Section dedicated to aquascaping

MRTom wrote:It would be nice to get notified when a post on the gallery gets a comment. Since there is no "feed" for it, we can't find out when a comment has been made. Then the gallery could become this "section" on what inspired that tank.

dwarfpike wrote:Maybe a more general set up section ... so not just aquascaping, but filters, heaters, tank sizes, sand, ect ... would give it more traffic than one dedicated strictly to aquascaping (though equipment already has a section so maybe not).

fishNAbowl wrote:


That's cool. Invertebrates as it's own forum. Aquascapes and freshwater plants together. This may even tie in the African rift lake people with hardcore aquascape plant people because rift lake people would share their aquascape ideas, projects with everyone. I hardly venture to African cichlids. And even Salty's may venture over to share their aquascape ideas, projects and what not.

MRTom wrote:The latter topic sounds like eminent domain of DIY :)The former topic about African/goldfish/Asian (I assume Asian = river setups) is more blurry. My vote is for folks to make the best educated guess as to where to place them (Africans in the African cichlid section, goldfish maybe in cold water?, Asian rivers would probably land in general FW?). The folks in the community can chime in on the thread if it needs to be relocated to a better fit. Mods do this already for all topics, though fairly silently.

Another option is the "photos" section... which is where I think these will all gravitate to anyway. Most of us don't say "hey, look at my aquascape"... we tend to say "hey, look at my tank yo! it is aquascaped!".

I don't think lack of a dedicated aquascaping section has deterred folks from posting their setups, or from posting links to other folks' aquascapes. Has it?

Aquarium Co-Op wrote:The reality is that creating sections is mostly useless when everyone uses the portal and this is why I've tried to move away from the portal.  It doesn't really matter what section something goes in if we are all accessing it from a single point of entry anyways.

Aquarium Co-Op wrote:That being said, when a need arises for a forum. It will be created. If lots of threads develop about hardscape and continues that way for a length of time, we can certainly move all the threads into a new forum should it be necessary.

The more you split up conversation, the less it will be seen. For instance I don't spend a lot of time looking through South American threads. However in the photo of the month contest I voted for some. Because it was mixed in with something I was already looking at.

fishNAbowl wrote:But again, by the little participation in this thread I assume there will be very little interest outside of myself and perhaps a couple others.