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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Partner: Justine (also a fish-keeper)
Started Keeping Fish: 1972.
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This photo of me and Justine (my partner) was taken 3 years ago; we haven’t changed much since then (apart from removing the birthday party hats)
Justine is not a member of this or any other forum.
Societies……
Justine and I are both members of the Irish Tropical Fish Society (ITFS). I speak (on this forum) for both my and Justine’s fish.
On a related society, I am co-founder and Chairperson of The Herpetological Society of Ireland; Justine stood in for me as Chairperson for a year, and is now Treasurer of the H.S.I. And that is important as that means we can easily join activities of both interests.
I was a member and founder of a number of aquatic societies or study societies in the UK (so many many years ago)
First Ever Fish: Telescopic-Eyed Black Moor (1972)
First Tropical Fish: Opaline Gourami (1972)
First Marine Fish: Either a Humbug Damsel or a Domino Damsel (1972)
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Main Fish Group:
Cichlids have been my main group of interest over the years, and the family from which I have kept the most species (especially when I concentrated on Rift Valley Cichlids)
I keep very few cichlids since moving to Ireland.
Other Main Fish Groups of Interest:
Characoids; “Killifish”; Bettas and other “Anabantoids”; and air-breathing fish.
My present selection of fish is more generic rather than the more specialised keeping I used to do. (I’ll post a list of present fish soon)
Main Aquatic Plant Groups of interest:
Cryptocoryne (and splinter genera) and Aponogeton.
Main Aquatic Topic:
Water chemistry and designing of test and filtration equipment; nutrition; and pathology.
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~Anabantoids (not gourami)
Siamese Fighting Fish
Betta rutilans
Ctenopoma acutirostre (leopard climbing perch)
Betta coccina
Betta uberis kubu
Betta albimarginata
~Odd-Balls
Schleropages jardini (Saratoga = Australian Pearl Arowana)
Silver Arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum)
African Lung Fish
Polypterus endlicheri
Polypterus delhezi
Polypterus teugelsi
African Mudskipper (Periophthalmus barbarus)
Vietnamese Mudskipper (Periophthalmodon septemradiatus)
Periophthalmus novemradiatus (dwarf Mudskipper)
small Spiney Eel things !! (I can't remember its name in other words)
Pumpinkseed Bass (sunfish) (Lepomis gibbosus)
Stonefish
African Brown Knife Fish
Stiphodon elegans
Hypseleotris compressa (Empire Gudgeon)
Iriatherina werneri (Threadfin Rainbowfish)
Dwarf Neon Rainbowfish - Melanotaenia praecox
Brienomyrus niger (african whale fish)
Gymnotus carapo (?)
Monocirrhus polyacanthus
Badis badis
Parambassis pulcinella (humphead glassfish)
Parambassis ranga (glassfish)
Tetradon miurus (Congo Puffer)
Channa bleheri
~Cichlids
Uaru
Steatocranus tinanti
Steatocranus casuarius
Teleogramma brichardi
Geophagus brasiliensis
Bolivian Ram (Microgeophagus altispinosus)
Rams (M. ramirezi)
Geophagus steindachneri
Discus (various man-made and wild)
Geophagus altifrons
Angel fish
Apistogramma pandourini
Nanochromis transvestitis
Geophagus balzini
Laetacara dorsigera (Red-Breasted Acara)
Wild Angel Fish (red Spot)
Wild Green Discus
Pelvicachromis pulcher
Angel fish (Peruvian wild)
Apistogramma agassizii
~Catfish
Hoplosternum
Corydoras sterbai
Corydoras melanii
Corydoras panda
Corydoras melanistus
Microsynodontis
Synodontis multipunctatus
Ancitrus
~Characoids (not Tetras)
Myloplus rubripinnis (Red Hook Pacu)
Myloplus rubripinnis (Bleeding Heart regional variation)
Spotted Hatchets (Gasteropelecus maculatus)
Silver Hatchet
Carnegiella myersi
Carnegiella marthae
Thoracocharax securis (or stellatus?)
