DIY section

[J Teezy]

what's the possibilities of getting a DIY section?

[Heatheranne]

You could try sending John a PM. There are too many posts for him to see them all sometimes. Best chance for an answer is to send him a message.

[flybyferns]

what's the possibilities of getting a Do It Yourself section?

Josh - Great Idea !
Just a thought ........It might have to broken down into a few sub topics though?
or a separate DIY for each forum species area etc.
It coud be created like an outline: ?
John might consider giving it a sticky like the one Grif and I did brain-stormed " Trouble in the Enclosure" or the one Don did "Frog First Aid Medications-Being Prepared"

DIY
FROG HABITATS
Aquatic Habitats
Terrestrial Habitats
Arboreal Habitats
Underground Habitats- don't know how many FF members have a hot, dry desert, type of frog ? sounds fun though ????????
Rain Chambers/Foggers
etc

FEEDER HABITATS
crickets
fruit flies
roaches
wax worms
etc

Really great idea !

[GrifTheGreat]

It's a great idea! I love DIY stuff! It would be very handy to have all those threads consolidated. It would be like Instrucatables for Frogs. :-D

However, you are going to run into the overlap problem... for instance, would a DIY vivarium thread be in a subsection of the vivarium section or just in a seperate DIY section? Same with a thread on DIY dubia culturing: Feeder section or seperate DIY? They ran into the same problem when people wanted to set up a seperate First Aid section; some first aid applies to all frogs and some is more breed specific.

I'd like to hear more feedback from members about what they would be looking for in a section like this. That would help. :-)

[Heatheranne]

I love the idea of sections, though true they would cross over, but it'd be easy to follow .

Brilliant!

[Namio]

what's the possibilities of getting a DIY section?

Excellent idea as I would love to learn from you guys!
Although I can't help to contribute but I can always leech, lol.

[Robby Cash]

I'd love to have a DIY section.

[Heatheranne]

You could msg John and see if he'd like to add this topic as it's own section. He added an art section for us an a fieldwork section. Never know .

[KingCam]

Too bad there's not a way to list the same thread in two or more categories. That would solve the overlapping problem, but is probably not possible. I know nothing about forum software or scripting, so it's easy for me to make impossible suggestions :P

[Kellbri]

I would love a do it yourself section cause i have been looking for a forum that someone might have posted on how to do a background conversion for a tank. I have a 20 long that i converted into an upright terrarium and now i would like to use the great stuff that i have heard about to do a background but i am not sure on how to do it. It would help to see how people have done their tanks.

[deranged chipmunk]

Another forum i belong to has a massive diy thread. It's not broken up into sections and yes, there are multiple posts of the same stuff, but that's why there's a search button. i think breaking something like that up into subsections will start to get overly confusing. But since we're talking about a new section, why not a plant section? Or did i miss it somewhere?

[flybyferns]

Another forum i belong to has a massive Do It Yourself thread. It's not broken up into sections and yes, there are multiple posts of the same stuff, but that's why there's a search button. i think breaking something like that up into subsections will start to get overly confusing. But since we're talking about a new section, why not a plant section? Or did i miss it somewhere?

Hi Bill
Glad to see this thread resurrected.
( I wonder where Josh has been ? )
Josh has done a few great build threads.

I'm sure John would enjoy knowing FF members have this interest in a DIY section.
Someone simply needs to PM him. OR We will be seeing him at the show. We can speak to him personally.
Are you still going?
Lynn

[UncleChester]

I would love a do it yourself section cause i have been looking for a forum that someone might have posted on how to do a background conversion for a tank. I have a 20 long that i converted into an upright terrarium and now i would like to use the great stuff that i have heard about to do a background but i am not sure on how to do it. It would help to see how people have done their tanks.

Check out John's sticky in the vivarium forum about a http://www.frogforum.net/vivarium-te...struction.html. It includes pictures of an expanding foam background construction. Or google "greatstuff vivarium background" and you'll get a pile of examples, instructions and videos.

Another forum i belong to has a massive Do It Yourself thread. It's not broken up into sections and yes, there are multiple posts of the same stuff, but that's why there's a search button. i think breaking something like that up into subsections will start to get overly confusing. But since we're talking about a new section, why not a plant section? Or did i miss it somewhere?

Plant stuff often gets asked in the vivarium forum. A plant sub-forum under vivariums might be useful, but the vivarium forum doesn't really move super fast as it is.



Instead of dividing things up into more overlapping forums, I'd rather see more quality Do It Yourself/Plant/etc articles. This has the advantage of information that gets frequently referenced being readily available. For example Don's http://www.frogforum.net/vivarium-te...se-bottom.html should be under Frog Forum - Vivarium Articles but doesn't appear to have made it (I suspect due to time constraints then being forgotten about). And yes, I realize that if I'm going to suggest things like this I should be prepared to contribute instead of meekly staring at my feet like I'm currently doing.