My Aquariums ....

[jar]

It seems if you have one species distributed across two tanks, you cant indicate that in the database yes? Or am I missing something?

[DutchFry]

you can add this species again and again to your mycats section, then divide them over the tanks you keep this species in

[Jools]

DutchFry is correct, the idea is you record populations. So if you have one species in three tanks, you should have three "my cats" records each one associated with its own "my aquaria" record.

Why?

Take this example, perhaps you have a two groups of one species and you are keeping them in two different tanks. One is kept warmer than the other and they breed in the cooler one. So, it is important to record two groups and splitting them allows correct analysis of the data associated with the aquaria they are being kept in.

Jools

[jar]

Thanks guys, that was actually what I was trying to do. I hadn't worked out you could add a "my cats" more than once for the same species. (: As far as I can tell you have to go back to the "species" page, and then use the "add to my species" link to add another record, I didn't know this would have that effect (:

[MatsP]

Thanks guys, that was actually what I was trying to do. I hadn't worked out you could add a "my cats" more than once for the same species. (: As far as I can tell you have to go back to the "species" page, and then use the "add to my species" link to add another record, I didn't know this would have that effect (:

That is the correct way of doing it. Obviously, a quick way to add more of a species you already have is to go to "my cats" and click on the species link and then click on "add to my cats".

It may be a neat idea to have a "split/merge populations", but my guess is that it's such a rare procedure that it's not really worth writing the code to do that.

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Mats