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Contents 1 Care Sheets 2 Categories 3 Storefronts, Shops, businesses and all other commercial activity 4 For Experienced Wiki Users

Care Sheets

A care sheet article is an article on a specific animal or group of very similar animals. It should answer some basic questions. Don't feel like you need to know the answer to all of them to start an article. If an article doesn't exist, go ahead and create one and fill in what you know!

• What's my animals name - The various names the animal goes by in the trade
• How do I know this is my animal - Physical description that can be used to determine the animal you have in front of you is the animal you think it is. Pictures are very helpful. Commentary that helps a person distinguish between similar animals is also very helpful.
• Environment - Temperature, salinity, lighting, etc. Especially if anything special is required.
• Reef Safe - The websites focus is on marine reef aquariums, so how well the animal does in a reef should be included if known.
• Hardiness - How hard is it to keep this animal
• Feeding - What does it eat and how do you feed it?
• Propigation - How to reproduce the animal. A link to a broader propagation article that covers a group of animals is certainly acceptable.

Categories

Care sheets should be attributed to existing categories whenever possible. New categories should only be made if several animals already in the system could be grouped into the category, and categorizing them together would add value for a person doing research on the animal. Categories should also be documented and information about the generalities that link the animals inside the category included. A common mistake beginners make is to create a bunch of categories for articles that don't exist. Remember, categories only add value when there's things to categorize into them!

Storefronts, Shops, businesses and all other commercial activity

Shop owners and breeders are welcome and encouraged to join the frugal reef community. You may create a page describing your store, contact information, what you have for sale, etc and add it to the "Shops" category. You may do business out of that page if you wish.

If you do create a page for your business you may request that your web page be marked as protected from anonymous edits, or frozen. You may link to your business website from your frugal reef page so long as your website also runs a non-hidden link to frugal reef in a conspicuous location, such as a "links" page or on your main page.

Please be a responsible member of the community and do not engage in anything underhanded. Please do not link to your store from "content" articles. You may link to your store from talk pages, so long as you do so by hand and for a reason relevant to the conversation. You may edit out anything on your store page you don't like, however, you may not delete talk articles you don't like, but are rather encouraged to respond to them. If you feel your are being the victim of abusive behavior, please contact David Hinkle.

You may not interact with frugal reef in an automated manner of any kind without first clearing it through David Hinkle, the director of frugal reef. Permission will probably be granted, so long as your request does not harm frugalreef or the frugal reef community.

Feel free to email David Hinkle with any questions.

For Experienced Wiki Users

Differences between our policies and what you may be used to:

• No Stubs - Don't make a stub article on purpose. If you run across one, don't delete it but do delete any category tags it may have.
• Citing - Please cite if you can, but if you can't that's ok too. If you're not citing please speak from personal experience. If a disagreement of fact arises, the individual who can cite wins. If a disagreement of opinion arises, include both with supporting arguments.
• Opinions and Original Research Allowed - Frugalreef is not an encyclopedia. Opinions on care and the sharing of first hand knowledge is allowed and encouraged.