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Please take a moment to read through this discussion if you are having trouble posting or have other basic questions about how our forum works. Here are some links to find more help about using the forum (if you don't find what you need in this discussion thread). Forum Rules Link to configure...

In the past day we've been working to update the forum to a new software platform and we've been offline. Welcome back! The new forum software is called Xenforo and there are some new features and functions. LOGIN CHANGE: Your account can be accessed by logging in with your e-mail address or...

We are finally ready to convert the forum to new software. To do this we'll need to close the forum. This is scheduled for March 5-6, beginning very early in the morning (subject to change if there are complications). The Forum is moving to Xenforo software and all the usual functions will be...

In the coming days forum access via the mobile app will be discontinued and we wanted to make you aware of some other options so that your surfing won't be interrupted. Our forums software has a mobile view with this same functionality. Use a browser to access the forum instead of the app...

On Monday 9/28 our data center will be doing some updates and maintenance. They have notified us that our servers may be offline for some period*of time and that the maintenance*window is 4PM - 11PM EDT. We have little control over this and there*may be no noticeable*service interruption but I...

This week you will see a small change in the address bar of your browser as we move to an all SSL platform. (more reading here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS) For a long while now the forum login pages (where password info is passed) have been secure (httpS) but as noted by many, the rest...

Member inbox sixes have been increased a bit from 50 PMs to 200 As ever - supporting members have unlimited storage. :flowers:

Recently the image hosting service Photobucket changed their terms of use for account holders and no longer allow embedded images to be displayed on forums. As a result the forum had many threads lose their photo documentation. Moving forward we will disallow links to Photobucket and ask...

I wanted to let you know that in the next day or so you may see a small change to the site login screen. This is being done as we add an extra layer of security to usernames and passwords. The login pages, registration page and pages where you might update your account login info will be behind...

Over the next couple of days we are going to be making some changes to the site to improve security and stability and you may see some slow page loads as systems update. App users in particular may have trouble connecting until service providers and app installations update. There are some...

Hi Folks - We are going to be doing some maintenance on our chat server Tuesday October 6th and expect Chat (only) to be offline for about an hour beginning about 10 PM Eastern time. Thanks for understanding. :flowers:

Hi Folks - we are going to be doing some server maintenance on Wednesday July 8th and you may see a brief site outage late in the evening. We expect this to commence about 10 PM (eastern time) and don't expect this interruption to be more than about 30 minutes. Thanks for understanding. :flowers:

I wanted to let you know that we are moving to a new server this Monday evening, June 8th, 2015 (eastern time). The site is likely to be offline for about an hour during this time but we will try to keep the disruption to a minimum. Thanks for understanding. :flowers:

Ipad and Iphone users have reported login troubles and I wanted to give you a heads up about this... We had a server glitch that caused this. It has been fixed now. You should be able to login now If you can't login with your old info (because you tried to reset it), please reset your password...

I wanted to let you know that we had a server glitch today that caused some folks to receive an wrong password notice when they tried to login. It should be resolved now. It was entirely a goof on our part and you should be able to login now. I apologize for any inconvenience. If you are using...

We are going to be doing a some server work later today and the board may be unavailable for 10 or 15 minutes. The ETA on this is 7:30 - 8:30 Eastern time. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience.

In response to many issues with our current java based chat platform we are going to be changing to a new chat platform shortly - look for these changes in the next day or so and bear with us as we get it configured. :flowers:

There have been several reports that members are having trouble accessing the AA chat rooms. This recent issue has to do with Java (the software the drives the chat application) heightening their security measures in order to better protect users against malicious attacks on the internet...

We are going to be doing a little more maintenance on our servers tonight and the site will be offline for a little while late in the evening EST. When you login afterwards please remember to click the remember me button. I apologize for any inconvenience but we want to keep the site running...

Folks we have a server upgrade planned and anticipate that the forum will be offline for about a little while late in the evening EST. Once we're back online you should see increased page load speed. Thanks in advance for your patience. :flowers:

Some of you may be seeing a slidedown notice for tapatalk (a mobile app). In the next week or so we are going to be changing our app. Please ignore the tapatalk notice for now but in a few days you should see a prompt to install our new app which is based on the tapatalk platform. We're...

We have some unanticipated server maintenance to do late this evening or very early in the morning (depending on your location) and the site may be offline for about 30 minutes - please excuse the last minute notice but it's unavoidable. :flowers:

Once upon a time there was a :confused: :fish1:named Truffle. Truffle was easily scared and would often :hide: or :dance: to distract himself from scary things like the :devil: or the neighbors evil cat. Truffle had good reason to be scared because once, his true :love: had been kidnapped and...

Welcome to the Watering Hole - the way off topic forum. Posts in this area do not need to be related to aquarium keeping but must follow other forum rules. Please do not post political discussions, religious topics or adult content and above all BE NICE! Have fun but not an the expense of...

Good news: We are going to be doing some server upgrades in the next day (more ram, etc) so the Forum will be faster and more stable. Bad news: The forum will be offline starting June 7, 2012 beginning at about 12:30 am CDT (5:30 GMT/Zulu -5). This maintenance window is scheduled for 2...