Aquarium monitoring workload calculator

Calculate daily monitoring minutes and total observations with your own figures.

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Use daily monitoring minutes and total observations to compare changes to your inputs. The method and limits below explain the scope.

Examples

Examples

Try the starting example

Tank count
5
Observations per tank per day
2
Minutes per observation
3
Planning days
7
Daily monitoring minutes
30
Total observations
70
Total monitoring hours
3.5

Try another scenario

Tank count
6
Observations per tank per day
2
Minutes per observation
3
Planning days
7
Daily monitoring minutes
36
Total observations
84
Total monitoring hours
4.2
Calculation method

Calculation method

Daily monitoring minutes

Work=tanks×observations×minutes; calendar assumes equal spacing each day.

Total observations

Work=tanks×observations×minutes; calendar assumes equal spacing each day.

Total monitoring hours

Work=tanks×observations×minutes; calendar assumes equal spacing each day.

Symbols and units
a
Tank count
b
Observations per tank per day
c
Minutes per observation
d
Planning days

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Assumptions & limits

Assumptions & limits

  • Workload estimate, not a biological monitoring-frequency recommendation. Supported limits: All required fields must be finite values of the exact declared type and within displayed bounds. Lists contain1–1000 finite numbers. JSON tables are numeric rectangular rows, at most100 rows and30 columns; individual tools have stricter shape/domain constraints. Workload estimate, not a biological monitoring-frequency recommendation.
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