Idea for Polling fish mortality rates

[danny zubot]

Great idea Chin, I would definately contribute my experiences. I was just going over some of the literature I have on fish, and well, it's out dated. Most books will rate each fish's difficulty in care, and list it's compatability with other fish and inverts. As well as food types and various other husbandry notes. However, none of the books I've ever read indicates where they acquired this data from. I always get the impression that it's all the author's opinion, so how would my skill stack up against the author of the book?

Having an index of our own would allow me to come up with my own opinion on weather I should buy a fish, based on how I feel my skills are compared to other reefers that I already know. Far more valuable to me than any book I've read.

As far as the physical statistics of this kind of poll are concerned, have fun! At work I deal with stats a bit, and by the time I'm finished developing the perfect chart, which accurately indicates the multiple variables I'm looking to portray, I usually have a head ache, and my neck is numb. I'll be interested to see how this developes.

[fiorano]

i think its an aweosme idea id really like to know how people kept fish alive and for how long

[Redrover]

Great idea...does this include freshwater ?

[Chin_Lee]

Originally Posted by Redrover

Great idea...does this include freshwater ?

sorry but we are limiting this to saltwater fish at this time......... I feel that FW fish is a whole different ball game with very strong variable such as wild caught or bred locally or bred elsewhere........ Most saltwater is wild caught so thats not a variable that needs to be taken into consideration.

[Redrover]

That Sucks!!!!

[kwirky]

I could maybe whip something up in PHP and host it on my wikireef.net

I'll play around and let u guys know how it goes. I'm thinking that users could create fish species and users could add their average lifespan of fish species that have been created in the database.

I'm designing the program and I'll let y'all know whether it's something simple to implement...

update: I have a bit of the program working now. uses a database. you can check it out here: http://www.kwirky88.com/lifeline/
update on the update: the php's almost functional now. I have a form to add fish species to the database, I'm working on the form to submit your own death/s, and then I will be implementing an image thumbnailer possibly. It's coming along.