From the moderator SIM on the colchester thread
"For the record, I do prefer that new topics be posted in a separate thread rather than in one long thread. It makes it far easier to manage and to track down information.
If someone visits the site and is looking for information on a specific animal or enclosure, it makes it much easier for them to find it if the information is in a specific thread rather than in one very long thread.
Also - don't assume that everyone has read every thread. This topic may have been posted in another thread, but when I had a quick look for it, I couldn't even find it myself. I'm sure it would not have been an issue if the other post was in its own thread rather than at the end of a general thread."