Bad hobby terms.

[scardall]

Hey guys, here's another winner from a FB Post . "Best and easiest chiller and GO!!!!" No other data given.

Really??

 

[AcroNem]

Hey guys, here's another winner from a FB Post . "Best and easiest chiller and GO!!!!" No other data given.

Really??

Hmm, a little lost with that one.

 

[Rick.45cal]

Hey guys, here's another winner from a FB Post . "Best and easiest chiller and GO!!!!" No other data given.

Really??

(Can't help myself sometimes)

 

[AcroNem]

Might be the best, but you may be disqualified as it doesn't seem very easy.

 

[Rick.45cal]

Might be the best, but you may be disqualified as it doesn't seem very easy.

It was easy for me

 

[elfda]

See, as I stated I think we need more scientific names. So that the rest of us actually know what the heck someone is talking about. Too generalized wording is just making things worse, as I and another have already mentioned. If they say "this LPS I have" actually makes no sense, or even "this (insert common name here)" still doesn't work. So working at learning correct scientific names or at least the Genera of what you're talking about makes things a lot easier in the long run.

Same troubles in the tarantula hobby! Saying you have/want a birdeater is useless. There are so many that are called bird eaters -- heck, the German name for tarantula literally translates to bird spider!

Or "red rump"; you could be asking for a nice Brachypelma, and get a bugnuts crazy Thrixopelma! [emoji23]

More latin!
I even sneak them in, at work.
The hermit crabs they send me? Labeled as "small hermit crabs". That's all the label says.
My PO listed them as "dardanus sp." so I added an extra line with the label maker, so my customers could make informed decisions.

(Labeling the green leather corals with sarcophyton sp seemed overkill, but I did it anyway.)

 

[elfda]

I have taken the oath! No more foot but pedal disk! Like a bicycle to move from one location to another. Maybe bicycle disk (kidding)? Thanks for the correct term.

I use the most ridiculous and incorrect term of all; butt.
Mostly when I'm annoyed (just sit yer butt down and stop wandering the tank)!

I know it's foot/pedal disc (i.e. foot disc), but... butts are funny

 

[LbulletM]

I have a professor that wrote an extremely comprehensive book on probability and statistics. Out of 25 references, only 6 were not Wikipedia. The scientific, math, and engineering based Wikipedia pages are getting to be quite serious references. Have you ever tried to look up a math term on Wikipedia? It is beyond intense. More in depth than doctorate level math courses.

Jokes, Skydvr. Jokes.

 

[Nick stokes]

Do you have a Dory fish

 

[NanaReefer]

See, as I stated I think we need more scientific names. So that the rest of us actually know what the heck someone is talking about. Too generalized wording is just making things worse, as I and another have already mentioned. If they say "this LPS I have" actually makes no sense, or even "this (insert common name here)" still doesn't work. So working at learning correct scientific names or at least the Genera of what you're talking about makes things a lot easier in the long run.

You're statement is a matter of personal preference.
IMO there's absolutely nothing wrong with generalizing Hammer Coral aka Euphyllia Ancora. [emoji16]

 

[Larry L]

Not really a bad hobby term but more of a forum pet peeve: Posts that start out with "Title says it all", followed by several more paragraphs of explanatory stuff.

 

[AcroNem]

You're statement is a matter of personal preference.
IMO there's absolutely nothing wrong with generalizing Hammer Coral aka Euphyllia Ancora. [emoji16]

I agree, with some. like saying "hammer coral/E. ancora or branch hammer coral/ E. paraancora" that's totally fine, it makes sense and isn't a fluffy gimmick name. Those aren't the one's we're talking about, it's the others that aren't just generalizations, a lot of them tell us absolutely nothing about the species they're talking about. And as has been stated, they could be several species, or even from a different genus altogether. Scientific names are important

 

[AcroNem]

Do you have a Dory fish

Bleh. That's a bad one. "No, my reef does not have all the main characters of finding Nemo/Dory in it"

 

[saltyhog]

I also disagree with doing away with the terms LPS and SPS. They aren't intended to be taxonomy tools. They're hobby tools that I think have some use to describe some general traits and care consideration.

That said, it makes me chuckle to see the difficult time vendors have deciding where to put cyphastrea.

 

[Centerline]

"Old school"

Though not restrained to any one thing, place or time, But in the hobby refers to "lack of expensive, high tech equipment".

Drives me cuckoo!

DANG RIGHT!

 

[Centerline]

"RAINBOW " Since when have you see an actual rainbow with 2 noticeable colors and a hint of a 3rd color . ..Reefing has destroyed rainbows haha.. 3 colors does not warrant calling things rainbow ..ok I'm done

Dang right!

This would be a rainbow!

 

[AcroNem]

We never said hobbyists would ever decide to go away from using SPS, LPS, and Softy. We're just saying they aren't exactly accurate and, I do need to argue that they tell us nothing in regard to their care needs.

 

[Rick.45cal]

Euphyllias 25 years ago were some of the most confused taxonomically. Their skeletons all share such similar traits most are indistinguishable from other species based solely on skeletal structure. Only by studying the physiology of the soft tissue has their taxonomic places changed.

If we are going to jump on LPS, SPS, softies, let's just go ahead and get rid of "mixed reef" too, because everyone here has a mixed reef, unless you have a singular species, it's pretty much mixed.

 

[Nick stokes]

Euphyllias 25 years ago were some of the most confused taxonomically. Their skeletons all share such similar traits most are indistinguishable from other species based solely on skeletal structure. Only by studying the physiology of the soft tissue has their taxonomic places changed.

If we are going to jump on LPS, SPS, softies, let's just go ahead and get rid of "mixed reef" too, because everyone here has a mixed reef, unless you have a singular species, it's pretty much mixed.

And the subspecies of the species [emoji23][emoji23]

 

[scardall]

Can I have Nemo in my Tank?

Hey Mom, Nemo!