Acronyms

[Reef junkie]

Any way the can be a list of all the acronyms? I have seen several used and don’t have a clue what the mean.

 

[Jessican]

Sure, we can put something together, and I could make a reference list on the Useful Links page. Can you start by posting the ones you saw?

 

[Jessican]

Here are a couple I can think of off the top of my head:

• HOB - hang on back
• NFG - nitrofuracin green
• CP - can be either Copper Power or chloroquine phosphate

 

[clsanchez77]

Feel free to grab these as a start:

ATO - Auto Top Off
ATS - Algae Turf Scrubber
AWC - Auto Water Change
CP - Chloroquine Phosphate (or sometimes Copper Power)
CUC - Cleanup Crew (Mobile Utilitarian Inverts)
DIY - Do It Yourself
DSB - Deep Sand Bed
DT - Display Tank
HO - High Output (T5 Fluorescent Lighting)
HOB - Hang On Back (skimmers and other equipment)
FO - Fish Only
FOWLR - Fish Only with Live Rock
GC - General Cure
GPH - Gallons per Hour
GPM - Gallons per Minutes
LED - Light Emitting Diode
FS - For Sale
LFS - Local Fish Store
LPS - Large Polyp Stony (Coral)
LR - Live Rock
LS - Live Sand
MB - Methylene Blue
NPS - Non-Photosynthetic Stony (Coral)
OP - Original Post or Original Poster
QT - Quarantine Tank
RO - Reverse Osmosis
RODI - Reverse Osmosis and Di-Ionization
RUF or RUGF - Reverse Underground Filter
RAOK - Random Act of Kindness (hobbyists giving something away)
SPS - Small Polyp Stony (Coral)
TTM - Tank Transfer Method
UV - Ultra Violet (light)
WTB - Want to Buy

 

[clsanchez77]

Forgot one,

HF - Humble Fish lol

 

[Jessican]

@clsanchez77 I knew there were way more, they just weren’t coming to me thanks for the starter list!

 

[clsanchez77]

As an engineer, I write a lot of reports....and tabulating acronyms is something we are programmed to do. Thank god he did not ask for a glossary. Takes much longer

 

[Reef junkie]

yup several of those are the culprits lol thanks

 

[Reef junkie]

I’ve been reefing since 2007 but not to skilled on the qt side trying to up my game for the new build

 

[clsanchez77]

I’ve been reefing since 2007 but not to skilled on the qt side trying to up my game for the new build

You found the right place. There is so much misinformation on quarantining and fish health on the internet, this is hands down the best place to get good quality information from the hobbyists rolling up their sleeves and actually investigating this area of the hobby.

 

[Reef junkie]

As an engineer, I write a lot of reports....and tabulating acronyms is something we are programmed to do. Thank god he did not ask for a glossary. Takes much longer

I’m a big Elon musk fan and he banned the use of all acronyms in all his company’s unless they are approved by him he says it slowed down progress for new people coming onboard.

 

[clsanchez77]

I’m a big Elon musk fan and he banned the use of all acronyms in all his company’s unless they are approved by him he says it slowed down progress for new people coming onboard.

I agree with him on that one, LOL. I hate them, but engineering reports are bad enough and my last report was almost 300 pages. I cannot imagine telling me no acronyms lol. They serve a useful purpose. On the flip side, I have done a lot of work for the federal government, FEMA and the USACE. Both of these have published acronym guides and they are ridiculous. When I was on a 9 month FEMA assignment, we would play the FEMA drinking game when holed up in our hotel rooms at night. Someone guesses and acronym - if its not in the book, they take a shot - if it is, then everyone else takes the shot.

 

[Reef junkie]

I think there’s a difference when there is a formal process for using them! But say youre a new engineer at spacex And they developed a new process and gave it and acronym. any you never were told what it meant then the person learning behind you doesn’t know it either. Then the person that came up with the acronym leaves the company now no one knows the origin of the process the education gets lost to me it’s fine to use them but there has to be a place to look up what they mean

 

[Jessican]

@clsanchez77 you missed one - GC (General Cure)

 

[clsanchez77]

@clsanchez77 you missed one - GC (General Cure)

No I did not, was there the whole time

 

[clsanchez77]

I think there’s a difference when there is a formal process for using them! But say youre a new engineer at spacex And they developed a new process and gave it and acronym. any you never were told what it meant then the person learning behind you doesn’t know it either. Then the person that came up with the acronym leaves the company now no one knows the origin of the process the education gets lost to me it’s fine to use them but there has to be a place to look up what they mean

Completely agree. Where government is different is nobody ever leaves, not even when their program is over LOL.

And in case any one thought I was kidding. There is a hard copy of this BS somewhere in my house:

https://www.fema.gov/pdf/plan/prepare/faatlist07_09.pdf

 

[intense37716]

WC - Water Change

 

[Dierks]

PAR - Photosynthetically Active Radiation

 

[oceanfrontinNE]

PPM or PPT Parts per million or parts per thousand

 

[MrWheelock]

SAD sudden acro death: when one SPS just doesn't make it despite all the stars being aligned and every other SPS thriving.