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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

Stressed Puffer Fish - Help!

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30 Dec 2014 19:46 #1 by KMcGuire (Kieran McGuire)
Hey lads,

Hopefully someone can help me. I got a puffer fish a couple of weeks ago and have had it in a 8x2x2 tank out in my fish shed. I've only had him in with a catfish in the tank, and have put in some driftwood for cover etc.

He seems to be stressed or depressed or something, he's not been eating much so I brought him into the house in much smaller tank for a few days and his appetite improved and he was back to normal so after a week or so I moved him back out to the big tank in the shed. However the other day when I was changing the water he went belly up and I thought he was a goner and so I've moved him back into the small tank in the house but now 4 days later he's barely moving and not eating much at all.

I've a custom build shed with a two 8x2x2's in and have piranha in the other tank. I have a bulb on constantly out there but am starting to think that the constant light might be upsetting him? He was in a pet shop before I bought him so I'm also wondering if he might be a bit lonely & missing seeing people coming and going being out in the shed? Or maybe I need to put some more fish in with him?

Any advice anyone could give me would be really appreciated as I'd be gutted to lose him

Thanks

K

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17 Jan 2015 21:07 #2 by paulcavan (Paul Gileoold)
hi how is the fish now any updates

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