Scilago Documentation

Core

Dashboard

Your aquarium command center. See all tanks at a glance and what needs doing today.

✓ Multi-tank overview with parameter sparklines and maturity badges
✓ “Today” list: overdue doses, maintenance and water tests, for one tank or all
✓ Low-stock alerts for consumables
✓ Tips filtered by water type

Core

Tank Management

Manage multiple tanks with detailed profiles. Saltwater, freshwater, or brackish — 17 subtypes supported.

✓ Display + sump volume tracking
✓ Tank images, archiving, refugium support
✓ Report card graded A+ to F over 6 categories, with score history, achievements and a PDF to download (server)
✓ Visual timeline with events and milestones
✓ Emergency checklists (power outage, leak, overheating, dead animal) with a running timer; the incident goes into the tank’s journal

Core

Water Parameters

Track temperature, salinity, pH, alkalinity, calcium, magnesium, nutrients and more. Normal ranges adapt automatically to your tank type across 17 subtypes.

✓ 11 standard parameters + 7 optional tests per tank (iodine, strontium, potassium, boron, iron, silicate, copper)
✓ Tank-type-aware ranges: SPS, LPS, FOWLR, Planted, Discus, Shrimp, and 11 more
✓ CSV export
✓ Charts with normal range, ideal line and time ranges from 7 days to all
✓ Test-kit formats converted for you (Hanna, Salifert, Red Sea…)
✓ Health timeline: losses, diseases and notes marked on the charts, with the parameters that moved in the two weeks before

Living

Livestock & Compatibility

Track every fish, coral, and invertebrate. Compatibility checking with an 8-rule engine over 90+ species.

✓ Auto-photos from iNaturalist/WoRMS
✓ Compatibility heatmap matrix + network graph
✓ Per-creature timeline (added, moved, died)

Core

Maintenance

Never miss a water change or filter cleaning. Recurring reminders with overdue, due-soon and upcoming counts.

✓ Recurring schedules with custom frequencies
✓ Overdue tasks on the dashboard; on a server, email digests and web push notifications (with quiet hours) once the admin sets up email; in the phone app, reminders arrive as notifications
✓ Completion log with history
✓ Calendar (iCal) and CSV export

Upkeep

Equipment

Inventory every piece of equipment — pumps, lights, heaters, skimmers, controllers. Track condition, warranties and power consumption.

✓ Warranty tracking with expiry badges
✓ Power consumption per tank (kWh + cost)
✓ Move to/from Consumables

Daily Care

Consumables

Track salt mix, additives, food, filter media, and test kits, grouped by type.

✓ Status follows the stock: Active → Low stock → Depleted, and back to Active when restocked
✓ Feeding, dosing and water changes deduct what they use
✓ Low-stock alerts on the dashboard

Daily Care

Feeding

Schedules and a feeding log. Link a food to your consumables for automatic stock tracking.

✓ Recurring schedules with quantity, unit and frequency
✓ “Feed Now” with one tap; overdue schedules flagged

Daily Care

Dosing

Manage calcium, alkalinity, magnesium, and supplement dosing. Calculator, reservoir tracking, and timeline.

✓ Calculator with compound presets (soda ash, calcium chloride, magnesium chloride…) and split-dose advice for large corrections
✓ “Dose Now”, overdue schedules, manual and automatic (doser) schedules
✓ Reservoir tracking: each dose is deducted from the linked consumable
✓ Dose history and timeline

Daily Care

Health & Diseases

Document outbreaks and tank problems, track treatments, and monitor recovery. A built-in list of 40+ common diseases and tank problems, with their symptoms.

✓ Health issues for one animal or the whole tank, with severity and status (active, monitoring, chronic, resolved)
✓ Treatment log with medication tracking
✓ Related photos for visual documentation

Daily Care

Breeding

Track breeding projects from courtship to fry. Spawning logs, egg care, and fry count tracking.

✓ Project lifecycle (planning → spawning → raising fry)
✓ Event logs with fry count tracking

Daily Care

Water Changes

Five tabs: log & history, correction plan, target parameter, impact preview, and water and salt consumption.

✓ Dilution calculator with live preview
✓ 5 salt mix presets, plus RO/DI and tap water
✓ Water change timeline

Daily Care

Lighting

Multi-channel LED schedule management with 6 built-in presets and area charts.

✓ Multi-channel intensity curves
✓ 6 built-in presets (Acropora/SPS, LPS & mixed reef, soft corals, planted, refugium)

Analysis

Finances

Track spending by category and tank. Budgets, monthly charts, and electricity costs.

✓ Category breakdown, electricity included
✓ Monthly spending charts
✓ Budgets with a progress bar and over-budget warning

Analysis

ICP Tests

Keep your ICP-OES lab results per tank: 50+ elements across 5 groups, with quality scores and a status for each element.

