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
Congratulations to Zig on his PFK Interview
I have to say though that after people saw your tank at the show last year it started a planted tank revolution in Ireland. Fair play.
Nessa
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Yeah I picked up a copy last week in Easons, I knew it was coming out obviously but I don't subscribe to the magazine, they didnt send me one either!!
I was sent a pm by the editor Jeremy Gaye on a different forum last January asking me could they do a feature on the tank, so I said ok but I didnt write the piece or anything like that, tbh I was dissapointed when I seen it. They really didnt use the pictures well at all IMO, they dont show the scale of the tank because the pictures were badly cropped. The main picture of the finished tank on the back page of the 3 page spread is really cropped, the sides of the tank are missing altogether! all the pictures are badly cropped, I cant understand how they didnt use the finished pictures of the tank in the main center spread and then use the setup pictures smaller on the other page, instead they used the main pictures small and the setup pictures huge, it didn't make sense to me anyway. Aw well it doesn't really matter to me at all tbh but they didn't really show the tank properly IMO, just bad picture editing.
The same tank is going to be featured in Aquascaping World April edition, that should be out by email any day now, it should be interesting to see how the pictures are used in that. I didnt write that either, It will basically be a rehash of the PFK article where it is taken from with a couple of extra bits from me.
In the meantime back in the non celeb real world:P I put this aquascape in a slightly bigger tank , I moved the whole lot lock stock and substrate into the new tank and it works better now I think, the new tank has more depth front to back and the scale works good now, I changed things around slightly as well so Im just waiting for it to grow out a little bit more and then it should be finished.
Drew from Aquatic village is going to get me some Rasbora maculata to stock the tank with for when its finished, I cant wait to get a shoal of those little guys and they should really finish the tank off nicely. Im probably then going to enter it into the 2008 ADA competition.
Thanks folks wasn't expecting this thread at all!!
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Well done peter, its good to see you getting the recognition that you deserve. Lead me not into temptation, For I can find it myself!
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Fr Jack I dont think its possible to get the PFK article online although you can read all about my endeavors here, and despite the persistent rumors I am actually 42:P
this is a rehash of the PFK article where its taken from with all the editing mistakes thrown in!! The pictures are better layed out in this article though especially if you download the PDF version which contains more pictures and info for all the articles featured, if you print it off and stick it together it joins together like a magazine.You can download the PDF file here
www.aquascapingworld.com/magazine/April-...zine/April-2008.html
Or you can read the shortened version here
www.aquascapingworld.com/magazine/April-...th-Peter-Kirwan.html
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