redlessi

A friend of mine recently created a site that can help you determine how much you can stock for your given tank. This is something he coded using spare time and it is far from complete. If you are interested, please try this out:

http://www.AqAdvisor.com

Just to give you some feeling, this program does NOT use a simple formula such as inch per gallon. It maintains a significant DB of fishes with 19 attributes per each species. Each species also features its own bioload for their given sizes hence not all fishes are handled the same. Surface area of the water is more important than the total volume of the tank.

Thanks!

iloveengl

I was excited for this tool, but...according to your friend's site, my 12 gallon bowfront is too small for 1 golden mystery snail. Ummm, no. I think there may still be some kinks to work out. It would be really cool to see it once it was de-bugged. Maybe it would help if we new the parameters he was using?

I do hope he gets it worked out. This will be really useful site to have on hand, especially for beginners. Great idea and I hope your friend keeps working on it!

redlessi

Did you put in your tanks measurements at the top? Try it without entering the snail and see what happens. I know he is still working out the kinks and is currently updating it weekly.

iloveengl

Yep, I put in bowfront, 14, 10, 21 EDIT: 21, 10, 14. Nevermind.

angelfish220

check the program for bettas as well.... I wish I could have 20 bettas in my 55 gallon

your tank is taller then it is wide?

iloveengl

lol. I told you user error was a distinct possibility. Now lets see what it says. (I would still think even if it was taller than wide, that I would be able to fit a snail or a single tetra in there....)

With the updated parameters (LOL) the site seems to work better. So I imagine this is better suited to long tanks than tall (even though tall tanks do limit you generally)? I'm still not allowed to have a snail, though. Is my snail unhappy?

*maybe have him check the cichlid program too.
*and it says I can only have 4 sailfin mollies in a 55 gallon long tank.

I don't want your friend to feel dissuaded, though!! This is a SUPER COOL device. I think it's really cool that he can design such a thing. I can't imagine all that went into it. boggles the mind...

Borisbbadd

That would be so cool..........

small_fry

i worked out my kribensis community on there its really cool!! now i think he should make one that tells me what fish are well suited as companions to others...no?? lol

iloveengl

Hahahha! I was thinking the same thing! hehehehe glad you said it first

redlessi

He is working on compatability as the data base has the attributes but the program doesn't use them yet. It should detect if fishes are too large for the given tank size for now.

ray_sj

It seemed to work as expected when I entered the details for my two tanks with neons, guppies, and my planned additions of ottos and a DG. It's a neat tool, and I hope the kinks can be worked out!

sirdarksol

It's a decent tool, but it still does not compare to doing personal research. It doesn't give any flags for incompatible fish (it allowed me to stock a fictional 70g tank with gold barbs, a betta, neon tetras, and butterfly fish, none of which would get along with each other), and I disagree a bit with some of the stocking percentages.

redlessi

NOTHING!!!, absolutely nothing replaces personal research. It is a cool tool to accompany your research.

ATKINSON

Awesome tool!!

redlessi

I think so along with good judgement and some research....................

ApolloX54

Yeah... I like my research... but apparently my tank is 818% stocked.... if I add 221 julii cories.... who knew?

Tony G.

it says my tank 103% overstocked! lol
apperantly my bruce is too big!

10gallonmadness

That's a cool tool.