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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

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29 Jun 2014 16:24 #1 by dyco619 (steve carmody)
a texas cichlid that ive had for about 6 years died yesterday,
he had been fine then suddenly made a mad dash around the tank whacked his head off the tank a few times so hard that he sent water splashing out of the tank, it was really violent !! he wasnt spooked, he hide behind some bogwood as was dead in the morning.

was wondering can anyone give me any insight as to why this happened or if it has happened to anyone else??

any help much appreciated

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29 Jun 2014 17:05 #2 by hammie (Neil Hammerton)
Replied by hammie (Neil Hammerton) on topic fish death
A friend of mine had a texas cichlid for about the same length of time, and it done the same thing! Just itself a breeding partner in the tank (500l tank), just himself and myself in the room and we were sitting watching a fishing program so there was no loud noise or anything!
At the time we couldnt explain it

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29 Jun 2014 17:15 #3 by Miamiheat (Stephane Lemaire)

a texas cichlid that ive had for about 6 years died yesterday,
he had been fine then suddenly made a mad dash around the tank whacked his head off the tank a few times so hard that he sent water splashing out of the tank, it was really violent !! he wasnt spooked, he hide behind some bogwood as was dead in the morning.

was wondering can anyone give me any insight as to why this happened or if it has happened to anyone else??

any help much appreciated


did you check your water parameters?
I had a Discus doing that for a while, he even jumped out of the tank through a gap and i found him (immediately) on top of the tank out of the water. This happened many times over a few weeks and only stopped when i treated it for parasites. I still have him and he is a happy fish.

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