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
Fish surgery audio link with pictures
Bit scary the thought of turberculosis in your tank though, I presume its transmittable to humans?
The 4 little box's at the top are the different segments, it will play continiously if you just let it flow.
Don't watch it before dinner
enjoy! (ain't to bad)www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3214/04-rx-flash.html
Just to add it requires a flash player, download that and the link works fine.
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Madam I'm afraid we're going to lose your fancy gold fish, unless of coarse you have €120,000 for the life saving operation, the chemo, the physio and the hospital bed...private obviously.
Or you could chuck him in the bin and I'll sell ya another one for €2.50
Good find zig. 
Mark
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It was arranged for me by a friend that was a marine biologist and knoew someone in Abbotstown. I don't think it was standard service. :shock: The guy in the fouth clip needs to get a life or install a lighting conductor.Daragh
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I had a tumor removed from a 4 inch goldfish (it was a comet too) about 17 years ago int eh fisheries research centre in Abbotstown. There was no fancy equipment at all. Fish was put asleep put on a bread board, scapel out, tumor off and after packing wound with white powder back in a bucket of fresh water. All done in a couple of minute. The fish survived and went on to be a daddy
Daragh
Interesting Daragh, in a different life/career I did a good few jobs out in Abbotstown back in the day, did a lot of jobs in the laboratory section, checking for BSE in cows was the main activity they got up to as far as I could see, this was just prior to the mad cow disease outbreak in the UK, we weren't allowed in after that, say those boys were kept busy then!
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