Aquarium Software

Do you use Aquarium software?

  • Yes, I use it all the time, but I don't do anything with the data

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Yes, I use it all the time and find it very helpful for tracking down anomalies and spotting trends

    Votes: 5 8.2%
  • Yes, but I keep forgetting to make entries

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No, I do not

    Votes: 14 23.0%
  • No, I don't because I only have 1 or 2 tanks and so it's rather pointless

    Votes: 3 4.9%
  • No, I think it's a waste of time. Period. I ain't THAT much of a geek!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No, I track everything on paper

    Votes: 4 6.6%
  • No, but I use a spreadsheet/wordprocessor

    Votes: 6 9.8%
  • There's aquarium software?

    Votes: 21 34.4%
  • People keep track of aquarium data?

    Votes: 5 8.2%
  • Other (please post)

    Votes: 3 4.9%

  • Total voters
    61
Well, I put "OTHER" because I don't track my data....but it's not because I don't know about the software that can help...or that folks don't do that. I know about tracking data, I just don't do it...lol....It takes me awhile just to keep on top of maintenance on my tanks....I don't have time to sit down and write out data....lol....

But......if someone can tell me where to get some of that software...I may like to give it a shot using it.....
 
I use Aquarix 4, but there are other types out there. This one is Euro, so they do things funny sometimes :)

You can get a 30 day demo here:

http://www.aquarix.com/en/default.asp

It's 25 Euro (29.31 USD, 34.27 CDN) for the full and 9.99 Euro (11.71 USD, 13.69 CDN) for the light. Dunno what the difference is between the two.

Aquarix is actually pretty darn good. Does CO2 Calcs, CO2 bubble calcs, costs, expenses, income (in case you sell some of your fish), watermixing, bunch of marine stuff that I have no idea about, and it will display graphs and tables and reports and stuff. Schedules your maintenance and water changes, breeding, disease, blah blah. It's pretty configurable.

Three things that need to be changed for them to hit the US market better:
1. min tank size for fish. They use min tank length.
2. difficulty level of the fish is based on care and not breeding. We pretty much use breeding over here.
3. best watervalues for fish, they use GH but we use KH

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

I've seen a few others (now that I already paid for this one, figures!) and haven't tried them. I think I will though. If I see any I'll post the links here for anyone who wants to try them out.

Roan
 
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Emg said:
it's not because I don't know about the software that can help...or that folks don't do that. I know about tracking data, I just don't do it...lol....It takes me awhile just to keep on top of maintenance on my tanks....I don't have time to sit down and write out data....lol....


Same
 
Out of curiosity, does everyone use Aquarix or is there other software? I'll have to check on Aquarix and see how it is. :cool:
 
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