mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Before i answer everyone's posts i want to put this whole BFC thing to rest.
The original concept for the BFC came to me in the spring of 2001 when i was still married, as soon as i realised it's importance myself and a few other guys got to work on the equation. Simply defining the parameters by which we could measure the equation's success presented yet another set of hurdles to overcome but by the summer of 2012 we'd made strong progress, only Hawking (Hawky) and i remained as others fell by the wayside. Just prior to me making the breakthrough that led to the BFC, Hawky and i fell out over his electric chair charger causing the Radiums to dim and i cut him loose and went it alone.
This will go over most peoples heads as it's a lot like reef string theory but here goes anyway........
Display volume in gallons divided by 10 - we worked out that 10 is the easiest number to divide our tank volume by in our heads around 2005 from memory.
V/10 = W
One then counts one's fish and here's where the equation had us stumped all these years. If this number were left a fixed constant along with W remaining constant, the Happiness level would never rise.
F/W = H
This is why the stupid Canadian fish inch per gallon equation is flawed at it's very core - it completely fails to allow for the happiness level and instead gets bogged down in ridiculous irrelevant common sense stocking level readings that actually prevent the reefer from buying new fish - a joke right......
The letters are all there but the equation doesn't work...... until you do this:
F/W x H = BFC
Fish number divided by 10% of SPS tank volume multiplied by H equals the BFC. Happiness sits at 1.0 when you're content with recent fish purchases but over time the H level drops and this has a direct impact on the BFC. Your BFC might be 1.0 today but no new fish for a while and the H drops to 0.9.... 1.0 x 0.9 = BFC of 0.9 and with display volume fixed there's only one way to lift your BFC to a level widely accepted as required. You can even show your partner people posting their BFC now to justify the new fish you've been wanting and there's not a thing they can do to stop you because it's obviously an important parameter otherwise people wouldn't be quoting it all the time.......... :smokin:
The BFC is a thing of mathematical beauty and in the wrong hands could drop your BFC to dangerously low levels. Just imagine if one were to swap the F for an S where the S stands for your partners new shoe happiness level.......... it would be devastating to your SPS play money allowance level....... :reading:
We can all go back to the days of pagan Canadian fish per inch ideology and be sad or we can go with real science - the BFC :thumbsup:
Hang in there Biggles, remember that to primitives, science seems like magic:lol:
I mean those poor cans of beer being drank whilst you were working on a long term fishy mathematical model for the SPS forum... 
