrey?
Actually, apart from the people who use their real names (eg John G, Andrew and Yourself), it is only Platy and Goldy who I can relate the real person to the username. The others, I simply do not know their usernames.
'Geoffrey' just reminds me of that bloke off Rainbow. Nope.
Im Offened Ian you put me in heiko bleher good books with the Zebra Danios id and you have never joined the dark side im sure for another water talk we can get you a freebee membership
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Do you mean the Barilius? you'll have to tell us more on you getting into Bleher's good books.
I didn't think anyone could cope with another marathon water session.

Maybe some of the forums here should have a 'mugs-shots' thread. But that is for someone to start said thread.
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I am a member but making the time to post just seems to get harder all the time.
Having watched you work the floors and Tanks of Seahorse, it surprises me you have time for anything by the time you get home.
Your advice, both in person and via pm or on the Forum has always been amazing and always spot on.
Thanks Darren.
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I am a member but making the time to post just seems to get harder all the time.
Having watched you work the floors and Tanks of Seahorse, it surprises me you have time for anything by the time you get home.
Your advice, both in person and via pm or on the Forum has always been amazing and always spot on.
Thanks Darren.
Kev.
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anyone lookin to join PM john gannon and he will sort u out
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