AqAdvisor - "Intelligent " stocking calculator

Member Posts: 38 Age: 42

Achaicus wrote:

I was the one that requested the Heterandria formosa (least killiefish). I think you have them as larger than life.

Maximum female size is 3 cm which is 1.18 in, you have them getting to 1.5 in. I have two and doubt they are max size.

Females are adult by .75 inch or so and may only get to be 1 inch and males may only be .5 inch max.

Normal livebearer trios don't really apply with this species because they are so small. It is easy to loose a male and thus a dozen or more are recommended to start a tank with them. Fry are so small that no other piscine species are recommended to keep with them.

If I recall, that one had a lot of variance on the stats between different profiles. Thanks for the feedback, I'll take those into account. Wink

In the 40 or so year I have been in the business/hobby I have come across a lot of stocking spread sheets and calculator. Most just were just to complex or just flat didn't work. I have to say the "Intelligent " stocking calculator is the best I have ever used! I have spent a lot of time trying to trip this thing up and for the most part it pass the test. This is a great novice aquarist tool if you can just get them to use it.It also makes a great tool when dealing with people who just don't believe you when you tell them it's not all right to put 2 Oscars in a 20 gallon

Rick

Member Posts: 38 Age: 42

cooltow1 wrote:

In the 40 or so year I have been in the business/hobby I have come across a lot of stocking spread sheets and calculator. Most just were just to complex or just flat didn't work. I have to say the "Intelligent " stocking calculator is the best I have ever used! I have spent a lot of time trying to trip this thing up and for the most part it pass the test. This is a great novice aquarist tool if you can just get them to use it.It also makes a great tool when dealing with people who just don't believe you when you tell them it's not all right to put 2 Oscars in a 20 gallon

Rick

Thanks.

Let me know what were those failed tests so that I can fix them as well. Smile

More feedback the better!

Member Posts: 38 Age: 42

What's new for 2010 02 28 build:

- Added Prehistoric Monster Fish (Thalassophryne amazonica).
- Added Dwarf Livebearer/Least Killifish "Male" at 0.6 inches. This species has been split into male/female due to their significant size discrepancies.
- Added Finger Fish/Mono Argentus (Monodactylus argenteus).
- Added Japen Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia japenensis).
- Added Kamaka Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia kamaka).
- Added Lake Kutubu Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia lacustris).
- Added Maylands Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia maylandi).
- Added Clown Killifish (Pseudepiplatys annulatus).
- Added Banded Leporinus (Leporinus fasciatus).
- Added Freshwater Sole (Brachirus selheimi).
- Added False Upside Down Catfish/Common Syno/Lace Catfish (Synodontis nigrita).
- Added Corydoras C079/Corydoras C082/Corydoras C083 (Corydoras loxozonus).
- Size of Dwarf Livebearer/Least Killifish "Female" has been adjusted down to 1.2 inches.
- Temperature requirement for Jaguar Cichlid has been adjusted to 25 - 28C.
- Size of Jaguar Cichlid has been increased to 14 inches.
- Temperature requirement for Bluegill Sunfish has been adjusted to 25 - 33C.
- Temperature requirement for Mayan Cichlid has been adjusted to 20 - 30C.
- Temperature requirement for German Blue Ram has been adjusted to 26 - 30C.
- Freshwater sole, previously defined as an alias to Freshwater Flounder has been replaced by Brachirus selheimi.

- Added Eheim Biofilter series filters.
- Added Aqua Nova canister filters.

- Fixed a layout bug in the copy/paste friendly mode.
- Fixed a bug: if you clear your species selection, it was also clearning filter selections. This has been fixed.

- Cleaned up scientific names on how capital/lower case letters are used.
- Generated image now handles "cm" and "L" units. Decimal places have also been trimmed.
- Advanced search has been expanded to include search using temperature ranges. If you want to search using one temperature value, use the same value for both minimum and maximum temperature range. You can mix two different search criteria together, for example - "search for species between 2 and 3 inches and suitable between 25C and 26C". Works with both "C" and "F".
- Added another "Display in C." or "Display in F." link at the top of the page.

- Total number of filters in DB has been increased to 272.
- Total number of species in DB has been increased to 795.

To access the application, please click on AqAdvisor site.

