BurlyWizard
Community Member
I would like to request a tank-section forum be created for FOWLR / Aggressive tanks.
I'm aware this is a "reef" forum. It's right in the name. But another very popular "Reef" forum, which is now defunct had a sizeable and active Fish Only With Live Rock (FOWLR) and Aggressive tank section. I know R2R has an Aggressive Fish discussion forum, but a large portion of those are asking questions related to "Is XYZ fish reef safe?" and not related to those fish in a non-reef tank.
My arguments are as follows:
Note: I understand technically a FOWLR can fall under the "Large" and "Monster" gallon requirements, but in general it's a bit confusing what goes where. For example, a 190 gallon cube could go in Member Tanks, Cube Aquariums, or Large Aquariums. Also it's a bit strange to have Nano, and Large, but not a section for 55g, 75g, 90g, 120g, 150g which are all very common sizes. However, these are less concerning because it's more organization than a lack of a home for content, as FOWLR tanks experience today.
I'm aware this is a "reef" forum. It's right in the name. But another very popular "Reef" forum, which is now defunct had a sizeable and active Fish Only With Live Rock (FOWLR) and Aggressive tank section. I know R2R has an Aggressive Fish discussion forum, but a large portion of those are asking questions related to "Is XYZ fish reef safe?" and not related to those fish in a non-reef tank.
My arguments are as follows:
- We have tank sections for Nano, Cube, and All In One (AIO) separately despite massive overlap there, and this would have almost 0 overlap to the rest of the site.
- "The other forum" had over 675 pages of FOWLR content on their forum. It was very active.
- There is literally nowhere else on the internet to add all of this content that once had a home (and if there is, please tell me because I have a 300g build planned).
- There are huge amounts of triggers, puffers, angels, etc. that get almost no support or coverage in a reef only forum
- Even if it isn't as active as "General Reef Discussion", it would at least add some new users (see: "Supporters") to the site
Note: I understand technically a FOWLR can fall under the "Large" and "Monster" gallon requirements, but in general it's a bit confusing what goes where. For example, a 190 gallon cube could go in Member Tanks, Cube Aquariums, or Large Aquariums. Also it's a bit strange to have Nano, and Large, but not a section for 55g, 75g, 90g, 120g, 150g which are all very common sizes. However, these are less concerning because it's more organization than a lack of a home for content, as FOWLR tanks experience today.
