Now and again you really need something and can't find it.
Use the RC search function.
Sometimes search clogs up---especially during periods of high use. You could wait until midnight when users are fewer---
Or open a tab and go to the internet. A lot of people ask questions---I try to answer---and when I'm not absolutely sure, yes, I go to the internet.
Say you've think your fish could have ich---and you don't know what ich looks like. Type in: species marine ich, ie "clownfish marine ich." You'll get pix. That word marine is a good idea, so you don't get freshwater advice by mistake. You're still not sure it's ich. Re-try, with 'marine fish disease.' Change search engines, vary the order of your search terms---that can turn up new info.
You want to know what your salinity ought to be: type "salinity marine tank". OR better yet, read the very explicit stickies at the top of this forum---and, unlike other threads, read the FRONT of an info-post FIRST.
You want to know what a sea robin looks like because somebody mentioned them. OR a flying gurnard. Look it up. You'll get pix---AND species info, where they live in the wild, what they eat, etc.
Want to know what a eunicid worm looks like? Ask the internet.
The internet is absolutely rife with marine hobby info---and it can often find an RC thread faster than RC search can find it. If I've forgotten what elements Poly Filter will remove from water, and I'm answering a question, you bet I open a tab, type, "What elements Poly Filter removes" [use as few words as possible, hitting the ones that are key to what you need.]
RC search and the stickies in each forum are your best tools, especially if you realize you should read the FRONT END of the information posts first; go to the Disease forum for diagnosis and treatment; go to Lighting if you want to know about LEDs; Chemistry if you feel you're up against a water chemistry problem; there are also specific forums for clams, invertebrates, reef fishes, various types of corals, zoas, seahorses, you name it.Yes, there is also a sale/trade forum, but you can't use that one until you've been a member here for 90 days and until you've contributed 50 meaningful posts to RC forums---'gee, pretty' and 'x2" do not count as posts, understand. If you haven't learned enough in 90 days to help people who are newer than you with real helpful info---a fast way way to accumulate those 50 posts---hey, go read those stickies, hey?
Use the RC search function.
Sometimes search clogs up---especially during periods of high use. You could wait until midnight when users are fewer---
Or open a tab and go to the internet. A lot of people ask questions---I try to answer---and when I'm not absolutely sure, yes, I go to the internet.
Say you've think your fish could have ich---and you don't know what ich looks like. Type in: species marine ich, ie "clownfish marine ich." You'll get pix. That word marine is a good idea, so you don't get freshwater advice by mistake. You're still not sure it's ich. Re-try, with 'marine fish disease.' Change search engines, vary the order of your search terms---that can turn up new info.
You want to know what your salinity ought to be: type "salinity marine tank". OR better yet, read the very explicit stickies at the top of this forum---and, unlike other threads, read the FRONT of an info-post FIRST.
You want to know what a sea robin looks like because somebody mentioned them. OR a flying gurnard. Look it up. You'll get pix---AND species info, where they live in the wild, what they eat, etc.
Want to know what a eunicid worm looks like? Ask the internet.
The internet is absolutely rife with marine hobby info---and it can often find an RC thread faster than RC search can find it. If I've forgotten what elements Poly Filter will remove from water, and I'm answering a question, you bet I open a tab, type, "What elements Poly Filter removes" [use as few words as possible, hitting the ones that are key to what you need.]
RC search and the stickies in each forum are your best tools, especially if you realize you should read the FRONT END of the information posts first; go to the Disease forum for diagnosis and treatment; go to Lighting if you want to know about LEDs; Chemistry if you feel you're up against a water chemistry problem; there are also specific forums for clams, invertebrates, reef fishes, various types of corals, zoas, seahorses, you name it.Yes, there is also a sale/trade forum, but you can't use that one until you've been a member here for 90 days and until you've contributed 50 meaningful posts to RC forums---'gee, pretty' and 'x2" do not count as posts, understand. If you haven't learned enough in 90 days to help people who are newer than you with real helpful info---a fast way way to accumulate those 50 posts---hey, go read those stickies, hey?