Crenuchus spilurus
Leporinis
Metynnis luna
Charax gibossus
Nannostomus beckfordi
Poecilocharax weitzmani
Hemiodus gracilis
Copella arnoldi
Pyrrhulina laeta
Erythrinus erythrinus. Red Wolf Fish
Metynnis hypsauchen
Metynnis maculatus
Red Belly Piranha (Pygocentrus)
~Cyprinids
Goldfish (a few varieties)
Cyprinella lutrensis (dace)
Asian Rummy Nose (Sawbwa resplendens)
Various Hillstream loaches (some identified, some not, and some I never see)
Harlequin rasbora (Trigonostigma heteromorpha)
Brachydanio rerio (zebra danio)
~Gourami
Lace Gourami
Chocolate Gourami (Sphaerichthys osphromenoides)
The other Chocolate Gourami (Sphaerichthys vaillanti)
Honey Gourami (Colisa chuna = Tricogaster chuna)
Trichopsis schalleri (three line croaking gourami)
Indian gourami
"Red Robin" gourami (a hybrid thing….but nice fish)
Trichopsis vittatus (croaking gourami)
Sparkling gourami (Trichopsis pumila)
Dwarf Gourami (Colisa lalia)
Parosphromenus Blue-Line
~Livebearers
Platy
Guppies (Endlers)
Molly (Black)
~Tetras
cardinal tetra
neon tetra
Emperor Tetra (Nematobrycon palmeri)
Hyphessobrycon pyrrhonotus (red back bleeding heart tetra..wild)
Brachychalcinus orbicularis (Poptella Tetra)
Hemigrammus filamentosus (Phoenix Tetra)
Hyphessobrycon erythrostigma (wild)
Nematobrycon lacortei
Inpaichthys kerri. Purple Emperor Tetra
Glowlight
~”Killifish”
Aphyoseomion gabunense
Aphyosemion striatum
Aphyosemion gardeneri
Aphyosemion sjoestedi
Aphyosemion bivittatum
Nothobranchus rachovii
Nothobranchus rubripinnis
Nothobranchius eggersi (ruvu river)
Nothobranchius guentheri
Nothobranchius foerschi
Pseudepiplatys annulatus (Clown Killi)
Simpsonichthys nielseni
American Flag Fish (Jordonella floridae)
Aphyosemion australe
Hysolebias gibberatus
Austrolebias nigripinnis
various killifish eggs around the place from demised adults
~Marines
Amphiprion ocellaris (nemo fish)
Premnas biaculeatus (maroon clownfish)
Synchiropus splendidus (Mandarin fish)
Stonogobiops yasha (Yasha Goby)
Salarias ramosus (Starry blenny)
Antennarius maculatus (Warty Clown Frogfish) (white)
Antennarius maculatus (Warty Clown Frogfish) (Black)
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Paulv beat me too it! Some list Ian, love the hat too!Jeesus ian your list of fish would put any LFS to shame.
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You are a handsome devil
Secondly that is. Some fish list
Third,as you may gather from the first if I have
Something to say il say it!
Can I see your set up please?
Anyone with a aquarium can keep fish,
But it takes real skill to be a fish keeper,
And it's spongeBob,
SpongeBob lives in a pineapple under the sea
BLANCHARDSTOWN
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Stuart.
Multi tasking: Screwing up more than one thing at a time.
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My ones have the record for the shyest fish in the country!!
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Something fishie going on here
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That's some list - fair play to you for maintaining so many fish.
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We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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Our set-ups are in a bit of a mess at present since we moved home a while ago. I didn't get around to setting up all of the bigger tanks, and that has had a domino effect of housing and limiting the expansion towards my previous set-ups.
I do not think that I will ever get to the size of the set-up I had in the UK (unless I win the lottery and open a public aquarium).
Spidermonkey, I still have some weitzmani left from last year.....most that died died within the first day or two, but once that initial move was over then settled. No breeding though (and that was the main aim).
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I recognise the faces though from a time we had a day out in dunlaoirghaie (spelling) shortly after feis shop opened and I passed yous on that street... although not seeing your face previously something told me it was you
Sorry for the ramble but alot of things tend to stick In my head
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Stuart.
Multi tasking: Screwing up more than one thing at a time.
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I'm not sure if we have met any other time or not.
@Wylam.....Justine can be a bad influence on me at times......she was pestering to get yet another Uaru today in addition to the bush fish and another piranha (but did question the size of some dwarf cichlids I got to day !!).
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Is there any chance of seeing some photos of how it's all organized?
Andreas
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@Davey_C......I am mystified as to how someone can guess me from writings on a forum. Do I really look that eccentric and mad?
I'm not sure if we have met any other time or not
I have to admit, the first time I saw you (in Seahorse) I knew who you were without being told
I now have an ambition to own and breed at least one fish you don't have.
(I also briefly misread dart frogs as fart dogs... a less popular breed than you'd think!)
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@daveyc: fully agree with you. Knew Ian was Ian from in here when I saw him in seahorse.....don't know why but just knew....
I'm starting to get worried now......I've heard of people starting to lool like their dog, but not their writing.
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@daveyc: fully agree with you. Knew Ian was Ian from in here when I saw him in seahorse.....don't know why but just knew....
I'm starting to get worried now......I've heard of people starting to lool like their dog, but not their writing.
I think it's that you look more or less like people expect you to look like
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@daveyc: fully agree with you. Knew Ian was Ian from in here when I saw him in seahorse.....don't know why but just knew....
I'm starting to get worried now......I've heard of people starting to lool like their dog, but not their writing.
I think it's that you look more or less like people expect you to look like
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@daveyc: fully agree with you. Knew Ian was Ian from in here when I saw him in seahorse.....don't know why but just knew....
I'm starting to get worried now......I've heard of people starting to lool like their dog, but not their writing.
I think it's that you look more or less like people expect you to look like
Sorta got it in 1 and looks like mrjackdempsey had a similar experience
Seriously though if I hada been certain though I possibly would have introduced myself personally but there's always next time
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30 tanks specialise in african cichlids, angelfish and various catfish
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same word came in my mindJeesus ian your list of fish would put any LFS to shame.
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Lighting is always a problem for video with some of these fish as most are in peaty tanks with no lighting.
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