You would have an option to sign up as a resource via whatever forum/s you use, and if someone was having trouble with something specific that you have selected as a point of expertise, it would direct them straight to you.
There could even be a feature that identifies things in your aquarium, such as fish species, plants, types of algae, or diseases, and then refers you to a guide on that thing.Īnd finally, it would have an information section that compiles the most relevant and useful/knowledgeable sources on the internet into a single search function. Part of this would include an inbuilt aquabid type feature where you can organise easy sales to hobbyists, but without having to handle a confusing website.
And it would also have a free breeder function, where you can put up your fish or other aquatic animals that you breed or plan to breed, as well as amounts and prices, and it will send out automatic messages to all the fish stores in your area. It would be connected to all of your automatic wi-fi systems, so you can control it all from one place.Īdditionally, it would have social media access, so you would receive only aquatic based social media notifications, whether from YT, Instagram, Facebook, or anything else.
It would have reminders to do water changes and algae cleans, and punish you if you didn’t do them by restricting your forum access. It would have an easy system to store all your water test and change data, with trend lines and everything, and contain a handy note-taking system. It would have a camera incorporated into it so you can automatically keep all your fish footage in one place. It would have the feed from your 4K mini fish submarine. It would have forums incorporated into it and would show you notifications for your forums, as well as suggesting topics you may like. I don’t know which features I would consider bonuses though, because I want it all!Įssentially, it would be an app/website that compiles all your fishy things. It would be called FishHub or AquariaHub, and would be free, with optional subscriptions for bonus features. My dream product would not be a product, but an app or website. Okay, I’ve spent the last couple days reading through this entire thread to see if anyone has the same idea as me, and it appears I’ve come up with something original. So in the end I agree with you a camera on the outside still yields the highest quality results. In the end videoing from the outside, using the same reflection minimization techniques I use with the honeybee observation hive yielded the best results. There was no glare and no reflections, but the video quality of the camera and the bandwidth of the wireless stream was marginal at best, really not good enough. I have used a wireless underwater camera to stream video from inside some of my aquariums. It still takes a long time to properly setup a quality shot for the observation hive. Even polarized lens only help marginally. But some of the biggest obstacles to overcome when videoing through a pane of glass are reflections and glare bouncing off the glass and ruining the shot. With my honeybees, I have used a camera to stream video from the outside of the glass observation hive looking in out to YouTube. I keep honeybees and tropical fish in glass boxes in my home. I've gotten good results spying on my fish using a camera looking in from the side. But you'd need to tear down the tank you make it.įor those who want underwater cameras, whats the advantage vs putting the camera out side of the tank. If you make a slow moving plenum, you can keep water moving through the sand so you theoretically don't need to disturb it. The grooved edges for the skimmer allowed him to vacuum without sand going up. I've seen "DIY King" make a filter/skimmer/gravel vac. I know there's things like Malaysian trumpet snails but I don't want to deal with that issue either lol. I am constantly turning the sand during water changes because I don't want toxic gas build up, it would be like a little robotic triangle or tiny magnetic block like for algae but doesn't sink going under the substrate constantly. And my other thought would be an artificial sand turner. I just read through all of this thread, my ideas don't seem as cool as a lot of you but I wish there was a siphon that can suck any kind of substrate, I find that mine constantly sucks up sand even when I kink the hose when I see it starting to rise, it would be cool to see a siphon that can suck up the crap but not find sand for larger aquariums.