Where is everybody?

[Austy16414]

From the looks of it, it seems like activity on here has significantly decreased over the last few years. What's the deal? Or am I mistaken? Only been on here a year or so

[gambs]

Just me posting sales lol

[gambs]

African cichlid hub is a cool place. Lots of active people just talking fish

[Austy16414]

Lol stop clogging up the buy, sell, trade man! I'll have to look into that, sometimes I just wanna act like I don't have work to do and talk fish

[gambs]

Ya its a cool place. I started a build thread on my 135 mbuna tank. Tons of people comment and talk about it. Started one on here and not one comment lol

[troy tucker]

It has slowed in the past couple of years. But I got a job. And my place in Matagorda. I just don't post as much.

[Austy16414]

Ya its a cool place. I started a build thread on my 135 mbuna tank. Tons of people comment and talk about it. Started one on here and not one comment lol

That was a sweet build, came out really nice. It got some nice attention on the cichlid club. I'm gonna use your algae trick someday soon

[Austy16414]

It has slowed in the past couple of years. But I got a job. And my place in Matagorda. I just don't post as much.

You're still pretty active though Troy, relatively at least. I'm starting to think it may just be a race to Dagon, then people become apathetic since there's no other goal to obtain

[moganman]

That's not it. There was a lot that took place on the site prior to now. There were new rules, people were banned, and people lost interest. There is a wealth of knowledge within the archives of this site. I have been a member for several years and I've seen the heights of it and it was mostly because of drama (me included). On the sale threads there was a time when we could reply directly to the threads and then it started to get ugly. People were buying fish and reselling for profits, people were giving lowball offers on things, and there were always fights. The mods and owner decided to attempt to prevent this by issuing bans, (temporary and permanent), and by not allowing people to reply to the sale threads.

[moganman]

And also it has to do with Tropheus. back in the early and mid 2000s the tropheus hype was really high. Prices were high, and not many people actually had them. Now everyone has them and most can successfully keep and breed them. There's not much to be excited about or to brag on. People just keep their fish and stay to themselves.

[Austy16414]

I've seen firsthand how the buy and sell posts get ugly quick, so that makes total sense. It sucks that it had to come to that, but at least the site is still up and running. Hard to believe there was a time when trophs were rare considering how much they've taken over the market now lol I've been trying to figure out what happened by looking through old posts, but had no luck. Much appreciated man

[troy tucker]

All of the bad posts have been deleted. I remember. It wasn't all me! but it was pretty ugly.

[originalhandy]

Glad I missed all that, it's a good small community here. Tonnes of info here, I've spent hours just reading.

I'm sure it'll grow again.

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[johnnymisty]

Ya I remember the rough an tough days of old was fun and exicting to watch a post go from 0 to 500 in about an hour or so

[SunnyHouTX]

Ninjas