Poll!!! gallons...UK/US or litres

[tenxiong]

I live in the US and also don't really know much about liters and the metric system.

 

[mlee0332]

Although litres is a universal measure, I would rather hear it in us gallons b/c I can picture that better. B/c as tokis said a 130 litre tank sounds big, but its really small.

I have a hard time when people tell me add 1 tsp per litre, its hard to measure like that imo

 

[jollysue]

1 tsp per litre in a 125 uk gal. tank.

 

[mlee0332]

Well, thats all I could think of atm. Hahaha, okay 1 tsp per 50 litres, is that better/more realistic?

lol

 

[jollysue]

mlee 0332,

It's not as funny.

My yukes are because your example is so appropriate to the subject. 1 tsp per litre would be 454 tsp to a 100 UK gallon. So then I assume most of us would convert that to tbls. Is it 4 tsp to a tbls? That's 113 tbls. Am I right? I lost count at ten when I sloshed some and dropped the spoon into the tank. I suppose I could further convert the measure but I would have to scour some old cookbooks or search the web. And believe me I don't doubt that there are additives like your example.

I suppose 1 tsp per 50 litres is more realistic. I much prefer 1 tsp to 50 gal.

 

[Jen]

I use US gallons. That is the only way I have ever measured my tanks, and its the only unit of measure my fish store asks for. I find litres confusing, but thats only because I don't use them. Mind you... everything here is sold in litres (2L pop bottles, 1L buckets and what not). So I guess it's just an aquarium thing.

 

[mlee0332]

Sue your a trip! I've felt like I've had to add something like that before too!

I really hate tho, when they say 1 tsp per 10 gallons, and you have to put it in a 2.5 or a 1g. I use the whole dose in 16ozs of water mix it well, and figure the dose with that. It took 50 tsps to treat that tank ... But then again I do everything the hard way...

 

[jollysue]

 

[mrV]

I live in the US and also don't really know much about liters and the metric system.

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http/www.wnyc.org/books/5755
As things stand, of course, this conversion is embarrassingly incomplete. Americans became painfully aware of this fact in 1999 with the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter. A NASA investigation into the satellite's failure revealed that one team of engineers had used traditional American units, while another had used metric units. The result was a trajectory error of sixty miles, and a $125-million disappearing act.

 

[millym]

being from the uk but having spent a large part of my life in australia where its all been metric for years - i prefer litres i just cant imagine how much a gallon us or uk is-when i try to picture it. i still cant get used to miles vs km which they still insist on using here in the uk either

 

[mrV]

i still cant get used to miles vs km which they still insist on using here in the uk either

Hmm, I thought it is more like in this way:

"It takes 15 minutes to go to..."

Well, how many meters would that be?

 

[jollysue]

I live in the US and also don't really know much about liters and the metric system.

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http/www.wnyc.org/books/5755
As things stand, of course, this conversion is embarrassingly incomplete. Americans became painfully aware of this fact in 1999 with the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter. A NASA investigation into the satellite's failure revealed that one team of engineers had used traditional American units, while another had used metric units. The result was a trajectory error of sixty miles, and a $125-million disappearing act.

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Absolutely! I think you're right on the money mrV. That's why I voted to specify and when needed and able, translate. This whole tangled mess can only be personal preference usually based on personal experience. And in that the Uk cousins are right, the US will win a vote. It doesn't make it right, it makes it democracy. It's nothing new that it's a worldwide messy, troubling all kinds of engines.

The NASA story is a pip and a classic of miscommunication. B)