TankTide help

Keep the record clear.

Quick guidance for logging tests, scheduling care and keeping a portable local history.

Create a tank

Add a freshwater, planted, brackish, saltwater or reef profile. Choose litres or US gallons and optionally add notes. TankTide does not impose a tank limit.

Log a water test

Use Quick test from Today or open Tests for a tank. Record any built-in parameters you measured—pH, temperature, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, GH, KH or salinity—or create a custom numeric parameter. Leave anything you did not measure blank.

Use a target band

A target band is optional and entered by you. It appears as personal context on a parameter trend. TankTide does not choose, verify or interpret the band and does not label a reading safe or unsafe.

Schedule recurring care

Create a care task with your own title, due date and repeat interval—for example, water, filter, glass or equipment work. From Today you can complete, snooze, skip or reopen an item, and each action is retained in combined History. To record work already completed, use Log completed work and enter the date it occurred.

Track inventory changes

Add livestock, plants or equipment with quantity and notes. Livestock can be current, relocated or deceased; plants and equipment use their own plain lifecycle states. These states are records only and do not assess stocking or compatibility.

Find or correct a record

Search the combined History for a value or note. Tank and inventory details can be edited from their own screens. Where an undo message appears after a destructive change, use it before the message closes.

Export or back up

Use the data controls to export tests, maintenance and livestock as separate CSV files. JSON backup contains the structured TankTide record set for restore. Keep backups in a location you trust. To restore in v1, paste the complete backup text into the restore field, then validate and restore. Before restoring, create a fresh backup because restore changes the local record set.

Fix a missing reminder

Confirm that notifications are allowed for TankTide in system settings, the care item is still scheduled for the future and the app's reminder setting is enabled. Device power-saving or focus settings can affect delivery timing. TankTide reminders are local and do not require an account.

Advertising

A labelled banner stays outside record editors. App-open advertising begins only after the first session, is capped and is suppressed when TankTide opens from one of its local reminder notifications. The optional rewarded placement applies a temporary Ocean Glow appearance only. There are no interstitial ads and no functional feature is locked.

Contact

Email tools@softwarehouse.au with the TankTide version/build, device model, operating-system version and exact steps that reproduce the issue. Please redact names and do not attach a real JSON backup.