DIY section

[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

[deranged chipmunk]

Hi lynn! How's tricks? As of this very moment, i am still attending hamburg. I need a new friend who is a pixie i'll pm john when i get home from work tonight.

Brian, i understand where you are coming from, however, when someone is searching this forum for info and you tell them to just google it is kind of counter intuitive of this forum, wouldn't you agree? That's no way to build the forum, or the hobby for that matter. I always felt the point of a forum like this is to inform, through personal experiences and to help grow the hobby. Articles, while extremely informative and helpful fall short when it comes to some things. Besides, if you were looking for articles alone, one would go to a dedicated website and not a forum, true? And please don't forget, sometimes particular topics don't get a lot of activity due to lack of info. If there more diversity of the information alotted, maybe there would be more activity? I.e. lurkers becoming involved members? These are just observations i have picked up along the way in the many forums i belong to. Remember, the forum is only s strong as it's membership.

[flybyferns]

Hi lynn! How's tricks? As of this very moment, i am still attending hamburg. I need a new friend who is a pixie i'll pm john when i get home from work tonight.

Brian, i understand where you are coming from, however, when someone is searching this forum for info and you tell them to just google it is kind of counter intuitive of this forum, wouldn't you agree? That's no way to build the forum, or the hobby for that matter. I always felt the point of a forum like this is to inform, through personal experiences and to help grow the hobby. Articles, while extremely informative and helpful fall short when it comes to some things. Besides, if you were looking for articles alone, one would go to a dedicated website and not a forum, true? And please don't forget, sometimes particular topics don't get a lot of activity due to lack of info. If there more diversity of the information alotted, maybe there would be more activity? I.e. lurkers becoming involved members? These are just observations i have picked up along the way in the many forums i belong to. Remember, the forum is only s strong as it's membership.

Bill,
I'm a planning a dart viv. ( proven pair or small group )
Sadly I will not be ready by then. In fact, don't even know what I want yet.
I do know I want one on the larger side and that might use the height a bit.

Probably will get an exo-terra 36" wide 18 or 24 high- that should do it! ( nice for a group)
or
2- 24" W 18 high and 2 different species
see, see what happens

I suppose I could set up something temporary while I'm working on a more permanent enclosure.

Looking forward to meeting you, Lynn

[UncleChester]

Brian, i understand where you are coming from, however, when someone is searching this forum for info and you tell them to just google it is kind of counter intuitive of this forum, wouldn't you agree?

Not really, no. For a few reasons:


- the built in search stinks (or I'm lousy at using it compared to google)
- Frog Forum pretty much 'wins' over other forums for listings in google. If the topic exists here and you google it, Frog Forum is generally in the top 3-5, if not the first listing.
- I wouldn't ignore the vast wealth of information out on the internet just because we like it here on Frog Forum.
- You'll notice I also gave a link to a thread on Frog Forum

That's no way to build the forum, or the hobby for that matter. I always felt the point of a forum like this is to inform, through personal experiences and to help grow the hobby.

Absolutely the forum is to share experiences. That's never going to stop me from looking for information wherever I can find it, and sharing whatever I find useful no matter where it came from. We can discuss stuff here, even if we found it somewhere else.

Articles, while extremely informative and helpful fall short when it comes to some things. Besides, if you were looking for articles alone, one would go to a dedicated website and not a forum, true?

No need to have one and not the other. Articles form starting points for discussions on recurring topics. I've referred people to John's Gray Tree Frog care article dozens of times AND at the same time tried to contribute to anything not covered in the article that the inquirer was interested in. Articles can form a valuable repository of useful data and draw people into discussion. I probably would never have even bothered registering on Frog Forum if it wasn't for John's care article.

And please don't forget, sometimes particular topics don't get a lot of activity due to lack of info. If there more diversity of the information alotted, maybe there would be more activity? I.e. lurkers becoming involved members? These are just observations i have picked up along the way in the many forums i belong to. Remember, the forum is only s strong as it's membership.

If you make the space, someone will fill it? I'm just of the opinion that the Do It Yourself stuff fits under the appropriate and already existing categories. I'm not the boss though

[deranged chipmunk]

Bill,
I'm a planning a dart viv. ( proven pair or small group )
Sadly I will not be ready by then. In fact, don't even know what I want yet.
I do know I want one on the larger side and that might use the height a bit.

Probably will get an exo-terra 36" wide 18 or 24 high- that should do it! ( nice for a group)
or
2- 24" W 18 high and 2 different species
see, see what happens

I suppose I could set up something temporary while I'm working on a more permanent enclosure.

Looking forward to meeting you, Lynn

leucomelas will use the height. but i have also had discusions with folk who say their leucs only used the vertical spaces while they were young, but when they became sub adults, they stayed mostly in the teresstrial portion of the enclosures. but as we all know, all froggies are different, just like peoples

[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.