10 Gallon Mandarin Experiment Tank

ArowanaLover1902 · Oct 14, 2018

It's unobtrusive

ArowanaLover1902 · Oct 14, 2018

Testing tank 1 is functional. I don’t have a filter on yet, but for the moment the water movement and the live rock will do. The prototype should be completed by Friday.

Threw this guy in as a lab assistant, because why not? He may go when the mandy arrives, but until then he’s helping out. I’ll likely remove the chaeto when the mandy arrives too, I don’t want it to throw off results or anything.

norfolkgarden · Oct 15, 2018

Following along. Definitely interested in purchasing the finished product.

Lol, or beta testing for you after you patent it.

It is my understanding there are 3 levels of patents.

A specific tool/design

That specific design with some modifications

The very concept that that specific tool or design was used for.

All 3 of these examples are horribly worded.
This information comes from meeting someone who spent $2K on their patent that covers the entire concept for their invention and they were telling me all about their invention.

He claimed that even if someone made a better, very different, version that his patent would supersede it.

He was in the process of shopping around the idea with a viable prototype. He was intrested in simply making a small portion of the proceeds after he sold it to a larger manufacturing company.

The leg work / numbers that he fully explained was pretty impressive.

We had an hour to kill on a job site and he managed to fill that with some interesting information.
I just wish I could remember it all.

ArowanaLover1902 · Oct 15, 2018

Yeah I’d like to get a concept patent to protect my similar ideas for seahorses and pipefish. Can’t wait to start on those too (maybe we can make them more mainstream) (I’ll be very pleased if I get to setup a pipefish tank, I’ve wanted those for a long time).

ArowanaLover1902 · Oct 15, 2018

Also, we aren’t sure how beta testing will work yet or if it will happen at all. Once we enter the competition we may be bound by certain rules and regulations.

If we do get to do some beta testing, we will of course look to the R2R community first.

ArowanaLover1902 · Oct 15, 2018

Can’t wait to start testing. We will hopefully be ready by the end of the month (won’t take long to cycle, I used live rock from my refugium, squeezed one of my filter sponges in the tank, and added chaeto, plus I used 5 gallons of water from my tank).

Prototype 1 is going to be paid for today, it will look a good deal different than the final product. I actually want it to look different, it may need to change a great deal and this testing product has a few transparent areas where there won’t be any in the final model, this will allow me to look inside of it and see if something is broken. I see one area where a problem could arise but believe I have a solution that will work.

bluedevils6653 · Oct 15, 2018

very cool man. following along for this

ArowanaLover1902 · Oct 15, 2018

Awesome we are happy to have you!

JBKReef · Oct 15, 2018

I'm battling with the idea of adding a mandarin to my 93 gallon tank, anything to help the pod population short of constant restocking would be amazing.

ArowanaLover1902 · Oct 15, 2018

Well wait a few months for us to finish and hopefully we can help you with that in an awesome way.

ArowanaLover1902 · Oct 15, 2018

I plan on releasing numerous models so that we can help even more fish, our design/business is focused on the mandarin dragonets as its a fish I really like and want to protect. Pipefish and seahorse are my next goals. I have a model that could be used more broadly to feed far more fish, it’ll make feeding your aquarium super easy. That one won’t come out for a bit though, but we’ll try hard to make all these things happen.

count krunk · Oct 15, 2018

there should also be an entrepreneurial presence of some sort that can help you with patents. Such as Blackstone launchpad at UCF

ArowanaLover1902 · Oct 15, 2018

I think there is one here at my college, I just want to finalize it before I move forward

ArowanaLover1902 · Oct 15, 2018

New member joined the team today. Hopefully we can get them on here soon to say hello.

The stupid heater didn't turn on, hate to add another cost but I guess its necessary. Maybe for the best as it was kinda old. As a college student I'm trying to keep costs at a minimum.

axolotl256 · Oct 15, 2018

Hello! I am a new member of the team and, as a Biology major, I hope to learn more about the Mandarins and be able to aid this project's development. I will be furthering the research done by this group and will help in overall communications and eventual presentations!

ArowanaLover1902 · Oct 15, 2018

We paid for the first prototype from @cromag27 (otherwise known as Octo Aquatics) today, it should be done pretty soon. We've already had a great transaction though and I hope we need more prototypes in the future.