Would you use a coral reference database?

jtbadco · #1 04-09-2012, 02:58 PM

'You mean like this...

http://sdmas.com/corals/species.php'

something a little less scientific and more hobby oriented would be better

Pictures of the fish or corals, preferred tank parameters (flow, lighting, etc)

Feeding or dosing requirements, etc

Most times when I am looking up fish or corals that I am unfamiliar with I end up at the LiveAquaria website...so something along those lines but not sales based would be very cool.

fabbroc · #2 04-09-2012, 05:32 PM

Hmm I didn't know about the live aquaria database. Would this this still be used if it was hobbyist oriented? It would be written by the community

fencer · #3 04-09-2012, 07:08 PM

That is a good reference Muck. The problem I find is vendors tend to name the corals instead of giving a scientific name(or the wholesalers don mark them) and furthermore everybody uses different lighting

tt101 · #4 04-09-2012, 07:28 PM

i think this would be an amazing idea, sure there are hundreds of crappy websites online but the problem is that i have to navigate from website to website trying to find out if this fish is aggressive or not or if this coral needs this or this. i have to agree that i often find myself on libe aquaria because its really easy to navigate but the info seems incomplete.
i vote HECK YES!!!

Snaz · #5 04-09-2012, 09:44 PM

lastlight · #6 04-09-2012, 09:55 PM

The Zeovit Forums have a nice SPS area:

http://www.zeovit.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=98

I think this extends to other corals and fish as well but I've only ever looked in the SPS one.

fabbroc · #7 04-10-2012, 12:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snaz

WIKI

It would be wiki style.

Well looks like it would still be usefull. I'll get rolling on this project

RuGlu6 · #8 05-09-2012, 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fabbroc

It would be wiki style.

Well looks like it would still be useful. I'll get rolling on this project

Any stile would be better IF you can see the picture first instead of scientific name. Because if you don't know the name (that is the reason you looking it up in the first place) it will take hours to click on all names to see the picture you are looking for.
So pictures first (can be small) descriptions second.
Thank you for your efforts.
jmtcw

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