AquaStatix makes your iPhone fishy

Posted on November 4th, 2009 by 29

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If you’re one of the growing number of iPhone users and looking for a robust, tank logging application for your device check out AquaStatix. The app (available for $1.99 USD from the iTunes App Store) will let you set up an unlimited number of tank journals allowing you to name and designate each one as freshwater, saltwater or reef and track 13 different water parameters. Besides the logging capabilities, the app lets you view your results on a simple graph showing your tank’s trends for the previous eight weeks. For our international friends the app also lets you chose between gallons and liters for volume and centigrade or Fahrenheit temperatures. One feature the app is lacking is the ability to export or view the information from outside the iPhone leaving the information to reside solely on your device. While this is a app geared towards both sides of hobby, some reefers have indicated the app does not let you specify certain readings like salinity beyond the tenths decimal place. So your salinity reading of 1.023 would either have to be logged as 1.0 or 1.1. Hopefully this can be addressed in more current versions before it’s a prime-time candidate for the hardcore reefer. The iPhone aquarium app community is beginning to grow and we like what we are seeing. For Neptune Apex and Digital Aquatics owners developers have created the AquaNotes and iReef apps allowing you remote control and monitoring. Seachem also recently released their free app Dose, a simple dosing calculator. While we love the creativity and beautiful apps for the iPhone, we are hoping developers also branch out into other smartphone markets with app stores from Windows Mobile, Android, Palm and Blackberry available now. More screenshots and full list of parameters covered after the break.

  • Temperature
  • Nitrites
  • Nitrates
  • Ammonia
  • pH
  • Carbonate Hardness
  • General Hardness
  • Calcium
  • Copper
  • Salinity
  • Phosphate
  • Magnesium
  • Iodine
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  • Reggie

    You can find a Windows Mobile app for the Neptune AquaControllers as well as a web based controller that should work with any mobile browser here: http://www.kenargo.com/software

  • Reggie

    You can find a Windows Mobile app for the Neptune AquaControllers as well as a web based controller that should work with any mobile browser here: http://www.kenargo.com/software

  • http://www.oceanathome.com Brian Blank

    Great stuff Reggie. Any word on if the developer is is going to explore the new Windows Phone (WinMo 6.5+)? I’ve seen some of the apps coming out on it first hand and they are starting to catch up with the sexiness of the iPhone apps.

  • http://www.oceanathome.com Brian Blank

    Great stuff Reggie. Any word on if the developer is is going to explore the new Windows Phone (WinMo 6.5+)? I’ve seen some of the apps coming out on it first hand and they are starting to catch up with the sexiness of the iPhone apps.

  • http://www.oceanathome.com Brian Blank

    Great stuff Reggie. Any word on if the developer is is going to explore the new Windows Phone (WinMo 6.5+)? I’ve seen some of the apps coming out on it first hand and they are starting to catch up with the sexiness of the iPhone apps.

  • http://coralidea.com Jake Adams

    Anyone keep their reef tanks at 194F?

  • http://coralidea.com Jake Adams

    Anyone keep their reef tanks at 194F?

  • michael

    ProfiLux reef status HUGE thread happy reading :)

    http://www.aquariumcomputer.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=119

  • michael

    ProfiLux reef status HUGE thread happy reading :)

    http://www.aquariumcomputer.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=119

  • Reggie

    np Brian. You can find kenargo (the developer) over at the RC Netune Systems forum. I would think porting it to WM 6.5 is not much of a problem, plus the web version should work on any browser.

    What’s good about the Neptune AquaControllers (3/Apex) is, it supports RSS/XML feeds which makes it easy to get information.

  • Reggie

    np Brian. You can find kenargo (the developer) over at the RC Netune Systems forum. I would think porting it to WM 6.5 is not much of a problem, plus the web version should work on any browser.

    What’s good about the Neptune AquaControllers (3/Apex) is, it supports RSS/XML feeds which makes it easy to get information.

  • Tali

    I just got this tool, Aquastatix, for my IPhone and looks really cool and usefull. Thanks for the recomendation.

