Does anyone keep track of their corals in a file?

[chrisaggie]

Well, the last few months the focus of my tank has shifted from trying to find new corals to being happy with what I have and how to make my tank grow faster. I am right around 100 species of corals in my tank and thought it would be a good idea to document the corals in a spreadsheet to keep track of what I have and how it has done. Anyone already do this? Have any advice for me?

 

[saltwaterfishlover]

I used to do a complete log when I had my 120 in Rochester NY
When ever I got something I would find a description and picture online and print it out put the day I got it and any info I felt needed. did this for fish and coral if it died I put RIP and date and anything that might have helped for info.
a log of additives, water changes, any thing that happened in the tanks life...

 

[Rogger Castells]

Chris, I track corals, fishes and parameters and every so often I do an inventory!
I will show you next time you come over

 

[chrisaggie]

Cool, I currently have a log book with parameters, maintenance, and so on, but though it would be fun to do it electronically with corals to make it easier to keep track of things like origin, disease, bleaching, dated pictures, and such.

 

[Rogger Castells]

That is what I have, it is a program

 

[chrisaggie]

what program is it?

 

[Malice229]

I have kept a notebook with all my fish and corals in it! I even keep track when someone is gone I just put RIP next to their name.

 

[chrisaggie]

for those of you that do keep track, how many coral species do you have?

 

[Rogger Castells]

The name of the program is Maqurium, this is the link, I am not sure if they make a windoze version.
here is the link of the software

http://www.everydaysoftware.net/maquarium/

 

[Alicate]

What it will be a good idea is that the club will ofert that service to the members even whit a fee.
That way everybody including FMAS has a inventory and can keep trak of rare species.
I will be the first one to pay for that service.
I dont even know the name of some of the corals i have in my tank

 

[TropTrea]

I found EXCEL works just great for this. You can have multi sheets for each file. I keep on page for water paramaters, one for corals and one for fish.

Some of the other great things about it is you can plot your variences in nitrates, nitrites, phosphates etc and be able to relate them with cycling and changes in perfomance.

Also in your live stock data dase you can add pictures of your corals as you received them as well as at set time periods to compare growth.

Dennis

 

[chrisaggie]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8735007#post8735007 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TropTrea
I found EXCEL works just great for this. You can have multi sheets for each file. I keep on page for water paramaters, one for corals and one for fish.

Some of the other great things about it is you can plot your variences in nitrates, nitrites, phosphates etc and be able to relate them with cycling and changes in perfomance.

Also in your live stock data dase you can add pictures of your corals as you received them as well as at set time periods to compare growth.

Dennis

I have been leaning towards just using exel also. It's free and would work well. Can you attach a picture to an excel cell?

 

[Rogger Castells]

I am not sure if you can attached a pic to a specific cel, but you can insert a pic in a sheet and drag it and re-size it to fit the space were you want to have it.

 

[chrisaggie]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8735430#post8735430 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rogger Castells
I am not sure if you can attached a pic to a specific cel, but you can insert a pic in a sheet and drag it and re-size it to fit the space were you want to have it.

I may just make a file for each coral and link the coral name in the spreadsheet to that file. Too bad I didn't start this long ago. It would have been nice to know the date and origin of each coral with a pic.

 

[Husky_1]

Google also has spreadsheets that are free and stored online, I use this to track my parameters. There are not as many functions as excel, but enough to do what you need.

The cool thing is you can share them with your friends, and you can always access them with any internet connection and probably any OS.

 

[Abengochea]

hey chris check this out http://www.joejaworski.com/aqualog/

might work for what u want

 

[chrisaggie]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8737320#post8737320 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Abengochea
hey chris check this out http://www.joejaworski.com/aqualog/

might work for what u want

Thank you for the link. I'll check it out.

 

[Abengochea]

heres more
http://www.aquariumlab.com/
http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/maintsoftware/index.htm

 

[chrisaggie]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8737428#post8737428 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Abengochea
heres more
http://www.aquariumlab.com/
http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/maintsoftware/index.htm

Thank you, again.

 

[Abengochea]

no prob, i think thats all i could find