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12-01-2003, 12:00 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: O-town
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|  I won't sticky it but I'll make it part of the FAQ if everyone is in agreement.
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12-01-2003, 12:44 PM
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| Super Fish  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Nottingham, UK
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| nice bit about cycling, some articles ive read make it sound so much more complicated then u did.
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12-01-2003, 01:02 PM
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| Moderator  Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Kentucky
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| This article is great for beginers and the like because it is simple, cut and dry facts. No big scientific terms, mumbo jumbo, just straight, easy to understand answers to many questions that beginer hobbiest have. I would vote to put this in the beginer FAQ. Absolutly.
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12-01-2003, 05:17 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Delaware County, PA
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| Let's try not to let this website turn into a fish database because the experienced people are sick of the newbies' questions. What makes this website so great is that all people who appreciate fish keeping can come and interact with each other. They can share their ideas and experiences. The experienced fish keepers should consider themselves teachers. Teachers share their ideas and experiences with their students. Each year a teacher gets new students. And each year the teacher answers the same questions that were asked a year before. While I do believe a FAQ database is quite helpful, we should not streamline this website to the point where there is little interaction. I can see a future where someone asks a question and the abrupt answer is to check the FAQ. Doesn't anyone see anything wrong with that? Well, just me playing devil's advocate.... 
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12-01-2003, 08:23 PM
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| Forum Manager  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Colorado
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| Point taken Flex. I do think, however, that even after we implement an FAQ section there will still be interaction. We'll just have somewhere that the answers are already written up to quote and point people to specifically. Dont forget that these are all written by people on the board who are still here to ask questions of and talk to...so in a way the responses will be a little bit more concise and easy to go through. After all they are covering the most frequently asked questions right?? We just need to make sure that everyone stays sensitive to newbies  Somonas, yes I think this article should be in the FAQ section...and Andy should be able to make edits or a part2 if he'd like that covers any more "general" type topics that we see a lot of questions on. Maybe its a good intro?
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12-01-2003, 10:33 PM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central NY, USA
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| Great post AndyL very straight forward & easy to understand!! I agree with Flex26. Being fairly new to this hobby myself if I was just brushed off to go read the FAQ & profiles then I'd move on to another forum..... Although I can understand that longtime fishkeepers can get sick of the same old question & move on as well. A place for All is what I see this place as, hope I'm not wrong.... As froggyfox21 basically said the experienced are Needed by Newbies as teachers. (I for one appreciate my education here)
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12-02-2003, 07:35 AM
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| Large Fish Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Delaware County, PA
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| I think you are right, Froggy. The FAQ will definitely provide a reference point for many of the experienced people. And I think the FAQ is great idea. Just one more point.... As I browse through other forums, I notice that many of them are pretty dry. And I can't help but think the reason those forums are dry is because people new to the hobby feel alienated. I think they feel intimidated. Consequently, they are afraid to ask the beginner questions. So basically, these forums only have the experienced people arguing back and forth about Fluval vs Eheim. How boring is that? (Obviously, I am exaggerating to make a point.) This forum is great because it is so lively and so diverse. And by diverse, I mean a good mixture of novice, intermediate, and advanced aquarists.
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12-04-2003, 07:47 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Scotland
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| Thanks for the info I have a newb question about cycling... does the tank just cycle once before you put the fishes in? Or does it continue to cycle once they're living in it?
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12-04-2003, 09:52 PM
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| it cycles continually...fish put waste (ammonia) in, the bacteria changes it to nitrite, different bacteria changes the nitrite to nitrate...then plants or water changes that you do take the nitrates out of the water... When we talk about cycling a tank we are talking about the initial period when you're setting up a tank where all of the bacteria needed doesn't exist yet and it takes quite awhile to get it working properly.
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