Loaches Online Forum

Martin Thoene wrote:Yes, I realize that Mike. What I want to do is just create a fully visually functional place where we can do the work, but other people can see what's going on. What we don't need (IMO) is the additional clutter of other's opinions being added to the thread during the initial build stage.

By locking it, we can avoid that.

You still don't need locking. phpBB allows to create a subforum for mods only (optionally visible or not to others), or to make a usergroup of people who can see a subforum.

The main problem is that if you continue adding stickies for new species, very soon no other threads will be visible.

hmmmmmmmmmm......

*thinking hard*

So nobody likes the wiki, because anyone can edit it, and because it doesn't *look* super-nice. If it changes anyones mind, most wikis can be locked to a certain user set, and also are highly customizeable. A visually-appealing template could very easily be set up.

Sounds like people really don't want to go this route though.

If you are going to use the forum for the species index discussions, I would definitely recommend a new sub-forum. Having stickies in here is going to get nuts.

As a phpBB admin, I can vouch for MikeV's comments. It is very easy to set up subforums, or change permissions so that only mods can see or post in a particular forum or etc.

i have just a bit of apicky thing i noticed. on the tank sizes, i saw it's in gallons, but is this US or normal gallons? i'm not sure which is normal to quote. sorry to be dim, but i may not be the only person.

Gallons in the US are different from gallons in the UK?

Yes, they are. Helen is right, we do need to clarify which we are going to use. I think 1 US gallon is the equivalent of approximately 0.83 Imperial gallons.

Emma

Emma Turner wrote:Yes, they are. Helen is right, we do need to clarify which we are going to use. I think 1 US gallon is the equivalent of approximately 0.83 Imperial gallons.

Emma

It should not be impossible to specify both, but would not the europeans prefer measuring in litres?

A standard way of presenting volume on aquatic products, in aquatic books and on many websites etc etc is usually both in US gallons and in litres, so I presume this is what we'll do.

However, a lot of us Brits are still stuck in our old 'Imperial ways' with feet and inches and so on!

I find it interesting that you use feet and inches as we do in the states, but use a different gallon measurement.
They tried to get the metric system accepted when I was a kid but it didn't entirely work. I think trying to convert is a mistake. You need to think in terms of metric measurements instead. Now soft drinks are sold in liters and engine displacements are listed in liters instead of cubic inches, but we still use our gallons and miles and yards and inches.

why not use all three

liters, gallons and gallons imperial style

1 gallon US = 3.785411784 litres
1 gallon Canada = 4.54609 litres
1 gallon UK = 4.546092 litres

How come the UK has a bigger gallon in litres? Well.....by a teeny weeny bit Got these figures from the same website.

Martin.

The biggest 10 gallon hat is in the UK...well i never!

Nope....that's a 45.46092 litre hat thar boyee!



Martin.

so we have UK, US and Canada gallons. who else is going to claim yet another size of gallon? this is confusing!

the rest of you over there may still have miles and inches, but you still drive on the wrong side of the road, dont you?

i thought the clown loach sticky was very good - it really shows why so many people really shouldnt be buying these wonderfull fish. i hope it puts off at least a few prospective buyers who cant provide proper tanks.

helen nightingale wrote: i thought the clown loach sticky was very good - it really shows why so many people really shouldnt be buying these wonderfull fish. i hope it puts off at least a few prospective buyers who cant provide proper tanks.

However they would need to know a fair bit about them already to know the scientific name for them

adampetherick wrote: However they would need to know a fair bit about them already to know the scientific name for them

These are 'works in progress.' The species index will be presented with both a common and latin name, not too dissimilar to what we have now. The information for each species, however, will be much more in-depth and up-to-date.

Emma