  • Tali

    I just got this tool, Aquastatix, for my IPhone and looks really cool and usefull. Thanks for the recomendation.

  • http://reefbuilders.com Brian Blank

    Tali,

    How is the latest version 1.1? If you could share your experiences with what you like so far, specifically if it allows you to dial in specific gravity to the thousandths (eg 1.023).

  • http://reefbuilders.com Brian Blank

    Tali,

    How is the latest version 1.1? If you could share your experiences with what you like so far, specifically if it allows you to dial in specific gravity to the thousandths (eg 1.023).

  • http://reefbuilders.com Brian Blank

    Reggie,

    Glad someone added features for other platforms for the controllers. Now I just have to get one with web access, but right now working from home makes it pretty simple to monitor what’s going on (also can be a productivity killer).

    BB

  • http://reefbuilders.com Brian Blank

    Reggie,

    Glad someone added features for other platforms for the controllers. Now I just have to get one with web access, but right now working from home makes it pretty simple to monitor what’s going on (also can be a productivity killer).

    BB

  • http://www.aquastatix.com Alex

    Hello All I’m the developer of AquaStatix,

    Brian thank you very much for the great review I’m working hard on making AquaStatix an app that everyone can use and do take user’s opinions and suggestions to heart. As such I’m currently working on version 1.2 which will contain greater precision & the addition of a few more tests.

    Now in respects to the current tests I do wish to clarify one point that has come up a couple of times. That being the Salinity test, as I’m sure most of you know several hydrometer’s measure both Salinity & Specific Gravity. When I first designed AquaStatix I had made the choice to only pick one of the readings in order to not have redundancy. In any case the current test only has a single decimal place because the Salinity range is from 0 -40 ppt Vs. 1.000 – 1.032 for SG. In any case this seems to have caused some confusion & I will be adding SG to the next release as well.

    In summary thank you all for the support and please feel free to send me suggestions as it helps me prioritize what features are most used and thus what will go into future versions!

  • http://www.aquastatix.com Alex

    Hello All I’m the developer of AquaStatix,

    Brian thank you very much for the great review I’m working hard on making AquaStatix an app that everyone can use and do take user’s opinions and suggestions to heart. As such I’m currently working on version 1.2 which will contain greater precision & the addition of a few more tests.

    Now in respects to the current tests I do wish to clarify one point that has come up a couple of times. That being the Salinity test, as I’m sure most of you know several hydrometer’s measure both Salinity & Specific Gravity. When I first designed AquaStatix I had made the choice to only pick one of the readings in order to not have redundancy. In any case the current test only has a single decimal place because the Salinity range is from 0 -40 ppt Vs. 1.000 – 1.032 for SG. In any case this seems to have caused some confusion & I will be adding SG to the next release as well.

    In summary thank you all for the support and please feel free to send me suggestions as it helps me prioritize what features are most used and thus what will go into future versions!

  • http://reefbuilders.com Brian Blank

    Thanks for the input Alex. Without having an iPhone to put it through the paces, I had to sift through the online comments to round it out a bit. Glad you are still working on it and not just forgetting about it ;) Good luck and keep us in the loop.

  • http://reefbuilders.com Brian Blank

    Thanks for the input Alex. Without having an iPhone to put it through the paces, I had to sift through the online comments to round it out a bit. Glad you are still working on it and not just forgetting about it ;) Good luck and keep us in the loop.

  • http://www.aquastatix.com Alex

    Hello All,

    I simply wanted to let everyone know that version 1.2 of AquaStatix is now available in the app store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aquastatix-aquarium-log/id324528794?mt=8. This version has six new tests (Strontium, Silicates, Specific Gravity, Iron, ORP, & Conductivity) in addition to improvements regarding precision!

    Thanks everyone for your continued support ;-)

  • http://www.aquastatix.com Alex

    Hello All,

    I simply wanted to let everyone know that version 1.2 of AquaStatix is now available in the app store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aquastatix-aquarium-log/id324528794?mt=8. This version has six new tests (Strontium, Silicates, Specific Gravity, Iron, ORP, & Conductivity) in addition to improvements regarding precision!

