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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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
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.
Anyone keep their reef tanks at 194F?
ProfiLux reef status HUGE thread happy reading
http://www.aquariumcomputer.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=119
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.
I just got this tool, Aquastatix, for my IPhone and looks really cool and usefull. Thanks for the recomendation.
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).
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
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!
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.
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