Aquarium ecosystem intelligence
Track every system you keep — reefs, planted tanks, breeding setups, quarantine, research rigs. Parameter stability, organism provenance, equipment, and the full ecosystem timeline.
One profile per system. Manage as many systems as you run.
Plan your next tank before you buy a single thing.
The Tank Planner walks you through tank size, archetype, equipment, water chemistry, and stocking — then emits live compatibility verdicts backed by 6,500+ aquatic species and 60,000+ pairwise records. Plus structural weight + floor-load estimates and a personalized setup playbook.
- Live size / chemistry / pairwise / equipment / bioload / lighting / structural verdicts
- Substrate-aware — pH/KH/density effects factored in
- Personalized 7-phase setup guide (hardware → cycling → stocking → maintenance)
- No login needed to try. Sign in only to save your plan.
Every verdict carries the underlying source citation when available.
Choose your system type
Tank archetype shapes the dashboard, target ranges, alert thresholds, and the workflows you'll use day-to-day. You can mix and match archetypes — keep a reef and a quarantine tank under one account.
Freshwater
community · cichlid · goldfish · blackwater · nano · shrimp · species-only · breeding
From cycling a community tank to dialing in a blackwater Apistogramma biotope. Targets calibrated to your stocking and water source.
Saltwater & Reef
mixed · SPS · LPS · soft · FOWLR · frag · nano · automated
Reef chemistry the way reefers think about it: alkalinity, calcium, magnesium, phosphate, and consumption tracking. Coral provenance + frag lineage built in.
Planted
low-tech · high-tech CO₂ · Dutch · Iwagumi · Walstad · shrimp-planted
CO₂ schedules, ferts, KH/GH, PAR readings. Aquascape revisions and progression timeline so a 2-year layout has its own visual history.
Breeding & Propagation
fish breeding · coral propagation · larval · grow-out · egg · fry
Pair logs, spawn events, larval diet, grow-out cohorts, frag racks. Lineage chains across generations or vegetative propagation.
Quarantine & Hospital
observation · medication · copper · isolation · acclimation · biosecurity
Treatment timelines, copper monitoring, freshwater dips, coral dips. Biosecurity workflow so QT intake and DT release are auditable.
Research & Professional
marine biology · public aquaria · aquaculture · telemetry · longitudinal
Specimen-grade records, sensor ingestion (controllers + probes), longitudinal environmental tracking. Multi-tenant with role-scoped access.
What every system gets
Husbandry primitives that work whether you keep one tank or twenty. Per-system dashboards roll up into a multi-system view at the account level.
System profiles
A first-class record per ecosystem. Display volume, sump volume, substrate, lighting, flow profile, established date, maturity stage. Every system you run gets its own page.
Water chemistry catalog
Canonical parameters with cited target ranges per archetype. Unit conversion (ppm ↔ mg/L, °C ↔ °F, dKH ↔ meq/L). No JSON blobs — every reading is queryable, trendable, alert-able.
Organisms & lineage
Individuals, colonies, frags, plants, macroalgae, cleanup-crew lots, breeding pairs. Coral lineage chains. Multi-source species identity assertions with confidence + authority chain.
Equipment ledger
Lights, skimmers, return pumps, wavemakers, controllers, probes, dosers, ATO, RO/DI, reactors, UV. Brand, model, install date, firmware, maintenance interval, encrypted serials.
Aquascape progression
Aquascape journals with before/after snapshots. Coral growth photos. Frag placement maps and revisions. Tank maturity timeline you can scroll back through.
Stability over time
Trends matter more than single readings. Multi-parameter overlays. Anomaly flags when chemistry swings outside your archetype's acceptable band.
Parameter stability over time
A single reading tells you almost nothing. The trend tells you everything. urAquarium emphasizes drift, swing, and consumption — the language reefers and aquaculturists actually use.
Mobile quick-log: tap each parameter, enter the reading, save the whole test in one batch. All readings share a timestamp so you can compare a single test across every parameter you measured.
Below: reef-keeping consensus targets (cited per row in the measurement catalog). Freshwater, brackish, planted, and biotope archetypes carry their own ranges.
Cycling, the right way
Every new system starts in cycling. urAquarium teaches the nitrogen cycle through your own data — ammonia → nitrite → nitrate as your bacterial colonies establish.
The dashboard shows where your system is in the cycle, what to expect next, and when it's safe to add livestock. Reef maturation, live-rock cycling, and fishless cycling each have their own playbook.
- 1Ammonia spikeSource introduces NH₃; the system hasn't built nitrifiers yet.
- 2Nitrite riseNitrosomonas establishes; ammonia drops; nitrite climbs (still toxic).
- 3Nitrate accumulationNitrobacter establishes; nitrite drops; nitrate accumulates (manageable).
- 4CycledNH₃ + NO₂⁻ both at zero, NO₃⁻ steady. Safe to begin stocking.
Disease, treatment, and biosecurity
Quarantine isn't an afterthought — it's a system type. urAquarium treats hospital and QT tanks as first-class, with treatment timelines that don't bleed into your display tank's chemistry log.
QT intake
Acclimation log, freshwater dips, coral dips, observation period.
Treatment log
Medication name, dose, duration, water changes, response notes.
Copper monitoring
Ionic vs chelated, Cu²⁺ readings, treatment window, stripping copper.
DT release
Biosecurity sign-off, completion criteria, transfer event in timeline.
Built for every level
One platform from first cycle to public aquarium. The depth shows up when you ask for it; the basics never get harder than they need to be.
First system, first cycle
Cycle education, ammonia/nitrite/nitrate logging, stocking compatibility, target ranges. Cycle-stage indicator on the dashboard.
Multi-system stability
Trend graphs, consumption tracking, dosing schedules, equipment maintenance, aquascape revisions, frag/coral lineage. Public-or-private build journal.
Telemetry-grade records
Controller + probe ingestion, longitudinal environmental records, specimen-grade provenance, role-scoped multi-user access for facilities.
Gear, frags, and provenance
Buyers care about where livestock came from. Sellers care about honest descriptions and a clean chain of custody. urAquarium gives both.
Used gear from your inventory
Mark equipment "for sale" or "for trade" from any system's gear list. The marketplace listing inherits brand, model, photos, install date, and your purchase notes — no re-typing.
Powered by the urSynergy goods/services marketplace. Stripe Connect required for paid listings.
Frag, coral, plant trading with provenance
Frag a colony, log the lineage, list the new frag. Buyer gets the full provenance chain — colony origin, fragger, vendor, prior assertions. Macroalgae and freshwater plants ride the same track.
Animal placement workflows stay separate. Live-stock trades carry care acknowledgments.
Add as many systems as you keep
Free to start. Public-or-private per system — each archetype gets its own dashboard, ranges, and workflows. Run a reef, a planted tank, and a quarantine rig under one account.