    Thanks everyone for your continued support ;-)

  • Mike

    Alex – this program could be worth buying if you would fix the user interface – for an iPhone app it bites. Scrolling from zero to 400+ to record calcium is ridiculous.

    There have been numerous requests to fix this problem and a feature many would like to see – the ability to turn off those tests the users doesn’t use – like ORP or Ammonia or whatever. Each tank should be able to be configured so I can turn tests on or off. If I have a new tank I want to track the cycle tests, but afterwards – I have no need to see them.

    Also needed Magnesium test.

    Graphing – man it needs a lot of work. When charting Nitrates (mine are zero now, but were as high as 20ppm) My graph shows as a flat line at zero – why – because your graph goes from zero to144ppm – wtf?

    This app could be a great app – and I so need it to be. Please fix it and maybe find someone who does these tests on a regular basis to have them beta test the app and to give you some guidance on how to create he tool aquarium keepers really need.

  • Mike

    Alex – this program could be worth buying if you would fix the user interface – for an iPhone app it bites. Scrolling from zero to 400+ to record calcium is ridiculous.

    There have been numerous requests to fix this problem and a feature many would like to see – the ability to turn off those tests the users doesn’t use – like ORP or Ammonia or whatever. Each tank should be able to be configured so I can turn tests on or off. If I have a new tank I want to track the cycle tests, but afterwards – I have no need to see them.

    Also needed Magnesium test.

    Graphing – man it needs a lot of work. When charting Nitrates (mine are zero now, but were as high as 20ppm) My graph shows as a flat line at zero – why – because your graph goes from zero to144ppm – wtf?

    This app could be a great app – and I so need it to be. Please fix it and maybe find someone who does these tests on a regular basis to have them beta test the app and to give you some guidance on how to create he tool aquarium keepers really need.

  • Mike

    Each value should have its own wheel – so if I need to put in 425ppm – I spin the hundreds wheel to 4, the tens wheel to 2, and the ones wheel to 5 – simplle and fast.

    The ability to email the results to CSV format would be nice.

    Hints of what natural sea water is for the values would be a nice touch.

    Remebering what I entered last time so I don’t have to spin the wheels as much would be a niuce touch.

    Adding dosing would be a good additional – I run ZEOvit and have several additives – scheduling each one – getting push reminders and tracking the amouts would be a nice touch. How about how much and when to replace carbon or Phosban.

    How about those of us that are 2-part dosing. It would be nice to track how much we are dosing of Ca, ALK, and Mg – so it would be easier to come up with an automated dosing schedule.

    Add critters to your tank – where you bought it, what you bought, when you bought it, and how much you paid wold be a nice touch.

    Added new equipment? Where you bought it, what you bought, when you bought it, and how much you paid, and when do you expect it to be replaced – like lights – schedule a push notification – that would be great.

    I’m a newbie in reef keeping, but have been in IT for ever – need a hand with design and feature ideas – I’ll help.

  • Mike

    Each value should have its own wheel – so if I need to put in 425ppm – I spin the hundreds wheel to 4, the tens wheel to 2, and the ones wheel to 5 – simplle and fast.

    The ability to email the results to CSV format would be nice.

    Hints of what natural sea water is for the values would be a nice touch.

    Remebering what I entered last time so I don’t have to spin the wheels as much would be a niuce touch.

    Adding dosing would be a good additional – I run ZEOvit and have several additives – scheduling each one – getting push reminders and tracking the amouts would be a nice touch. How about how much and when to replace carbon or Phosban.

    How about those of us that are 2-part dosing. It would be nice to track how much we are dosing of Ca, ALK, and Mg – so it would be easier to come up with an automated dosing schedule.

    Add critters to your tank – where you bought it, what you bought, when you bought it, and how much you paid wold be a nice touch.

    Added new equipment? Where you bought it, what you bought, when you bought it, and how much you paid, and when do you expect it to be replaced – like lights – schedule a push notification – that would be great.

    I’m a newbie in reef keeping, but have been in IT for ever – need a hand with design and feature ideas – I’ll help.

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