Is your tank overstocked, are you setting up a tank, check this out everybody!

[yhbae01]

Your aquarium filtration capacity for above selected species is 131594%.
Recommended water change schedule: 5% per week.
Your aquarium stocking level is 81%

Stats of my 2.5g amano shrimp tank with two FX5s

I hope that is your hypothetical tank... lol.

 

[TTTT]

well, for now. Along with the 2 FX5s I'll be installing a 180g sump.

:j/k:

 

[DMD123]

I entered in my info for my new tank i am setting up and it told me my fish would outgrow it.

It had plenty of filtration so that was no problem. But I really did not think a Midas as a single occupant would "outgrow" his future 120g home (60x18x26). I thought he would be comfortable.

When I added my pleco and some silver dollars (x5) to the tank specs; the filtration came into question. Especially when the pleco was added.

I know this new tank is not that big, but it should be comfortable for my fish.

 

[CTU2fan]

Warning: Your selected species will eventually require 206% of your aquarium space. You may need to deal with territorial aggressions later on. Try removing some of (Heros severus, Mesonauta festivus, Geophagus jurupari, Rocio octofasciatum) or get a larger aquarium tank.

Recommended temperature range: 24 - 26 C. [SIZE=-1][Display in Farenheit][/SIZE]
Recommended pH range: 6.3 - 7.
Recommended hardness range: 5 - 10 dH.

You have plenty of aquarium filtration capacity.

Your aquarium filtration capacity for above selected species is 362%.
Recommended water change schedule: 17% per week.

Just to give you a better idea on how AqAdvisor.com works. Initially, a species (requested from a user) gets added to DB but based on my own research on the profile sites and forums. Often, this is not 100% accurate. Even profile sites are not consistent. Once added, users can try out their own species and they will let me know if it is in line with their expectations or not. If not, I fine tune attributes for the particular species until the result looks right. Once tuned, next user who selects the same species will benefit from this result.

The key thing here is the feedback from experienced users. I am NOT familiar with large new world cichlids and never kept them during the 7 years of my hobby. Once the problem is identified, DB is designed flexible enough that I can fix individual species bioloads and compatibility issues.

I'd appreciate to those who can provide some feedback, both +ve and -ve ones.

Thanks!

I really like this calculator. Some things you could add, an option for general sump/wet dry filter, maybe let people input the sump size and flow rate. Media options as mentioned above would be nice but I think it would be difficult. Also I'd like to see chalceus and cigal shark (Leptobarbus hoevenii) added, but adding fish I'm sure is more a matter of time than anything else.

You could market this thing, pitch the idea to the bigwigs at the chain shops, they could have little kiosks in the stores where people could input their tanks and stocking...certainly more helpful than the little species cards they have like Pacu: tank size, 55G etc.

 

[TheCanuck]

i cant get it to work!!
somone punch my info for me!

55 gallon , ac110 , magnum 350 , the powerhead with bio chamber connected i dont know what its called.... stock is srt and FH.....

O and for the sump and wetdrys , you should do bio area in measurement... so that people can just say they have a sump take a ruler and measure their total bio space that is in their sump.... that would make it so even DIY sumps could be compatible to this cool little system

 

[brianhellno]

Well, no one has requested Piranha but someone did request for Pacu so she made it to the list first. Every species on this app has been added through request from users.

I need to read up a bit on piranhas though, I don't know much about them.

Another vote for piranhas. Preferably Pygocentrus Nattereri.

 

[CTU2fan]

i cant get it to work!!
somone punch my info for me!

55 gallon , ac110 , magnum 350 , the powerhead with bio chamber connected i dont know what its called.... stock is srt and FH.....

O and for the sump and wetdrys , you should do bio area in measurement... so that people can just say they have a sump take a ruler and measure their total bio space that is in their sump.... that would make it so even DIY sumps could be compatible to this cool little system

SRT wasn't a choice so I just used regular tex...

Warning: Your selected species will eventually require 140% of your aquarium space. You may need to deal with territorial aggressions later on. Try removing some of (Flowerhorn, Herichthys cyanoguttatus) or get a larger aquarium tank.

Recommended temperature range: 27 - 30 C. [SIZE=-1][Display in Farenheit][/SIZE]
Recommended pH range: 7 - 7.8.
Recommended hardness range: 8 - 15 dH.

You have plenty of aquarium filtration capacity.

Your aquarium filtration capacity for above selected species is 224%.
Recommended water change schedule: 33% per week.

 

[CTU2fan]

Another vote for piranhas. Preferably Pygocentrus Nattereri.

Yeah, I would probably start with RBP and then stuff like rhomb etc. later...RBP are probably the most commonly kept I'd guess.

 

[jclyde13]

Good? Bad? Ugly?

The only problem I had with it was that tire track eel wasn't in the species list, so I had to click fire eel instead.
EDIT: Oh, never mind. It's listed, just misspelled... should be tIre track eel, not tYre track eel.

 

[gspille]

Heres a bit of feedback.

Larger tank sizes need added.


Thats all I can think of for now.

Just type in your tank by the dimensions l/w/h. It will calculate larger size tanks that way.