AquaLot

Those who are involved into fishkeeping and are keen about their aquarium hobby, must certainly know that keeping track of all the aspect this pastime activity entails is quite difficult. One must be able to maintain detailed records about his aquarium, fish species or various parts required for the fish tank. AquaLot was created in order to help users manage their fishkeeping hobby organized, with numerous tools that offer management for tank characteristics, water parameters and events planning.

AquaLot will present users with a clean interface that will promote ease-of-use through its feature layout. One will be able to easily navigate through all the tools required to keep records of the aquarium details, because the application’s thoughtful design.

However, in spite of the good initial impressions, when entering its menus and accessing the different features, users can expect a considerable lag. Basic tasks such as defining a record for a new tank will take long time to finalize and this might frustrate users right from the start.

Users will be able to define their own tanks, with numerous details about the physical dimensions or special components such as the lighting system, heaters or filters / pumps. Each module will contain extensive listings with details about the producer and technical characteristics. Nevertheless, users must keep in mind that toggling between the different modules can sometimes be sluggish.

In addition to the record archival for the tank characteristics and adjacent devices, the application also offers a capable module for scheduling maintenance activities or managing financial aspects. A comprehensive library for fish species is available and users will be able to view statistics for the water’s chemical and physical parameters. Unfortunately, accessing and enabling these parameters will also be quite sluggish.

People who require a basic solution for maintaining all the aspects of their aquarium hobby organized, AquaLot could be worth looking at. However, failing to offer essential features such as exporting tools for the recorded data and coming with numerous flaws, make it a poor choice and users might want to look for more reliable alternatives. In our tests it has exhibited a highly unstable behavior, with random crashes and overall sluggish performance when using most of its features.