Hi Shane and Parosphr,
concerning the activity of this forum: someone has said, the aquaristic hobbyist has to be patient.
The fish swim, you try too keep them well, once or twice a year they breed if you are lucky and got good healthy fish…. there doesn’t happen so much everyday, so that, when the beginners questions are answered, there is not so much left to talk everyday.
But I think, thats the same in every Forum. In former times, when I began with Aquaristic, I often visited http://www.aquariumforum.de. Thats a rather busy Forum (also not all the time) but the more than our forum here is just quantity not quality. Indeed the majority of posts are beginner questions.
And facebook – I am in one group, the best was that I got the tipp that it is possible to send fish overnight with Go! express (just Germany and Austria) via “shipping and more” . For me the facebook groups are no real concurrence for this forum.