Any body out there using any programs or software to maintain their tanks? If so, can you share?
Thank you
If you google around you’ll find 20 or more. What specifically are you looking for feature/function wise.
This will give you a good starting place to look:
http://www.aquaristsonline.com/blog/general/aquarium-software-to-assist-you-with-your-aquarium-maintenance
Thanks Jon. Are you using any of these? I’m just looking for something to help me monitor/reminder my water parameter and of course logs and diaries of animals in the tank.
Never used them. I just looked at them as I have a client who was working on building something similar that also interfaces with his controller and a scheduling program he uses.
For logs/diaries of animals I just use excel.
One thing I always recommend is videos and photographs. Always good to be able to look back and see changes.
And if you shoot a picture of a fish and only the tail is in focus keep it. Sure the photo won’t win any awards, but when you see a white bump near the tail of your yellow tang and can’t remember if it was there before, a quick look at that picture will tell you it was always there.
An Excel spreadsheet is probably the easiest and cheapest route to go. You can track whatever parameters you want to track, the date and time of the testing, make notes of any changes you’ve made, inlcuding new dosing schedules/products. And when you add a fish or coral, you can take a picture and link the picture right to the spreadsheet.
here is one of the better Excel logs I have seen, scoll to the bottom they have some screenshots and download
That is nice. Thanks Frank, exactly what I’m looking for.