Standardization of crab size measurement

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Guest

Post by Guest » Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:52 pm

Micro: Under .5"
Small: .5" - 1"
medium: 1" - 1.5"
Large: 1.5" - 2.5"
Jumbo: 2.5"+
1.)micro to medium crabs- # of gallons divided by 5 (minimum 10 gallons)
2.)large to jumbo crabs-# of gallons divided by 10 (minimum 20 gallons)
3.)only when 3D demensions are added to a tank, multiply finished calculations by 2 for how many micro to medium crabs you may fit (4 micros=1 large/jumbo, 2 small or medium=1 large/jumbo.)
-ignore all decimal places/round down.
-tall tank sizes are not recommended unless you make a 3D environment.
-when mixing micro to medium and large to jumbo sizes; divide the # of gallons by 10 for the jumbos, next divide # of gallons by how many jumbos fit, then divide by 5 for small crabs (ex. "20 gallon minimum" 20gallons/10=2jumbos, 20gallons/2jumbos=10/5=2micros, therefore 2 jumbos and 2 micros can fit in the tank.)
NOTES:
-size of crabs are measured longest width when a crab is in a normal sitting stance.
-measurements are accurate with surface area.
Last edited by Guest on Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:46 pm, edited 3 times in total.


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Guest

Word document?

Post by Guest » Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:21 am

Tammi, did you try printing out the JPG document, or the word document?if its the JPG, than im not really sure how to fix it, but the owrd document should stay consistent. This is also why im trying to get this made into an adobe PDF file.

The official sizes from the paper should be as follows:

Micro: .5"
Teeny: 1"
Small: 1.5"
Medium: 2.5"
Large: 3"
Jumbo: Over 3"

Levitating:
I think your method is a little complicated, perhaps instead we just assign a number of gallons per crab, ie:

Jumbo: 5 gals
Large: 4 Gals
Medium: 3 Gals
Small: 2 Gals
Teeny & Micro: 1 Gal

Also, still looking for PDF formatting, thanks guys.

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