Hello! I was reading this post and thought you might be interested in a little application I've been working on - see below for a brief overview
but remember this is just the beginning, many more features are on the way. Tank Tracker can be accessed off the
North East Coral home page by the top menu.
You will have to sign up, or sign in if you already have an account
Once signed in, pick an existing tank, or create as many tanks as you want to track parameters for!
Once you have your tank selected, enter parameters and a graph will be generated for you automatically. You can find trends in your tank. In the near future you'll be able to post your results to your chronicle with one click!
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Originally Posted by dhboyd1  I know this may sound complex but here is what I did for my tank and my test kit. First I bought RO/DI mixed salt water and fresh water from a reputable LFS and had them run all the test on the water. When I got home I built an excel spreadsheet to track the date, type of water and all the test results on the water. I entered everything from the LFS then took my test kit and ran the same test. I entered this on my spreadsheet. Then I took tap water and ran the same test on it. These are my baselines. I knew how my test kit compared to my LFS plus what my own tap water looked like. Now when I test I can compare to my baselines. So who's test do I trust most? In my case, I trust my LFS test because they have earned my trust and they are real respected in my community and their test were withing an acceptable margin of error from my own test. Now whenever I get a new test kit I go through this process all over again. By recording all of this in excel I can now plot trends in my tank and try to figure out in advance what is going to happen down the road.
Doing it the hard way, I know, but that's just me. |