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There is a company called Felix Smart that is already working on this. They have an aquarium controller that uses a camera in the tank to monitor for illness.
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This is really cool. I am in school right now for IT /cybersecurity and have at least a decent understanding of databases /app dev atm. I really want to come up with something to help w/aquaculture too.New to keeping an aquarium and recently had my first fish die. Needless to say, this has me wondering a few things.
Did I do something wrong? Did I diagnosis the correct illness/ or disease or parasite or bacteria? Did I buy the right medication?
Members here on R2R were quick to jump in and provide some solutions and diagnosis and for that I am very thankful. What I did realize is that there is a lack of state of the art tools to help out us aquarists.
I have experience in building computer vision diagnostic systems. I am interested to see if it has a place within this hobby. The most important thing to make this work is volume of data, pictures of fish with their diagnosis.
I look to you members. If this is something that would be useful to you, help me build it with data! Send me or post pictures of your sick fish and their diagnosis. I will collect, sort and begin training the computer vision model!
If there are any developers in the community out there that would like to be a part of this, send me a message!
Looking forward to hearing the feedback.
Kingsford's book was our "bible" back in the day. It doesn't hold up too well though - in his diagnostic key, he lists "nitrite poisoning" as one outcome. We now know that nitrite is non-toxic to marine fish, but perhaps by substituting "ammonia" in the same spot it would work.Back in 1975 Eduard Kingsford, M.D. wrote Treatment of Exotic Marine Fish Diseases. Chapter two of this book consisted of a 46 step diagnostic procedure for identifying different diseases. About this time I was running a BBS (Bulletin Board System) called Radiata Press BBS. My BBS was actually in support of MACNA 3. I rewrote and coded his procedure into the BBS. It was originally running on an Atari ST system and was later converted to a Windows system. (I'd like to credit both BBS applications, but they (like my memory of them) are now long gone. I might be able to find some of my code, but it (like my memory) is probably long gone. I do still have his book, and I'd be willing to send photocopies of Kingford's procedure to anyone committed to creating a free diagnostic procedure for reefers, even if it is incorporated into the Reef2Reef site.
I looked at their site. Their device looks a regular aquarium controller that can also attach a camera. I can’t find any evidence of computer vision on that camera. Do you have a link or source you can post?There is a company called Felix Smart that is already working on this. They have an aquarium controller that uses a camera in the tank to monitor for illness.