Saltwater version of AqAdvisor - stocking calculator

[yhbae]

What's new for 2010 05 04 build:

- Added Falco Hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys falco).
- Added Red Spotted Hawkfish (Amblycirrhitus pinos).
- Added Spotted Hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys aprinus).
- Added Caribbean Hawkfish as an alias to Red Spotted Hawkfish.
- Added Threadfin Hawkfish as an alias to Spotted Hawkfish.
- Added Tail Spot Blenny (Ecsenius stigmatura).
- Added Longfin Fairy/Blue and Red Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubriventralis).
- Added Striped/Sankeys Dottyback (Pseudochromis sankeyi).
- Added Kauderns/Bangaii/Longfin Cardinal (Pterapogon kauderni).
- Added Bamboo/Cat Shark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum).
- Added Black Banded Shark (Chiloscyllium punctatum).
- Minimum tank size requirement for Green Mandarin has been increased to 48x18.
- Green Mandarin has been re-classified as a Gragonet. Compatibility warnings are changed appropriately as well.

- Bug fixed: Temperature switch link near the bottom of the page was directing saltwater page to freshwater page. This has been fixed.

- Total number of species in DB has been increased to 62.

To access the application, please click on AqAdvisor site.

If you have any saltwater species that are missing in AqAdvisor DB, please let me know!!! If you disagree with any of the results produced by AqAdvisor, please let me know that too.

 

[yhbae]

What's new for 2010 05 04 build:

- Added Bicolor Angelfish (Centropyge bicolor).
- Added Lemonpeel Angelfish (Centropyge flavissima).
- Added Red Stripe Angelfish (Centropyge eibli).
- Added Tibicen Angelfish (Centropyge tibicin).
- Added Multibar Angelfish (Paracentropyge multifasciata).
- Added Half Black Angelfish (Centropyge vroliki).
- Added Singapore Angelfish (Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus).
- Added Yellow Angelfish (Centropyge heraldi).
- Added Rusty Angelfish (Centropyge ferrugata).
- Added Pygmy Yellowtail Angelfish (Centropyge flavicauda).
- Added Flameback/African Pygmy/Orangeback Angelfish (Centropyge acanthops).
- Added Multicolor/Pastel Pygmy Angelfish (Centropyge multicolor).
- Added Black Nox/Midnight Angelfish (Centropyge nox).
- Minimum tank size requirement for Six Line Wrasse has been reduced to 24x12.
- Mouth size of Yellow Tang has been adjusted down. It will not report a warning that it could consume small live species in the same tank.
- Mouth size of Blue Tang has been adjusted down. It will not report a warning that it could consume small live species in the same tank.
- Mouth size of Achilles Tang has been adjusted down. It will not report a warning that it could consume small live species in the same tank.
- When more than one types of tang are present, a warning with a caution is displayed rather than a strong incompatible message.
- Achilles Tang has been marked as a difficult species to maintain.
- Message for Blue Tans about requiring algae has been removed.
- Minimum tank size requirement for sharks have increased significantly.

- Total number of species in DB has been increased to 80.

To access the application, please click on AqAdvisor site.

If you have any saltwater species that are missing in AqAdvisor DB, please let me know!!! If you disagree with any of the results produced by AqAdvisor, please let me know that too.

 

[lanimret]

What is your tank size, in dimension? Also, what would be the maximum that would be suggested as far as water changes go? Sounds like I will need to keep a maximum number here with appropriate warning if the setup goes beyond that level.

48*20*24 of 100g in this case. Generally 20% every two weeks is a minimum, upto maybe 50% max. So maybe a 40%-100% per month range might be a good guideline.

Basically a lot of reverse engineering. I have many fundamentally sound general formula that I continue to tinker until it gives me the results I need. I realized long ago that a set of general formula alone will get me no where because of many exceptions so I allow those as well.

In this case for Blue Tangs, I checked couple of web sites and went by with their stocking suggestions, tuning Blue Tang attributes. So for 2 Tangs, what should be the requirement?

Maybe what you were getting at makes some sense not because of sizing issues, but because you probably wouldn't want to put two of any tang together in that size tank as they would not get along. Capacity wise, 2 would be fine. A larger tang, like a hippo, would not be appropriate to have more than 1 though, sizing wise. Two blue tang 'sized' tangs could exist in a 125g probably, but two blue tangs together probably would need a 200+.

So in the end, maybe it's just the reasoning that was confusing, the advice was actually fairly sound.


I will poke around on it some more now, and see if i can provide any more feedback.

 

[yhbae]

Thanks much for the feedback!