AquAdvisor - software to help you stock your tanks!

So I finally installed it (I post a lot from work and can't put it on my work laptop). Overall, very impressive! All the future inhabitants of my tank were on the list so I'm happy (well except albino cories, but close enough). The stocking level I got was about what I would've said. Like other people said, it's not exact, but I think it's certainly enough to be a very useful too. :)
 
clb2196 said:
So I finally installed it (I post a lot from work and can't put it on my work laptop). Overall, very impressive! All the future inhabitants of my tank were on the list so I'm happy (well except albino cories, but close enough). The stocking level I got was about what I would've said. Like other people said, it's not exact, but I think it's certainly enough to be a very useful too. :)
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That's good. :) Keep the comments coming though if you find any, especially in the area that you feel are not exact. Albino cory is coming in v0.4. :D
 
yhbae said:
That's good. :) Keep the comments coming though if you find any, especially in the area that you feel are not exact. Albino cory is coming in v0.4. :D
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Oh one thing- I noticed the recommended minimum of Kuhli loaches was 3. I'm no loach expert, but I think people here have said they prefer 6 or more.

ETA: ahaha, totally off topic but I just noticed the mistake in my sig- 2+2 != 5. LOL
 
I don't know if this has been asked and answered before - where do you get your fish data? Do you have a regular source of such data as maximum size, minimum number required, etc? It's because different sites may provide varying information.

For instance, a clown loach is listed in Microcosm Aquarium Explorer as 12in max; at Badman's Tropical Fish at 18in; at Mongabay, 20in in the wild, 12in in captivity; and at Loaches Online at 16in. [This is just an example; I am not making any judgement on the reliability of all these sites - just pointing out the different information one gets from the net.]
 
iam1ru12 said:
I don't know if this has been asked and answered before - where do you get your fish data? Do you have a regular source of such data as maximum size, minimum number required, etc? It's because different sites may provide varying information.

For instance, a clown loach is listed in Microcosm Aquarium Explorer as 12in max; at Badman's Tropical Fish at 18in; at Mongabay, 20in in the wild, 12in in captivity; and at Loaches Online at 16in. [This is just an example; I am not making any judgement on the reliability of all these sites - just pointing out the different information one gets from the net.]
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And yes this is a problem. I currently use 3 or 4 different profile sites and try to make some educated guesses from there. Obviously I would not use the numbers in the wild. And attributes like min numbers needed are some what subjective too. I try to stick to 6 for schooling fishes and 5 for mbuna species (and others that require 1 male to many females). There are some special ones like P Demasoni which is set to 10, etc.
 
Hopefully that site I gave you helped out (way back on the first or second page I think).

How does the bio-load work? Does that mean a 2 inch fish with a 1.8 bioload would count as just under 2 inches in the 'inch/gallon' outcome?

Oh and thanks for adding my fish :)
 
venarius said:
Hopefully that site I gave you helped out (way back on the first or second page I think).

How does the bio-load work? Does that mean a 2 inch fish with a 1.8 bioload would count as just under 2 inches in the 'inch/gallon' outcome?

Oh and thanks for adding my fish :)
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Actually its a bit more complicated than that. But if you simplify the idea, yes that is close to what happens. In reality, I have sets of variables everywhere that I can play with which applies across all species, and I essentially reverse engineer until I can tweak these variables to match the result I want to see. In my "unit tests" I have 12 tank configurations and I always make sure those look correct when I make further adjustments.

And I don't use gallon in the calculation - only the surface area. And the scale is not linear (as I found out). Hence a tank twice as large (at surface level) actually holds a bit more than twice as much fishes.
 
An interesting (but useless) stat:

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This shows # of downloads for v0.3 since it was uploaded. Predictably US is way ahead of rest of the world. I count as 1 here for Canadians! :D
 
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