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
Irish-zx10r Member Profile Page
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user name: irish-zx10r
real name: james feenan
location: tullamore co offlay
work experience:
landscape gardner in athlone along with
10 yrs hydralic fitter and engine builder
powerscreen in kilbeggan
last 10 yrs sterilisor opperator
covidien helathcare work as fitter and small bit of computers
Car: 00 subaru impreza version 6 type r
motorbike: kawasaki zx10r for every day use and work.
like fly fishing and canal fishing
my tank's and fish's
600L Malawi african cichlids
190L South American tank upgrade soon to 500L
America cichlids My list
Not sure how many
Severums , chocolate cichlid
young Tiger Oscar
breeding pair of jd
stick catfish few other catfish
110L african cichlid fry tank
goldfish and koi 200L move to the pond soon
my pond 10,000L work in progress
600L Malawi african cichlids fish
1 male Firefish Peacock
1 male orange zebra cichlid
1 male Cobalt Blue Zebra cichlid
1 male yellow tail Acei cichlid
1 male 3 female Flavus
1 Male 3 female white tail acei
2 male 3 female lellow labs
1 male 1 female metriaclima greshakei
1 male 1 female cynotilapia afra jalo reef
1 male 2 female Pseudotropheus socolofi albino Snowflake
1 male 2 female Pseudotropheus sp. Elongatus Chewere
Victs
1 male 2 female Zebra Obliquidens
1 male 3 female red tail sheller
1 male 1 female yellow belly albert
1 Astatotilapia latifasciata male
1 Haplochromis sp. 44 male
pleco L001
1 upside down catfish
1 talking catfish
HAPS: Copadichromis borleyi 1male, 3females
Nimbochromis venustus
Steveni Taiwan (Taiwan Reef) male
Protomelas taeniolatus male
Nimbochromis fuscotaeniatus male
Clown loaches x2
1 rope eel
lemmon bristle nose
My YouTube page few mad clips in there before i got into fish keeping lol
www.youtube.com/user/irishzx9r/videos
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.Great mix of fish and tanks you got.
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James you must have started work as a child to fit in 30 yrs working and still look like a young lad
Great mix of fish and tanks you got.
I had about 7 yrs work done again I was even 18 and the only lad going to school that earned near 200 pound
I worked planting trees in the evening and gardening every weekend got cash in hand then from 18 on I worked with engine and hydraulics after ten year of that I moved to servicing lorry's and crains that only lasted a few weeks and after that it was a pipe and slipper job in medical health care all I have to do now is make sure everything is working ok.
Going to be a big change selling up all the tropical fish and tanks only going to keep cichlids
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Some really nice set ups there
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James your very handy on that ninja, should tom sykes be worried
If it was not for all the kids I be famous lol seen a few good friends pass away from it two wheels are not all that safe as u all may know. I think the fish have quieten me down a peg or two
just after setting up a 90L with under gravel filter system and the 350L is looking great and all the fish look very happy with the move from the 190L
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James you must have started work as a child to fit in 30 yrs working and still look like a young lad
Great mix of fish and tanks you got.
I think i got it right this time 10 years hydralic and engine builder with 5 years landscaping throwing into the mix 10 years here in covidien as sterilisor operator started work at 16 lol
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update on my age 30.8
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If you update yours - I'll update mine !
Good idea lol lots of changes in one year.
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