Member Posts: 38 Age: 42

What's new for 2010 03 07 build:

- Added Licorice Gourami (Parosphromenus deissneri).
- Added African Butterfly Cichlid (Anomalochromis thomasi).
- Added Asian Upside Down Catfish (Mystus leucophasis).
- Added Pterygoplichthys joselimaianus L001 L022.
- Added Misool Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia misoolensis).
- Added Mountain Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia monticola).
- Added Mubi Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia mubiensis).
- Added Black-Banded Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia nigrans).
- Added Ogilbys Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia ogilbyi).
- Added Nicaraguan Cichlid as an alias to Macaw Cichlid.
- Added Male and Female entries for Nicaraguan Cichlid due to their size discrepancies. If you know the sex, use these instead of the generic one.
- Added Banded Cichlid (Heros notatus).
- Added Redhead Severum (Heros sp. Rotkeil).
- Aggression for Honey Blue Eye has been downgraded.
- Aggression for Pacific Blue Eye has been downgraded.
- Aggression for Delicate Blue Eye has been downgraded.
- Minimum tank size for Scarlet Badis has been increased to 16x8.
- Minimum tank size for Black Phantom Tetra has been increased to 20x10.
- Minimum tank size for Black Skirt Tetra has been increased to 20x10.
- Minimum tank size for Penguin Tetra has been increased to 20x10.
- Minimum tank size for Platinum Hatchet has been increased to 20x10.
- Minimum tank size for Marble Hatchet has been increased to 20x10.
- Bioloads for all Rainbowfishes have been adjusted slightly (mostly up).
- Removed a duplicated entry for Lake Kutubu Rainbowfish. If you have this species bookmarked, you may no longer see this in your setup. Please select it again.
- Further updated attributes for Banded Leporinus, including size.
- Aggression of Royal Pleco against other species have been reduced.
- Scientific name for Severum has been updated to Heros efascticious.

- Total number of species in DB has been increased to 810.

To access the application, please click on AqAdvisor site.

If you have any species that are missing in AqAdvisor DB, please let me know!!!

Sweet, sounds like things are coming together really well and fast.

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a high powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die".

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I've been on this reptile site that has an aquarium topic on it. There is this girl on there that I think just likes to buy fish that look nice with out doing any research. She has had nothing but problems due to this. I have tried to help her, but she keeps looking for quick fixes to the problems. Today I went on to the adviser and put in all her fish that she has on to it and got strait forward warnings that I copied and pasted into my reply to her. I'm hoping it will get her to realize her mistakes and that there are no quick fixes to them. Great tool, very handy.

The only fish she had that was not on there was Electric Blue Johanni.

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Member Posts: 38 Age: 42

Mostlycichlids wrote:

Sweet, sounds like things are coming together really well and fast.

So far so good. Very Happy

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Celticwraith wrote:

I've been on this reptile site that has an aquarium topic on it. There is this girl on there that I think just likes to buy fish that look nice with out doing any research. She has had nothing but problems due to this. I have tried to help her, but she keeps looking for quick fixes to the problems. Today I went on to the adviser and put in all her fish that she has on to it and got strait forward warnings that I copied and pasted into my reply to her. I'm hoping it will get her to realize her mistakes and that there are no quick fixes to them. Great tool, very handy.

The only fish she had that was not on there was Electric Blue Johanni.

That's good to hear. I hope she changes her mind. Smile

I thought I had that species in there already, but I could be wrong. I'll add it to my wishlist and check before adding it as a new species.

Thanks. Very Happy

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What's new for 2010 03 14 build:

- Added Haplochromis sp. Ruby Green.
- Added Emerald Eye Rasbora (Rasbora dosriocellata macrophthalma).
- Added Sunset Coral Dwarf Platy(TBD).
- Added Uruguayan Eartheater (Gymnogeophagus australis).
- Added Stripefin Eartheater (Gymnogeophagus rhabdotus).
- Added Gymnogeophagus meridionalis.
- Added Rose Danio (Danio roseus).
- Added Popondetta Blue-eye (Pseudomugil connieae).
- Added Threadfin Acara (Acarichthys heckelii).
- Assigned Melanochromis johanni a common name Electric Blue Johanni.
- Minimum tank size for Blue Tetra has been increased to 20x10.
- Minimum tank size for Dwarf Rasbora has been decreased to 16x8.
- Added male/female ratio for Haplochromis sp. 44.
- Minimum tank size for Platinum Hatchet has been increased to 20x10.
- Scientific names for all Monotrete species have been replaced by Tetraodon.
- Minimum tank size for Tire Track Eel has been reduced.
- Minimum tank size for Fire Eel has been reduced.
- Aggression for Pictus Catfish has been reduced.
- Bioload for Dwarf Molly has been reduced slightly.
- Bioload for Blue Back Blue Eye has been reduced slightly.
- Bioload for Spotted Blue Eye has been reduced slightly.
- Bioloads for 2inch+ Tetras has been increased slightly.
- Added Cascade series filters as separate items. They are also found under PennPlax but many users couldn't locate them and requested for them as new filters.
- Added 220g tank dimension (72x24x30).

