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
Roan Art said:
Does anyone here, besides me, use aquarium software to track their aquarium data and study the trends that develop?

Inquiring minds want to know :)

Roan
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I have 7 tanks running at present, 3 (a 20-Long, a 20, & a 10 gal.) plants/snails only; a 10 gal. "Hospital" tank that's serving as a hatchery/nursery for clutches of Apple Snails; a 30 gal. tank for Mollies, Neons, Corys, a Betta, and a Rainbow Shark, pond and Ramshorn snails; a 30 gal. for a pair of Angelfish and 2 Corys; and a 55 gal. Barb Community with Tigers, Checkerboard, Gold, and Rosy Barbs, a Rainbow Shark, some Kuhli Loaches, 5 Otocinclus, and a male and 2 female Apple snails.

I do weekly water tests on the fish tanks (before water changes and after, if needful), and every other week on the plants-and-pond snail tanks.

I use the aquarium software to keep track of dKH and pH, and to make sure there is no surprise build-up of nitrates or nitrites. It also lets me keep track of any dropping dKH so I can plan for timely corrections and avoid a dropped pH crisis.

In the plants-and-pond snail tanks, I can see a regular 0.5-1.5 dKH drop from one test to the next, usually correlated with the newest rootlings putting out new growth. The drop in KH reminds me to add bicarbonate along with the plant food and liquid carbon. I think I need to budget for yet another large tank so I have somewhere to put all my plants!

Ain't technology grand?!

Patricia
 
Re: Aquarix software

MidnightPyro said:
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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I use it ... the little terminology glitches don't bother me much, and I just edit their information (care, etc.) with information I can use. Their data base had no information on Betta splendens, so I created one. Same with the Tiger Barbs and a few others. I also add pictures ...

I made myself a promise that I would enter all the aquarium expenses (fish, plants, fish food, medications, plant food, equipment, etc.) ... if I ever do a summary, I know it'll be a shocker.
;)

Patricia
 
MidnightPyro said:
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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Yes, there is other software.

Please don't think I'm pushing Aquarix, I'm not. Before I bought it I only found a couple of others and they weren't that good. I see now that there are a few more out there. Some have demos and some don't.

Since I'm more edumacated with this type of software and fishies in general now, I'm going to test run a few more this weekend. I have a better grasp of what I need to see thanks to most of you here on AquariaCentral. I'll post summaries when I can.

If anyone else has had experience with certain software, please post.

One thing I DO like about this type of software is that I can pull up a graph that will display all my water parameters over a given set of time and events that I did during that time (water changes, new fish, disease, etc.,.).

Roan
 
MidnightPyro said:
For all you windows users, I surfed for a bit and I also came up with this one, which looks pretty cool too. :D Only problem is, it's $47 and you can't modify the data until you pay up.

http://www.aquariogest.net/
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Doncha hate that crap?
I've got 4 in my downloads dir thus far, but I haven't installed anything yet. I'm gonna supersurf and then try them. There definitely are not a lot of programs for this. Many are marine only (grumble). I'll keep looking.

Bah! Macphoto beat me to the Mac OS one :)

Roan
 
I just write notes on the calendar on the fridge.
 
Galaxie said:
I just write notes on the calendar on the fridge.
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ROFL! I wish I had room on a calendar for that :)

I've got a LOT of animals in this house, not to mention the husband and two kids. Since i spend most of my time on the computer, I'd rather have a popup tell me it's time to change the water in a tank or feed a snake or take a dog/cat/whatever to the vet for a checkup, or hubby has to travel or my daughter has a parent-teachers conference.

I have software for my dogs/cats, snakes, fish, kids and husband. I think I have more software than Kelloggs has Cornflakes.

Roan
 
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