Fishy Acronyms

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*Parameter

[FullMoon]

Not sure if this has been covered already. Not an acronym, but often confused in the hobby...

Perameter = measure of water conditions
Perimeter = measurement of boundaries of an area or object

Anubias = med to low light aquatic plant
Anubis = a god of death and embalming

Amused by these confusions, but can be annoying to some.

TIA = Thanks In Advance (took me a whe to figure out this wasn't a woman that really got around in the hobby or somebody's aunt)

[armthehomeless]

Re: Fishy Acronyms

Oebt?

Orange eyed blue tiger (shrimp)

[Marina Hyde]

Oebt?

[armthehomeless]

It 'bumps' the thread to the top of the most recent list
Sometimes peoploe also do 'TTT' for to the top.

[Kelli]

What does it mean when people write Bump?

[Totenkampf]

acronyms come in handy sometimes among experianced hobbyists but i think that they are daunting to new readers. i try to spell the word out the first time that i use it in a post and then the acronym thereafter, there are far too many words with the same acronym...is my ET post talking about aliens or epipedobates trivittatus or that guy in the cheech and chong movie? lol

[Zebvance]

A few Fish acronyms

RBP- Red Belly Piranha
BGK- Black Goast Knife
JD-Jack Dempsey
EBJD- Electric Blue Jack Dempsey

[Mzungu]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_measurement :

Standard length (SL) refers to the length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the posterior end of the last vertebra or to the posterior end of the midlateral portion of the hypural plate. Simply put, this measurement excludes the length of the caudal fin.[1]

Total length (TL) refers to the length from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin, usually measured with the lobes compressed along the midline. It is a straight-line measure, not measured over the curve of the body.[2]

Standard length measurements are used with Teleostei (most bony fish), while total length measurements are used with Myxini (hagfish), Petromyzontiformes (lampreys), and (usually) Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays), as well as some other fishes. [2]

In addition, fishery biologists often use a third measure, fork length (FL), in fishes with forked tails. This measure is the length from the tip of the snout to the end of the middle caudal fin rays and is used in fishes in which it is difficult to tell where the vertebral column ends.[3]
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[Mzungu]

I believe "SL" stands for Standard Length. Both are measured differently, I think it has to do with from where on the tail the measurement is taken.

[Kotter-Wane]

I've seen TL for "Total Length", but I've also seen SL used in regards to fish length - what's SL mean?

[Complexity]

OH! Thank you. That makes sense.

[ddaquaria]

What does "RR" stand for when people use it to refer to their tanks? Regular Rectangle?

Reef Ready
It's doesn't need an external overflow box since an internal one is built into the tank.

[Complexity]

There's one missing, and I don't know what it stands for.

What does "RR" stand for when people use it to refer to their tanks? Regular Rectangle?

[Mzungu]

so.... what is Ichthyophthirius multifilis?

Due to the persistent problem of ich, I went ahead and made a sticky in the Diseases and Disasters forum citing a few good threads we've had over the years here on HFB about ich.

http://houstonfishbox.com/vforums/showthread.php?t=31398

Hope it helps! :)