Common abbreviations used in Discus posts...

[brewmaster15]

Some common abbreviations that come to mind...

BD= blue diamond
Pb=pigeon blood
ss=snakeskin
f1 = first generation of a cross
MR=marlboro red
WD =white diamond
rsg= red spotted green

Please add ones you know, and eventually we will have a good listing...

Thanks,
al

[Ryan]

Hmmmm... An over-all glossary or just a fish-related glossary? Here's some common chat abbreviations that people use in the chat room and on the forum:

BRB - Be Right Back
BBS - Be Back Soon
BBL - Be Back Later
BBIAB - Be Back In A Bit
BBIAF - Be Back In A Few
GDAWC - Go Do A Water Change
IME - In My Experience
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion/In My Honest Opinion (I've seen it both ways)
IMO - In My Opinion
LOL - Laughing Out Loud
N/M - No message (used on some forums)/Nevermind
ROTFL/ROFL - Rolling On the Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO - Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A$$ Off
ROTFPIMP - Rolling On The Floor Peeing In My Pants
TTYL - Type/Talk To You Later
W/C - Water Change

And for a couple fish-related ones:

BH - Beefheart
BW - (Hikari) Bloodworms or (California/Live) Blackworms
PP - Potassium Permanganate (sp?)
X - A cross.. usually seen between two strains of discus
example: pigeon blood X snakeskin

[brewmaster15]

Good add-ins Ryan! Might as well make a complete listingof the "language" we use on this board!!
-al

[BlueTurquoise]

HTH = Hope this/that helps
BTW = by the way
AFK = Away from keyboard

Metro = Metronidazole
Prazi = praziquantel

Cheers! Nathan

Hello All,
Here is a link to common abbreviations:

http://www.computeruser.com/resource...nary/chat.html

Regards,
David

[brewmaster15]

Nice link, thanks David.

-al

Ryan,
Now Pam and hundreds of others know the abbrevations.
Good Job

Miles

[bcblair]

What are

HOB filtration
AQ
QT(asin I have a AQ on my 30 gal QT)





A couple I picked up on after a while.

RO - Reverse osmosis

and

LFS= Local fish store.

[Carol_Roberts]

HOB filtration =Hang On Back (power filte like aqua Clear)

AQ Sometimes I think folks really mean AC for Aqua Clear

QT=quarantine (as in I have a AQ on my 30 gal QT)

Carol

[DISCUSDADDYSLC]

WWIPMN - Wait while I pic my nose :-\ WWIPMB - Use your imagination Wait thats a good one UYI O.K. I,ll stop

[bokgrasul]

Thank you for sharing your experience with us!
For me ,it really helps!
8)

[Owen]

Sorry to be a nitpick here! F1, F2, etc is "Filial".

fil·i·al
adj.
Of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter: filial respect.
Having or assuming the relationship of child or offspring to parent.
Genetics. Of or relating to a generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation.

[Rikk]

F1 is the first cross of wild fish or from any fish ?

[Rod]

When i think of F1 discus i thought it was meant to mean that the fish are produced from 2 wild parents of the same subspecies. F2 would be 2nd generation (1st inbred generation) and so on.

So that would mean an F5 RSG would be a pure bred Symphysodon Aequafasciata Aequafasciata inbred 4 times from wild parental stock.

Rod

[Rikk]

i heard that when you have two fish, not wild, and they are crossed they called them also F1
because it is the first fry

that should not be normal, or is it ?