Velvet and AEFW, you should just break it down.
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I thought so as well.. It took awhile to take the picture with all the moving around the fish did... had to turn up my whites to 100% as well..
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Velvet and AEFW, you should just break it down.
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Good points!Well I'm sure as long as it's kept far away from the kryponite coral it would be okay
Being new to the hobby I can say it can really be difficult to search for things when you may not have a clue what exactly it is your trying to search for. I can definitely agree with the "what is this?" with a blurry pic or reefers asking what's wrong without posting there parameters for those to help. There is a wealth of information on this forum and excellent dedicated members who want to help in any way they can. But they can't lift a finger without knowing what is going on.
Hahaha, lolShut up noob, we're on a roll... LOL
I think this is a spell check issue. When I typed zoas earlier it corrected me and changed it to zoos. Spellcheck is a pain in the butt!!!Mine is probably going to hit close to home for some up here... I hate seeing Zoanthids called "zoos", zoa is the correct abbreviation ZOAnthid. A zoo is a place that houses exotic animals, you cannot keep a zoo in an aquarium, the animals would drown
As a newbie, it's easier to start a new post and ask questions than to search an entire site, especially if said site has a mobile site (which is what I use here) and a browser site (which some of you use here but I do not because I have a tablet, not a laptop). It could take us weeks to search through old posts that may or may not answer the exact question we have.I agree - mix of lazy and clueless. When you are new; 1) it can be difficult to determine the correct query and 2) you worry if the previous information is no longer relevant (e.g. due to technology updates, etc.)
Pfft, I ain't never seen no one use no double negatives...double negatives.
Here are 2 R2R threads on the subject.Zoas are poisonous? I did not know that
It is like using initials rather than the term which we do quite often. Consider BBT. What in the world does that mean? It means bare bottom tank to most here at R2R. The correct way is to say BBT (bare bottom tank) and then once the definition is made you can use BBT or bbt in your comments, thread etc. We ASSume that everyone knows the lingo. Same with corals. If we gave the common name with the scientific name in parenthesis we have a solid ID and can then continue to use the common name. Solution simple is we follow it. I have another pet peeve then is those that do not explain acronyms be they corals or "Reef Tank" slang.I have an easier time of knowing which coral you are talking about if you say acropora or zoanthid, but people and websites want to name every color variation something else so we get 1000 different names. I know what people are saying when they refer to a pulsing xenia or a Kenya tree, those are soft corals, I like them. I understand the difference between a flame angel and a coral beauty angel, but I will have a terrible time remembering the difference between a Centropyge Loricula and a Centropyge Bispinosa, especially when you throw in spell check on any phone, tablet, laptop and desktop. So telling people they should learn the scientific names of everything just doesn't make it easier for everyone. Neither do these weird names for corals. But as a hobby No one is going to figure out the "best" way for everyone
Alkalinity, in place of carbonate hardness, or dKH.
Alkalinity refers to the pH of any substance north of 7.0. Carbonate hardness refers to the amount of carbonate disolved in solution. The two terms are not interchangeable, yet they are within our hobby with great regularity.
This one has bugged me for years (decades, actually).
How, exactly, do you look up care requirements for 'superman' coral, anyway?
Ok... some pet peeves
several people talk about inverts and corals (e.g. this treatment is safe for corals but not invertebrates).... ERRRRR... Corals are invertebrates!!!
One LFS owner once told me that Nems are not corals, they are invertebrates... Both Corals and Nems are in the phylum Cnidaria... both have nematocysts (stinging cells)
Also, Softies vs. LPS vs. SPS.... big ERRRRRR. Imagine ornithologists classifying birds as either flightless, flapping or gliding.
Another thing that really annoys me, and one that i think our community needs to get better at, is the adoption of fluffy coral names.... you know the ones (i've purchased many; pink caddy, blue voodoo, blue eyed blond something, etc etc etc). Can we please start using proper names (i know this is hard, but doable) ... i think we would be doing SCIENCE a big favour if we start taking taxonomy of our corals seriously... I am sure that we observe and keep records on our tanks more than any natural reef has been studied. we have collected years of precious data on the different conditions that corals (and algae thrive in, but this information is not immediately useful because we don't know the proper taxonomy of our tank inhabitants. Not good!
I always cringed at that one. It would be easier if there were 2-3 oz bottles of pure ammonia available for a couple of bucks at aquarium shops. I can get a bottle of pure ammonia at the dollar store, but I have no other use for it after establishing the nitrogen cycle.... cycling with live fish or dead shrimp....
I admit to building a 2x4 stand for a ten gallon aquarium. I have no idea how that thing didn't tip over.... using 2x4s for stands!!!!!!
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.Didn't your teacher ever tell you not to cite Wikipedia?
I still haven't been able to get beyond this either. Or people that think corals don't need to be fed, that light is enough. Try keeping them in a pristine tank with no fish to feed, see how quickly they fade away.The most frustrating thing to me in this hobby is seeing how many people systematically starve their fish and corals just because they don't want their tank to get "dirty". Let be honest, that isn't an acceptable practice, it's something that needs to change in this hobby. If we were raising any other animals, it would be criminal!
"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
As a beginner, it's more difficult to find these names out. I have coral that I've not found the exact match for online or in my reef books. I call it what it seems to be and assume they are just color variants, not a completely different species. I'm taking a pledge here and now: I'm going to try to use only the scientific names from now on.I think what a lot of us are saying is we should go back to the good old days when a genus and color was enough, and a morph was a just a cool morph. Before there were so many vendors just trying to capitalize on it by giving them stupid names making people ignore what they really are. I'd love to just see a scientific name and a color. It would even still be worth more but it's idiotic to call them these goofy names.
to each is own. I'm not trying to change your mind. I don't mess with any acrylic unless it's for sumps, frag racks, or reactors etc. I prefer polycarbonate. I have used "plexiglass" and it warps and discolors over time. Polycarbonate in MY experience dose not. But I don't want to argue, you may be right I have limited experiance with it all. Calling hook and loop fastener Velcro is fine because it's not used in things that hold hundreds of gallons of water. But calling a plastic by a brand name could cause some one allot of headache, if they attempt a diy project using the wrong type.You have that backwards. Plexiglas is great for tanks. polycarbonate......not so much.