New Section: Aquarium Calculators

[darkdep]

The OVAS Site will finally have our own online set of calculators.  You will notice a new Calculators section on the left Content menu, and I will be adding many types of calculators here.

To start off, we have the basic Aquarium Capacity calculator, which handles Rectangular, Hex, and Cylindrical aquariums; it also supports Metric and Imperial measurements.

The floor is open to suggestions for additions!

[darkdep]

New Calculators Added:

- Temperature
- Liquid Measurements

[PaleoFishGirl]

Can you add a CO2/pH/KH calculator like the one at Chuck's??

[Seanc]

one thing there are flat back hexagonal tanks now, so the hex won't work for all of them.
GREAT JOB though i realy like how far you have taken this forum.

[darkdep]

PFG:  On the way!

Seanc: Good point...are 5-sided tanks called Pentagonal tanks?    I'll have to see if there are any known equations for those.

Thanks for the kind words as well  

[rockgarden]

You calculating devil you.  Now how are we gong to hijack your threads?


Ron

[rockgarden]

Just to add to your misery I happen to have an eight sided (i.e octaganol tank but it is empty at the moment.

Ron

[Seanc]

OMG APW get it straight, i know my shapes gezzz. they are flat back hexagons
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get it? 6 sides

[BigDaddy]

Flatbacks are fairly easy to figure out.  Figure out the tank if it was all right angles... and then just figure out how many gallons the corners are using pythagorean theory

[Seanc]

oh man don't get me started about the Pythagorean Theorem, pritty much all we did this year. I would think that it would be easyest to cut it in half, calculate the botom as a rectangle, then go up to the top half, and pretend it is a rectangle, and add the two volumes togeter.
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longer explination, but IMO faster, and easyer. screw Pythagorean Theorem when there is a simpler way to do things.