How to keep track
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mike dunagan;1743861; said:
I looked at his page... Great start. But he made this comment about having this fish room set up in his garage....I've been to his house three or four times and never seen a fish room in the garage. Something's fishy here and it isn't my tanks.
Better get started on that room Mike!
I have a buddy who engraved the names of his fish on his stand/wrote it on there with sharpie...... he likes knives...
I'm at a point right now where I can still remember all of them that I have... I've only got about 120 adult fish(mostly in the 3-6" range, although some much larger), with probably 180 more tanganyikan fry, so I have yet to require a notebook or anything haha.
I'm at a point right now where I can still remember all of them that I have... I've only got about 120 adult fish(mostly in the 3-6" range, although some much larger), with probably 180 more tanganyikan fry, so I have yet to require a notebook or anything haha.
i know them off be heart ,because i only have 2 tanks thats are communitys :-O
the rest are pairs/communitys but i really need a log book of buy/sell etc...
the rest are pairs/communitys but i really need a log book of buy/sell etc...
I keep track of certain data in a notebook and pocket calender.
I just use the pocket calender to track water changes (and to keep track mouthbrooding periods).
In the note book in which I keep track of every single fish (or fish brood), coral, and invertebrate I have (excluding SW hermit crabs and SW snails).
Primarily it's used to note how long I've had it. At the top I enter a code which corresponds either to an individual fish (RZ1=Red zebra 1), or brood (RED3=third brood of red zebra fry and represents all the fry in that brood). The numbers indicate the number of months it's been in my care or has been alive (in the case with tank born fish).
I use different codes to indicate whether the entry is an individual fish or brood of fry (RZ3, SO4, YL1 represent individual red zebra, socolofi or yellow lab, while RED1, SOC1, YEL3represent the sequential broods of those species).
Every month on the anniversary of purchase or birth I enter the abbreviated month in the column if the fish is still living. If it died or got killed its column receives a series of X's or S's in the column if sold).
I can capture 33 months on a page, and then it's continued on the back (sold and deceased fish on the first page are omitted on the back page).
I'm up to over a dozen pages now (including back page data).
Here's a sample:
Deciphered, it's a snapshot of 27 months and (not in order) indicates: 3 red zebra broods (two of which were sold), two socolofi broods, a yellow lab and acei brood, 6 individual msobo's (2 of which were killed after 11 months), a blue crayfish (which died after 10 months); and a synodontis ocellifer which I've had for 25 months now.
I tried duplicating this and other stuff on my computer but due to a computer mishap lost all that data (which I didn't back up), so just use notebook entries.
On the saltwater side (as I keep marine tanks as well), and in the same notebook, I keep track of the age of my lights, DI resin, carbon and phosphate removing media (GFO), coral growth, etc.
I just use the pocket calender to track water changes (and to keep track mouthbrooding periods).
In the note book in which I keep track of every single fish (or fish brood), coral, and invertebrate I have (excluding SW hermit crabs and SW snails).
Primarily it's used to note how long I've had it. At the top I enter a code which corresponds either to an individual fish (RZ1=Red zebra 1), or brood (RED3=third brood of red zebra fry and represents all the fry in that brood). The numbers indicate the number of months it's been in my care or has been alive (in the case with tank born fish).
I use different codes to indicate whether the entry is an individual fish or brood of fry (RZ3, SO4, YL1 represent individual red zebra, socolofi or yellow lab, while RED1, SOC1, YEL3represent the sequential broods of those species).
Every month on the anniversary of purchase or birth I enter the abbreviated month in the column if the fish is still living. If it died or got killed its column receives a series of X's or S's in the column if sold).
I can capture 33 months on a page, and then it's continued on the back (sold and deceased fish on the first page are omitted on the back page).
I'm up to over a dozen pages now (including back page data).
Here's a sample:
Deciphered, it's a snapshot of 27 months and (not in order) indicates: 3 red zebra broods (two of which were sold), two socolofi broods, a yellow lab and acei brood, 6 individual msobo's (2 of which were killed after 11 months), a blue crayfish (which died after 10 months); and a synodontis ocellifer which I've had for 25 months now.
I tried duplicating this and other stuff on my computer but due to a computer mishap lost all that data (which I didn't back up), so just use notebook entries.
On the saltwater side (as I keep marine tanks as well), and in the same notebook, I keep track of the age of my lights, DI resin, carbon and phosphate removing media (GFO), coral growth, etc.
kay-bee;1748796; said:I keep track of certain data in a notebook and pocket calender.
I just use the pocket calender to track water changes (and to keep track mouthbrooding periods).
In the note book in which I keep track of every single fish (or fish brood), coral, and invertebrate I have (excluding SW hermit crabs and SW snails).
Primarily it's used to note how long I've had it. At the top I enter a code which corresponds either to an individual fish (RZ1=Red zebra 1), or brood (RED3=third brood of red zebra fry and represents all the fry in that brood). The numbers indicate the number of months it's been in my care or has been alive (in the case with tank born fish).
I use different codes to indicate whether the entry is an individual fish or brood of fry (RZ3, SO4, YL1 represent individual red zebra, socolofi or yellow lab, while RED1, SOC1, YEL3represent the sequential broods of those species).
Every month on the anniversary of purchase or birth I enter the abbreviated month in the column if the fish is still living. If it died or got killed its column receives a series of X's or S's in the column if sold).
I can capture 33 months on a page, and then it's continued on the back (sold and deceased fish on the first page are omitted on the back page).
I'm up to over a dozen pages now (including back page data).
Here's a sample:
Deciphered, it's a snapshot of 27 months and (not in order) indicates: 3 red zebra broods (two of which were sold), two socolofi broods, a yellow lab and acei brood, 6 individual msobo's (2 of which were killed after 11 months), a blue crayfish (which died after 10 months); and a synodontis ocellifer which I've had for 25 months now.
I tried duplicating this and other stuff on my computer but due to a computer mishap lost all that data (which I didn't back up), so just use notebook entries.
On the saltwater side (as I keep marine tanks as well), and in the same notebook, I keep track of the age of my lights, DI resin, carbon and phosphate removing media (GFO), coral growth, etc.
OMG.
I am impressed with your unielding tactics.
Nice, Once I sell a fish other than remember I had it, it is dead to me. I see them later and we do not even talk.
