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joel.uejio said:
Pre-defined tank selection works fine for me. As far as next items, if I can make a suggestion...

How about adding a "species type" filter in the fish selection area? A drop down that would let you choose "Cichlid", "Catfish", "Anabantoid", "Cyprind", etc. and then show only fish of that type. I think that would be great for people who find that they have capacity available and want to fill out their tank with a certain kind of fish.

Keep up the great work!
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Sounds like a good idea... I'll add it to the wishlist. Thanks! :D
 
What's new for 2009 11 02 build:
- Added Badis Badis.
- Added Chili/Mosquito Rasbora.
- Added Celestial Pearl Danio.
- Added Trapdoor snail.
- Minimum tank size requirement for Clown Pleco has been reduced.
- Minimum tank size requirement for Betta has been reduced to 2.5g. Now it will correctly display stock % for 2.5g tanks as well.
- Bioloads for shrimps have been further adjusted down.
- Temperature requirement for Gold Fish species have been narrowed to more realistic numbers.
- Some of the puffer species have been identified as brakish.
- Diamond Tetra aggression has been updated. It should be ok now with more aggressive tetras.
- Aggression for some aggressive Tetras (black phantom, skirt, black widow and serpae) have been downgraded. Lots of people were confirming that they do not have this issues.
- Territorial aggression algorithm has been completely revamped. It works for all bottom dwellers (assuming DB is accurate). Territorial male behaviors and breeding pair aggressions are all accounted for. Previous breeding pair detection warning is now disabled since this revamp covers this case as well. This algorithm may require further fine tuning!
- Minimum number for shoaling species have been reduced from 6 to 5. Got lots of responses saying they have 5 and they are fine, which is probably true.
- Minimum number for nippy shoaling species have been reduced from 9 to 6, again based on user feedback so far.
- Bioload for the smallest and thinnest species have been brought up slightly. Received some comments that the site is too generous with small fishes.
- Added 35g tall tank.
- Added Tetra Whisper series filters.
- Added Tetra PF series filters.
- Added Aquarium System Millenium series filters.
- Added Danner series filters.
- Added Cascade series filters.
- Added more Eheim canister filters.
- Added Marineland Multi-Stage series canisters.
- Added Top Fin Power series filters.
- Added Hagen Fluval Internal U series filters.
- Added Tetra Whisper internal series filters.
- Filter list has been sorted in more logical order for humans to use.
- Filtration capacities have been slightly updated on some filters as it was set a bit too harsh on some models.
- "What's this" has been added for "Generate Image" feature.
- Total number of filters in DB has been increased to 105.
- Total number of species in DB has been increased to 293.

Please check out www.aqadvisor.com if you are interested. :)
 
Well it says my cichlid tank is 88% stocked.. and I can agree with that pretty accurately acctually

nice work
 
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RDaneel said:
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Ouch. As you can see, I still need to do some work on that front. :grinyes:

Let me look into it.

EDIT: You should be able to recover your password through "I forgot my password" link on the login page...
 
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Well this was fun to play with :)

I put in my my stocking for my 55 gallon once all my fish are grown. Right now they are babies and I have way more. The calculator said I was 152% stocked! Now I keep mbuna and they need to be over stocked to control aggression. The program also suggested a second filter but I just don't think it's needed. I'm running a eheim 2028 and doing weekly 75% water changes.

the stocking I entered was:
5 Ps Acei
5 Red zebras (they are actually OBs but the same thing really)
5 Cyno. afr (though they are actually white top haras but I think most afras are around the same size.
1 demasoni (you can keep just one)
4 syno. Petricola

Now if I played with it for a bit I found if I reduced the numbers to 5 acei and 5 red zebras then the tank was stocked. If only 10 mbuna were in a 55 gallon they would kill each other. Perhaps overstocking in some situations can be taken into account?

So then I put in for my 5 gallon which houses:
Cherry shrimp
Mystery snail
and various "pest Snails"

For the mystery snail it said that mystery snails need a taller tank?
I also played around with adding nano fish to my small tank. I liked where it picked up on having too many bottom dwellers. It also told me that guppies, and badis badis would be too large for my tank. Otherwise it was spot on. It said I was overstocked but at the same time told me I had plenty of filtration.
 
blue2fyre said:
Well this was fun to play with :)

I put in my my stocking for my 55 gallon once all my fish are grown. Right now they are babies and I have way more. The calculator said I was 152% stocked! Now I keep mbuna and they need to be over stocked to control aggression. The program also suggested a second filter but I just don't think it's needed. I'm running a eheim 2028 and doing weekly 75% water changes.

the stocking I entered was:
5 Ps Acei
5 Red zebras (they are actually OBs but the same thing really)
5 Cyno. afr (though they are actually white top haras but I think most afras are around the same size.
1 demasoni (you can keep just one)
4 syno. Petricola
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Must be your overall stocking level and lead the program to suggest more filtration. That filter can easily handle your tank size, but you are right, mbuna by design need to be overstocked. I have one too, that is sitting at 140% and it works fine for me.

Now if I played with it for a bit I found if I reduced the numbers to 5 acei and 5 red zebras then the tank was stocked. If only 10 mbuna were in a 55 gallon they would kill each other. Perhaps overstocking in some situations can be taken into account?
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This may be the key thing. May be the program needs to recognize that this is a mbuna tank and let it stock higher than usual. Of course the usual filtration rule should still apply based on the actual load. Even just a simple message saying overstocking in this case is "ok".


So then I put in for my 5 gallon which houses:
Cherry shrimp
Mystery snail
and various "pest Snails"

For the mystery snail it said that mystery snails need a taller tank?
I also played around with adding nano fish to my small tank. I liked where it picked up on having too many bottom dwellers. It also told me that guppies, and badis badis would be too large for my tank. Otherwise it was spot on. It said I was overstocked but at the same time told me I had plenty of filtration.
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Mystery snail message is probably an error in DB. I'll fix it.

I would think guppy and badis would be a bit too big for that sized tank?
 
1) Curious about how you came up for the filter ratings. For example: AC 20's are marketed as 5-20 gallons, and while we know this is sometimes exaggerated, how did you get 10 gallons?

2) In terms of filtration and other factors, where do plants come in? Might be something to look into as well.

3) Randomly I added CPD's to my stock and they were not temp compatible?
 
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