- Total number of tanks in DB has been increased to 71.
- Total number of filters in DB has been increased to 277.
- Total number of species in DB has been increased to 819.

To access the application, please click on AqAdvisor site.

If you have any species that are missing in AqAdvisor DB, please let me know!!!
Does anyone know the scientific name for Sunset Coral Dwarf Platy? This is apparently a dwarf varient of the common platy.

Just wondering but shouldn't you be posting what updates you have done on your own website rather than here? That way when people come to your site they know whats new. If you don't they have no clue. It does not make any sense to keep posting it here were no one can see the updates yhbae!!!

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Member Posts: 38 Age: 42

Grumpa wrote:

Just wondering but shouldn't you be posting what updates you have done on your own website rather than here? That way when people come to your site they know whats new. If you don't they have no clue. It does not make any sense to keep posting it here were no one can see the updates yhbae!!!

Actually it does that already. Very Happy

On my site when someone comes to my app page, there is a link that will lead me to my specific forum page that has this release note posted and opportunity to contribute further if they wish. I'm just looking for more opportunities to collect results that's all.

Thanks.

We are affiliated with his site as well Grumpa...so he's just keeping us up to date on whats new so we know.

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a high powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die".

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Yes i know we are affiliated i just meant the people that use his site alot would be able to find the info better there rather than here is all im not against it. I did not know it was on his site to i did not see it when i looked. I was only trying to help him MC.

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What's new for 2010 03 21 build:

- Added Needlenose Gar (Xenentodon cancila).
- Added Harlequin Shark (Labeo variegatus).
- Added Lake Mbuta Rainbowfish (Pelangia mbutaensis).
- Added Kiunga Blue Eye (Kiunga ballochi).
- Added Xenotilapia ochrogenys.
- Added Xenotilapia bathyphilus.
- Added Xenotilapia papilio.
- Oscar size has been increased to 14 inches.
- Oscar bioload factor has been increased slightly.
- Bioload for Kuhli has been increased slightly.
- Scientific name for Sunset Coral Dwarf Platy has been updated as Xiphophorus maculatus (same as the regular Platy).
- WC factor for Blue Acara has been increased.
- WC factor for Threadfin Acara has been increased.
- WC factor for Platinum Acara has been increased.
- WC factor for Port Acara has been increased.
- WC factor for Red Breasted Acara has been increased.
- WC factor for Yellow Acara has been increased.
- WC factor for Greenstreaked Eartheater has been increased.
- Scientific name for Jurupari Eartheater has been updated to Satanoperca jurupari.
- WC factor for Jurupari Eartheater has been increased.
- WC factor for Red Hump Eartheater has been increased.
- WC factor for Stripefin Eartheater has been increased.
- WC factor for The Pearl Eartheater has been increased.
- WC factor for Uruguayan Eartheater has been increased.
- Size for Wels Catfish has been reduced to 63 inches.
- Size of Celestial Pearl Danio has been reduced to 1 inch.
- Updated temperature requirement for Ornate Rainbowfish.
- Updated pH requirement for Ornate Rainbowfish.
- Mouth size of Chinese Algae Eater has been reduced.

- Added Rena Filstar iV series filters.
- Added Hagen Marina Slim series filters.

- Bug fixed: when "cm" mode is used, stock % written on the image was incorrect. This has been fixed.

- Total number of filters in DB has been increased to 284.
- Total number of species in DB has been increased to 826.

To access the application, please click on AqAdvisor site.

If you have any species that are missing in AqAdvisor DB, please let me know!!!

A lot of internal code has been changed for this release which is invisible to end-users. This was done to improve the maintainability of the source code, especially when I need to add more new features in the future. I may have unintentionally broke some of the existing features. If anyone observes such defects, please report them in the forum.