✓ 50+ elements: major, minor, nutrients, pollutants
✓ Quality scores (0–100) per element group
✓ Phone app: import the CSV export of an ATI report (“Open in Scilago” works too)
✓ Server: upload the PDF report from ATI and every element is read and scored; matching elements (Ca, Mg, KH, NO₃, PO₄…) also appear on the parameter charts
✓ Test history per tank, element tables with color-coded status

Elements Tracked

Base: Salinity, KH

Major (10): Cl, Na, Mg, S, Ca, K, Br, Sr, B, F

Minor (18): Li, Si, I, Ba, Mo, Ni, Mn, As, Be, Cr, Co, Fe, Cu, Se, Ag, V, Zn, Sn

Nutrients: NO₃, P, PO₄

Pollutants (10): Al, Sb, Bi, Pb, Cd, La, Tl, Ti, W, Hg

Sharing

Sharing & Vacation Mode

Share a tank with a public link, give access to people you trust, or leave a page for whoever looks after it while you’re away. All from the tank’s Sharing tab.

✓ Public read-only tank profile: volume, livestock, photos, lighting, maturity and report card
✓ Invite people by email, with read or write access
✓ Access links that can expire and be revoked at any time
✓ Vacation mode: a sitter page with no account needed, built from the tank’s schedules, reminders and stock, plus your instructions and emergency steps; the link stops working the day after you’re back

Tools

Test Lab & Tools

Small tools for the moments between two tests.

Test Lab

Step-by-step procedures for 21 test kits (API, Hanna, Salifert, Red Sea)
Countdown timers that start on the wait steps
A floating timer that stays visible on every page, with a sound when it ends

Calculators

Water change planner and impact preview
Dosing calculator for Ca, KH, Mg and trace elements
Unit converter: temperature, volume, salinity, alkalinity, weight, concentration

Learn & more

Learn: beginner guides and a glossary
Notes, events and photos & videos per tank, sorted into albums
Wish list for the livestock and gear you plan to buy

Mobile

Phone App & Offline

Scilago runs in the browser, installs as a web app, and exists as a native app for iOS and Android that keeps everything on the phone.

Native app (iOS / Android)

Device-only: data stays in a database on the phone, no server or account
Back up to a file through the share sheet; restore a backup, or the export of a Scilago server account, with “Open in Scilago”
Reminders for maintenance, dosing and feeding as phone notifications, never during the night
Native iOS look, bottom tab bar, swipe back on iOS

Web app & PWA

Installable from the browser (“Add to Home Screen”, needs HTTPS)
Offline: recently viewed data stays readable, and new entries sync when the connection returns
Light and dark themes

Everywhere

15 languages
Metric or imperial units, °C or °F, your currency
Built from source with Capacitor (see the README)

Data

Your Data

Your aquarium history belongs to you: export it, back it up, restore it.

Export

CSV export of parameters, livestock and maintenance
“Download my data”: everything about your account in one zip
Calendar file (iCal) of maintenance, dosing and feeding schedules

Safety nets

Recently deleted: anything deleted in the last 30 days can be restored (Ctrl+Z restores the latest)
Server backups by the admin: database and uploads, restore with a preview
Phone app: a reminder to back up, and backups through the share sheet

Integrations

Personal API tokens for scripts and the reef-pi bridge
REST API under /api/v1, documented in the API guide
Your server, your database: PostgreSQL you can query

Admin

Admin Panel

For whoever runs the server: users, settings, backups and system health.

Users & settings

User management: edit, reset password, delete
Module toggles for the whole instance
Default country, units and currency
SMTP and SMS settings with a test send

Data & storage

Backups: create, download, restore with a preview of what they contain
Full database dump and restore
Storage browser and per-user data export/import

Health & usage

System health checks and recent errors
Usage statistics
Species traits editor for the compatibility checker

Architecture

Tech Stack

FastAPI

Python 3.11 backend

React 18

TypeScript + Vite

PostgreSQL

40+ models

Alembic

Schema migrations

Docker

4-service compose

Tailwind

Dark/light themes

15 Languages

i18next + 35 namespaces

Capacitor

iOS & Android app, SQLite

View Source on GitHub API Reference Changelog

Documentation

Feature Guide

Core

Daily Care

Analysis & More

Dashboard

Tank Management

Water Parameters

Livestock & Compatibility

Maintenance

Equipment

Consumables

Feeding

Dosing

Health & Diseases

Breeding

Water Changes

Lighting

Finances

ICP Tests

Elements Tracked

Test Lab & Tools

Test Lab

Calculators

Learn & more

Phone App & Offline

Native app (iOS / Android)

Web app & PWA

Everywhere

Your Data

Export

Safety nets

Integrations

Admin Panel

Users & settings

Data & storage

Health & usage

Tech Stack