Annoying terms

[Frop]

Or when someone says "QT tank". Which is "Quarantine tank tank".

Huh, never thought about that one

 

[cmcoker]

Anyone else frustrated by the lack of explanation of commonly used terms in the hobby? I've always been annoyed when people tell me it needs low/moderate/high light/flow as they mean different things to everyone. I could put a coral in what I think is a high light area and it browns out whilst someone else would bleach it.
I know there are scientific definitions of flow but not seen any fot light and the average hobbyist doesn't know what they are.

This is the best I've found for light recommendations.. It's older so doesn't really talk about leds but at least give something more than high or low. Need to view in web browser so you can hover over the key.
http://successfulreefkeeping.com/learn/about-corals/what-your-coral-needs/

 

[Humblefish]

In the fish disease forum, we get so busy sometimes that we overuse acronyms in order to quickly move on to helping the next person with a sick fish. Since time is of the essence. So, there is a flip side to doing it.

 

[Frop]

This is the best I've found for light recommendations.. It's older so doesn't really talk about leds but at least give something more than high or low. Need to view in web browser so you can hover over the key.
http://successfulreefkeeping.com/learn/about-corals/what-your-coral-needs/

This is really helpful!

I thought the flower pot corals didn't like as much light.

 

[cmcoker]

This is really helpful!

I thought the flower pot corals didn't like as much light.

Yeah I have not kept those so can't say.. but it also lists them as "difficult" which i don't think they are all considered difficult now.. But I may be wrong

Like I said it's older so some info may need updated...

 

[Frop]

Yeah I have not kept those so can't say.. but it also lists them as "difficult" which i don't think they are all considered difficult now.. But I may be wrong

After I got mine I started watching a bunch of YouTube videos on it. All those videos made me think it was going to be dead in a month. Saying people use to believe they were impossible. On one video the guy had his last a year. So I have no idea. Mine has been alive since I got it probably 4-5 months ago. I don't really feed it other than maybe spraying a mist of mysis at them lol I saw iodine dosing is good for them but I don't. Just happy it's alive. I don't want to mess it up.

 

[SandJ]

What I find annoying:
Someone posts an ad-Live Rock for sale
:::insert picture of green, previously wet but now very dry rock spread out across someone's deiveway:::

I know what they mean lol I guess "once alive rock that is now dead" does not sound as good

 

[MaccaPopEye]

This is really helpful!

I thought the flower pot corals didn't like as much light.

Well they are found in a range of lighting conditions and depths. But there is a few reefs where I live (northern Australia) that get exposed at low tide (you can just walk out and have a look at everything). There is a lot of gonis down there (green, red and purple ones) purple ones are usually in slightly deeper water and only get exposed at the super low tides, but the majority of the green and red ones are up so high that at low tide they are either completely out of the water or only in a couple of cm of water and in full blasting sunlight (and 30-35 degree C heat). So even when the tide is in I would say they are copping a pretty good blasting of light most days.

Doesn't mean the like it though, just means they can tolerate it there are also some there that are under a bridge and would not see much light at all yet they are also thriving so take your pick haha

 

[Lionfish Lair]

I'm a nurse, so I wouldn't survive without acronyms. My husband uses the latin terms for everything. Crikey! Sometimes I would get ticked and sneer "could you please just talk like a normal person?". LOL!

A lot of these things don't have hard and fast rules, so one only make general recommendations. A lot of these recommendations of low/medium/high are measurements used years ago when that's all the info we had. PAR? If you were hard core, you had halides and there wasn't a whole lot of choices there. Otherwise, you had like fluorescents.
Every hobby/job/topic has it's own "language", you just sort of learn it as you go along.

 

[mort]

Well, you could have a reefbuilding LPS coral, so I don't think those terms exactly conform. But SPS and LPS are perfectly useful terms, even if not meaningful to taxonomists, imo.

My point was they don't really classify them due to polyp size.