Idea for Polling fish mortality rates

[Chin_Lee]

Originally Posted by 'Ol Nobodaddy

Yeah but a new to the hobby vs an old hand, a reef vs a fish only. Lots of live rock vs not so much, regular water changes etc... to many variables for it to be that accurate.

i agree but what it can provide is for people to realize how long these fishes actually survive in our tanks. There is nothing in this world that can ever calculate all the variables and the poll is really not for accuracy.
The way I see its, the general idea behind it is lets say I want to buy a mandarin goby and I see that only a handful of people out of 100 have managed to keep it alive for longer than 1 year, I might have second thoughts about buying one.
On the other hand, I want to buy a yellow tang and 40 of 100 people have managed to keep them alive for 3-5 years, thats a pretty good indication that this fish is a good keeper.

Yes the list of fish could get substantial but once all the "common" ones are in, its the only ones most people will be interested in. I would not expect to see species like green sea turtle, hammerhead shark, or pineapple fish.

In some way, its my way to contribute to the conservation of some of the harder to keep fish.

[Delphinus]

No whale sharks ??

[Pan]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

No whale sharks ??

Didn't an aquarium in the States just lose their second one?

[Delphinus]

Yes - the Georgia Aquarium - a few months ago. But I wasn't trying to inject a sober sad note into this thread, in fact the opposite - was just intended as a light hearted comment.

[Chaloupa]

Fantastic idea! I would have loved to read something like this when I was starting out......I'm interested!

[Phanman]

Great idea Chin, i would love to know how long ppl have kept a species of fish.

[digital-audiophile]

Great idea!

Maybe hard to do as a forum poll, but maybe more in an excel data sheet?

[Pan]

Originally Posted by Chin_Lee

i agree but what it can provide is for people to realize how long these fishes actually survive in our tanks. There is nothing in this world that can ever calculate all the variables and the poll is really not for accuracy.
The way I see its, the general idea behind it is lets say I want to buy a mandarin goby and I see that only a handful of people out of 100 have managed to keep it alive for longer than 1 year, I might have second thoughts about buying one.
On the other hand, I want to buy a yellow tang and 40 of 100 people have managed to keep them alive for 3-5 years, thats a pretty good indication that this fish is a good keeper.

Yes the list of fish could get substantial but once all the "common" ones are in, its the only ones most people will be interested in. I would not expect to see species like green sea turtle, hammerhead shark, or pineapple fish.

In some way, its my way to contribute to the conservation of some of the harder to keep fish.

Okay that makes sense, I think it would be a good idea., "generally" speaking (despite what william blake has to say) its a good idea. People could use it as a quick reference guide, although other such things exist elsewhere. If it looks like not too many people have had succees with a particular fish or coral they may want to read up on it more (should do that anyway IMO) and maybe decide to wait until there skills have increased. I think canreef should have fish/coral basic guid anyways. It be fun to build such a thing.

[skylord]

I think this is an exceptional idea. It could be you have one list with all Tangs and you could tick a radio box behind the Yellow Tang at 3 yrs and a Purple Tang at 2 yrs and a Powder Blue at 3-6 months and only have one submission for all tangs.

Scott

[niloc16]

great idea chin. of course there can be tons of variables but the idea is awesome. i would totally be in for that.