What calculators would you like to see?

[JasonHornbuckle]

"Volume calculator has already been said, and I agree. But I REALLY wish we had a volume calculator that accurately took into account the thickness of the glass. That is where almost all the volume calculators out there fall short."

i've found one of these just by googling it

[Sponsors]

[spypet]

you know what might be helpful, would be an aquarium cost calculator.
say you want to make a new tank and need a dollar ballpark budget.
you'd put in the tank size, and if you desire high or low tech plants.
it would calculate the tank, substrate, lighting, filtering, Co2 needed,
and give you an approximate cost on buying a fully functional tank.
obviously it would need to make a lot of cost assumptions, but it
would be useful to give people a realistic budget before they start.
you can have an Annual cost for food, ferts, Co2, bulbs & electric,
you can even include an average for fish, plants, wood, rock costs.

[marshaltito]

I saw an earlier post in this thread about volume for substrates, and figured I'd help out since I just bought some Flourite Red.

It says that: "each bag occupies a colume of approximately 7,000 cm^3 (425 cu. in.). This bag is sufficient for about a 5 cm (2 inch) deep bed in a typical 40 L (10 gallon) tank." That quote is from the standard size 7kg (15.4lbs) bag.

Thought that might help a tidge

[Glouglou]

In my dreams I see a special Chuck fertilizer calculator

Original at:

http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_p...osage_calc.htm

The difference will be:
1— Being able to choose between mix in water solution or add dry directly to the tank (by volume)

2— the possibility to change the pourcentage of all basics elements.

Ex: Chuck MgSO4 =
Magnesium = 9.9%
SO4 - Sulfate 39.0%
Other - water 51.1%

The MgSO4 I have available is:
Mg = 16%
SO4 = 32%

I have to tweak is code to make it work for me. But I’m sure a good java geek can let us input these values to match the product people have available.

3— add the same for all micronutrients and all other nutrients not include in Chuck calculator that are needed by plants, that will be ultimate

I Have a dream!

[iceterran]

How about a calculator that converts: " Drops -> ML " This might be simple, but I'm not a math guy and remember it taking over an hour for me to figure it out one time.

[TubaTime1010]

I take it that the calcs were never really coded, seeing as how it's been 2 years and there's still only two...lol

[Carpet-Pond]

I like Spypet's idea for calculating a figure on how much you will spend setting up a new tank. It gets really easy to get carried away in this hobby.

The most important calculation for me, though, would be one that was mentioned earlier about calculating how much c02 vs lighting and ferts and tank size would be ideal. I guess that would have too many variables such as plant types etc. But it sure would be a nice one to have if it were possible.