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Aquarium Software

Welcome to Sea and Sky's Aquarium Software page. This section contains a listing of some of the best computer software available for the home aquarium hobby. The listing contains free software, shareware, and commercial software. Each entry has information about the program and a link to the site where if may be downloaded or purchased. If you know of any software not included on this page, please contact us by email and we will consider adding it to the list.


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Aquarium Unit Conversion Utility
Platform: Windows 3.x and above     Cost: Free     Demo: N/A
This application is a small (about 65kb) application that can be used to convert among different units of weight or volume. It was designed for my own use with my aquaria since every time I needed to add something to one of them the instructions read something like "Add 5ml for every 10 liters of water" or "Add in a ratio of 1 to 10000". All I wanted to know was How much do I ADD??? This little app will tell you.
eFishTank.com
Platform: Internet     Cost: Free     Demo: N/A
Excellent online site that features calculators and converters for tank volume, salinity, hardness, units, and nitrogen levels. This site also allows you to maintain an online account where you can keep track of tank chemistry, tank inventory, tank history, & water recipes. You can even get email reminders sent free.
Fish Tank Data Manager
Platform: Windows 3.x and above        Cost: Free     Demo: N/A
This is a Windows 95 / Windows NT 4 application that allows you to keep track of water chemistry and maintenance items for your fish tanks. Data is saved in disk files, and each file can have as many pages for water chemistry and maintenance items as desired. You can keep information for different tanks in different files, or assign different pages in the same file, the choice is yours. A "Maintenance Alert" page allows you to schedule items and have an alert dialog tell you what is due or past due.
Fish Tank Information Application
Platform: Windows 3.x and above     Cost: Free     Demo: N/A
This is a Windows 95 / Windows NT 4 application that allows you to see what would be required for different sizes of fish tanks. Based on "Accepted" criteria, it will give the amount of filtration, heat, gravel, weight, water change volume, and the maximum number of fish that can safely be kept in the tank. "Standard" tank sizes can be quickly selected from a drop-down list and custom sizes entered manually. The data that you enter can be saved to disk so when you add or remove fish your data file can be quickly updated.
ReefCon LT
Platform: Windows 95 and above    Cost:  Free     Demo:  N
ReefCon LT is one of the most full featured, comprehensive freeware aquarium software programs available. ReefCon LT was born from the requests of the masses to provide a stable, feature rich software package to track and maintain multiple aquariums of every size and type. ReefCon is designed to be easy to use whether you have 50 tanks or 1 tank.

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AquaScape Aquarium Simulator
Platform: Windows 3.x and above   Cost: $19.95    Demo: Free trial available
Experience all the sights and sounds of a real aquarium right from your desktop. AquaScape is a fully featured Windows 95 screensaver package that brings the joys and enchantments of an aquarium right to your desktop. It is very easy to setup and you can start enjoying it immediately.  If you're interested, you'll find there's much more to AquaScape than meets the eye.You can customize nearly everything if you wish to do so. A free trial version of the program may be downloaded free of charge.
Fishtank 2.0 Aquarium Calculator
Platform: Windows 95 and above      Cost: $15.00     Demo: Free trial available
Fishtank is an easy-to-use shareware application that allows you to perform some "what-if" calculations about an aquarium. It is most useful when planning a new tank, but provides useful calculations for existing tanks too.The information is entered in with an easy-to-use interface.The reports that are generated include tank volume, water weight, substrate, weight, heating or cooling required, and total length of fish that can be kept in the tank.The program also provides some "tips" on keeping fish. A trial version of the program may be downloaded free of charge.
Tankminder 98
Platform: Windows 95 and above     Cost: $45.00     Demo: Free trial available
Tankminder is the only software you and your fish will ever need! And with it's wide array of features, we'd like to think you won't want anything else! Tankminder keeps track of a wide variety of information including livestock logging, maintenance logging, tank setup, water quality graphing, maintenance scheduling, livestock compatibility, and disease diagnosis. This is truly the fishkeeper's best friend. A trial version of the program may be downloaded free of charge.

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AquarioGuest
Platform: Windows 98 and above     Cost: $47.00     Demo: Free Demo available
Keeping one or several freshwater aquariums, with fish and plants, can become a challenge when it's time to maintain and to establish a good balance for the livestock. AquarioGest software has been created to help the fishkeepers, who keep one or several freshwater aquariums, to manage the contents and to work out the maintenance tasks of them.
The Aquarium Consultant 2.0
Platform: Windows 95 and above     Cost: $29.95     Demo: Not available
With the aquarium consultant, you can quickly and easily access information from a huge fish, plant, disease, and breeding databases. You can also add your own information, or change something already there. Features include a marine photo gallery, an interactive range map, a metric conversion program, and more! Write notes in a Memo Pad for future use. Includes an easy-to-use aquarium care and clean-up database.
Aquarium Fish 2.0
Platform: Windows 3.x and above     Cost: $49.95     Demo: Not available
Aquarium Fish 2.0 for Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows 98 is an exciting electronic reference for aquarists of all experience levels. Six informative chapters take you through every step of setting up and maintaining your aquarium. You also get a fistful of handy software utilities for automating your record-keeping and tank maintenance tasks. Last but not least, you get a beautiful, full-color database of fish photos to help you identify unfamiliar fish.
Aquarium Professor
Platform: Windows 95 and above     Cost: $39.95     Demo: Demo Version Available
Aquarium Professor is a product designed by professional programmers and tropical fish hobbyists to aid the beginning and experienced freshwater enthusiast. Aquarium professor's features include fish information, plant information, disease diagnosis, a virtual tank compatibility simulator, aquarium maintenance scheduler and reminders, a tank logging facility, tools, a professionally bound color manual, a powerful search engine to allow you to search for fish or plants based on a combination of factors and attributes, and over 100 color photographs of tropical freshwater fish.
Aquarix
Platform: Windows 95 and above     Cost: $30.00     Demo: Free trial available
Aquarix is a software program developed for Aquarium maintenance. It is one of the most complete aquarium maintenance software which helps keeping track of your data. You can manage almost all data for your tank(s), your schedules, costs, water usage, events and many more.
Fishbase
Platform: Windows 95 and above      Cost: $95.00     Demo: Demo available
FishBase is a relational database with fish information to cater to different professionals such as research scientists, fisheries managers, zoologists and many more. FishBase was developed at the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and many other partners, and with support from the European Commission (EC).
Marine Fish & Mini-Reef Interactive Support Program
Platform: Windows 95 and above    Cost: $39.95     Demo: Trial Download Available
The Marine Fish & Mini-reef Interactive Support Program is a full-featured marine and reef aquarium maintenance program. Features of this software include 1000+ authoritative & detailed topics, 400 color pictures & videos, tank maintenance with reminder scheduler, logs to track fish and invertebrates, fish disease analyzer, marine calculator, on-line help support, and much more! Suitable for hobbyists of all ages and experience levels. For Windows 95/98/NT
 
ReefConPro
Platform: Windows 95 and above    Cost: $19.95     Demo: Freeware Version Available
ReefCon Pro is the next step in Aquarium Maintenance and Reference software. It allows you completely track all aspects of an unlimited number of tanks. ReefCon Pro uses a single window interface designed to make managing multiple tanks as easy as possible. From tank health to water quality to livestock changes you can see exactly what is happening in your tanks. Full reporting and charting allows you to monitor trends in your tanks and solve problems before they get out of hand.

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