Abbreviations & Acronyms

[Oddball]

OK folks, here's the place to offer your FISH RELATED forum abbreviations and acronyms. To make the growing list useable, I'm going to update the list alphabetically. I'll start it off. Feel free to join in. Your contribution (if used) will help our new members and those members that languished in the shadows of uncertainty concerning these much-used abbreviations.

A
Afaro/afro - african arowana
aro - arowana
ARTC - asian Red Tail Cat
AST - alligator snapping turtle
AT - American Tiger
ATF - African tiger fish
ATP - African Tiger Pike
AUL - Australian lungfish

Aro/Arowana Related:

BBXB - BLUE BASE CROSSBACK
BMBXB - BUKIT MERAH BLUE CROSSBACK
EBXB - ELECTRIC BLUE CROSSBACK
GXB - GOLDEN CROSSBACK
HBRTG - HIGH-BACKED RED TAILED GOLDEN
JAR - JARDINI AROWANA
Lei - Leichardti
RTG - RED TAILED GOLDEN
SHVFSR - spoon head violet fusion super red
SR - SUPER RED (INCLUDES CR-CHILI RED , BR-BLOOD RED AND VFSR-VIOLET FUSION SUPER RED, ER-EMPEROR RED)
VFSR - violet fusion super red
XB - CROSSBACK (refers to the sixth level scales which cross aros back)
YT - YELLOW TAIL


B
BA - blue acara
BB - bare bottom; bumblebee; Black Belt cichlids; Benificial Bacteria
BBS - baby brine shrimp
bgk - black ghost knife
BN - bushy-nose pleco (Ancistris)
BP - blood parrot
BW - blood worms

Betta-Related:
BF - butterfly
Bwe - blackwater extract
CT - crowntail
DT - doubletail
HM - halfmoon
HR - half round
IAL - indian almond leaves
KCT - king crowntail
MB - marble (a color)
MG - mustard gas
PK - plakat
RB - royal blue
RT - roundtail
ST - spadetail
VT - veiltail


C
CC - Crushed Coral
ck - clown knife
cl - clown loach
Con - convict cichlid
cong/congi - polypterus endlicheri congicus
cyno/cyano - herichthys cyanoguttatus/texas cichlid; Cyanobacteria

D
Dat - any of the Datnoid/Tigerfish
DE - Drop Eye
Del- Polypterus delhezi
DIY - Do It Yourself
DO - dissolved oxygen
DOC - dissolved organic compound

E
EBH - electric blue hap
EBJD - electric blue jack dempsey
EL - egg-laying
endi (endli) - Polypterus endlicheri endlicheri

F
F0 - Wild caught
F1 - First brood from Wild caught parents
FBF - fluidized bed filter
FD - freeze-dried
FF - fei feng (flagtail prochilodus)
FH - flowerhorn
FM - firemouth
FOWLR - fish only, with live rock (SW aquarium)
FPT- female pipe threads
front - Cyphotilapia frontosa
FRT - Fly River turtle
FW - freshwater

G
GATF - Goliath Af. Tiger Fish
GBR - German Blue Ram
Geo - for all Geophagus
gH - general hardness
gibb - Cyphotilapia gibberosa
gibby - sailfin plec (Glyptoperichthys gibbiceps)
gph/gpm - gallons per hour/gallons per minute
GN - gold nugget pleco
GS - Gold Saum
gsp - green spotted puffer
GT - green terror

H
HDME - Hawaiian Dragon Moray Eel
HITH - hole in the head (disease)
HLLE - Head Lateral Line Erosion
HOB (HOT) - hang on back (tank) filter
HRP - Honduran Red Point

I
Ich - Ichthyophthirius (white spot disease)
ID - Inside Diameter
IT - Indonesian Tiger

J
jag - jaguar (cichlid, catfish, etc.)
JB - jelly bean parrot
jd - jack dempsey
JK - jin kang (flowerhorn)


L
Lap - Polypterus lapradei
LB - live-bearing; pound
LF - longfin
lfs - local fish store
LH - Luo Han (flowerhorn)
LLE - lateral line erosion
LMB - largemouth bass
lps - local pet shop
LR - live rock
LS - live sand
LSN - Lima Shovelnose

M
mags - motaguense
mannies - managuense/jaguar cichlid
Metro - metronidazole (flagyl)
moke - polypterus mokelembembe
Mota - Motaguense
MPT - male pipe threads
mts - malaysian trumpet snails
multi's - either Synodontis multipunctatus or Neolamprologus multifasciatus

N
Natt - Pygocentrus Nattereri (Red Bellied Piranha)
NGT - New Guinea tiger
Nic - Nicaraguense
NTT - Northern Thailand Tiger

O
OD - outside diameter
O - oscar
OF - overflow

P
P (Ps) - piranha(s)
PB - peacock bass
PBB - Polypterus bichir bichir
pH - percentage of hardness
plec/pleco - plecostomus and members of Family: Loricariidae
PLJ - Protruding Lower Jaw
PNT - pig-nose turtle (aka FRT)
poly - any species of the genus Polypterus
Pygo - Any piranha of the genus Pygocentrus

Q
QT - quarantine/quarantine tank

R
rbp - red-belly piranha (or pacu)
RCK - royal clown knife
RD - red devil
RES - Red-Eared Slider
retro - Polypterus retropinnis
rhom - Serrasalmus rhombeus
RO - reverse osmosis
RT - red terror, red tiger (Motaguense), red texas
rtc - redtail catfish
RTG - redtail gold (aro)
RTGG - redtail giant gourami
RTM - Red tiger Motaguense

S
SA - silver arowana
SA/CA - south american/central american (cichlids)
SAE - siamese algae eater
sal - Cichlasoma salvini
SAL - south american lungfish
SB - short body
SBD - Swim Bladder Disorder
Sen - Polypterus senegalus senegalus
Serra - Any piranha of the genus Serrasalmus
Sev - Severums
SF - slip
SFME - Snow Flake Moray Eel
SG - specific gravity
SH - snakehead
SHVFSR = spoon head violet fusion super red
SMB - smallmouth bass
Spilo - Serrasalmus Spilopleura
SRS - super red shock flowerhorn
SRT- Super red texas
ST - Siamese Tiger
SW - saltwater
Syn - Paratheraps synspilum or Synodontis

T
tem - Cichla temensis
Tig - tigrinus catfish
TSN - tiger shovelnose catfish
TSNxRTC - hybrid catfish
tx/tex - texas cichlid


U
UGF - undergravel filter
UGJ - undergravel jets
Umbi - umbriferus (Caquetaia, Nandopsis, etc.)
uro - Cichlasoma uropthalmus (false red terror)
UV - ultraviolet

V
VATF- Vittatus African Tiger Fish
VFSR - Violet Fusion Super Red (aro)

W
WAL - west african lungfish
W/C {G/W} - water change {gravel wash}
W/D - wet/dry filter
WTB - Want To Buy

X
XB - crossback

[Oddball]

I'm going to be deleting responses periodically. I'm finding alot of posts suggesting abbreviations already in the list. That's telling me alot of posters aren't going to the first page's lead post before leaving a response. Now, there will only be one page.