Freshwater, reef & brackish chemistry

Catch the swing before it sinks the tank.

Nerita watches your water chemistry, walks you through your cycle, and tells you the moment a parameter starts drifting, while there's still time to fix it.

Free to start. No test kit lock-in. Log the readings you already take.

Add Nerita to your phone's home screen, it runs like an app, online or off.

Most tanks don't crash from neglect. They crash from a drift nobody noticed until the fish started to pay for it.

What Nerita does

A second set of eyes on your water.

Every tank is different. Nerita adjusts its targets and how loudly it warns you to the kind of system you actually run.

Ask Nerita

A Pro AI advisor that knows your tank. Ask about any species' parameters, temperament, diet, or breeding, or get help with your own water, cycling, and livestock. It answers with your actual readings in mind.

Targets that fit your tank

Reef (soft, LPS, SPS, mixed), FOWLR, fish-only, seahorse, coldwater, plus freshwater (community, soft, hard, coldwater) and brackish. Each one gets its own safe ranges and alert sensitivity, so an SPS tank gets a tighter trip wire while a community freshwater tank isn't nagged over numbers it doesn't need.

Guided cycling

A day-by-day fishless cycle coach tuned to your water type. It reads your ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate and tells you exactly where you are. Free shows you the stage; Pro tells you what to dose and when it's finally safe to add life.

Swing alerts

The dangerous moves are the fast ones. Nerita flags a rapid alkalinity, salinity, or temperature shift the moment it shows in your log, not after the damage.

Livestock log

Track your fish, shrimp, snails, and plants with photos and notes, so you know what's in the tank and what each new addition is asking of your water.

Trends over time

See each parameter's history at a glance and catch the slow creep, the gradual climb that's easy to miss reading by reading.

Use your own kit

No proprietary strips, no subscriptions to test. Log the readings from whatever kit you already own and Nerita does the rest.

Dosing and consumption

For reef tanks, log your alkalinity, calcium, and magnesium doses and Nerita works out your daily uptake, so you can set a schedule instead of guessing at it.

Quarantine tanks

Run a quarantine tank with every parameter in full view, so you watch a new arrival as closely as your display tank until it's clear.

Notes and journal

Keep a running journal of what you changed and when. So when a number drifts, the cause isn't a mystery two weeks later.

How it works

Three steps, then it's watching.

STEP 01

Add your tank

Tell Nerita what you keep and how big it runs. That sets your targets and how strict the alerts should be from day one.

STEP 02

Log your readings

Punch in your test results in seconds. Nerita scores each one against your tank's range as you go.

STEP 03

Get coached and warned

Steady guidance while you're cycling, and a clear alert the moment something drifts toward trouble.

See it in action

The whole tank, in your pocket.

Your dashboard at a glance

Every parameter scored against your tank's range, the moment you open the app.

What it tracks

The numbers that keep your tank alive.

Nerita follows the full chemistry panel for your water type, and knows what each number should read for your kind of tank.

Saltwater

Temp 76–82 °F Salinity 1.024–1.026 SG pH 7.8–8.4 Alkalinity 7–12 dKH Calcium 380–450 ppm Magnesium 1250–1350 ppm Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 1–10 ppm Phosphate 0.03–0.10 ppm

Freshwater

Temp 74–80 °F pH 6.5–7.5 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0–40 ppm GH 4–12 dGH KH 3–8 dKH

Brackish

Temp 74–82 °F Salinity 1.005–1.015 SG pH 7.5–8.4 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0–30 ppm KH 8–16 dKH

Pricing

Free keeps the log. Pro keeps the watch.

Free records your water and shows you where every tank stands. Pro adds the coaching and the early warnings that keep you ahead of a crash.

Free

The logbook

$0 forever

Record your water and see exactly where every tank stands today.

  • All your tank's parameters, logged in seconds
  • In-range or out-of-range on every reading
  • Basic Cycle Coach: see exactly where your cycle stands
  • Livestock log with photos
  • Full reading history and trends
  • Bring your existing logs in from a spreadsheet or another app
  • One tank
Start free

Pro

The early-warning system

$39.99 / year

or $4.99 / month · includes a 7-day free trial

The coaching and alerts that catch trouble before it reaches your fish.

  • Everything in Free
  • Ask Nerita: an AI advisor that knows your tank and any species
  • Full Cycle Coach with exact doses and next steps
  • Swing and trend alerts that fire before you're out of range
  • Dosing and consumption tracking for reef tanks
  • Unlimited tanks
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Where Nerita is going

Built in the open.

Nerita is early, and we'd rather show you what's real than pretend it's all here. Here's what just shipped, and what's coming.

Live now

Bring your existing logs

Import your history from a spreadsheet or another app and start with your whole record instead of a blank slate. Available today.

Live now

Add it to your home screen

Install Nerita on your iPhone or Android home screen and it runs fullscreen like an app, with offline logging. Available today.

Planned

Snap-a-photo test reading

Point your camera at your test kit or Hanna checker and let Nerita read the value and log it for you.

Planned

Saltwater ponds, and more

Saltwater ponds are an emerging kind of build, and they run on the same marine chemistry Nerita already tracks. They're first in line, with planted aquascapes and other setups to follow.

Exploring

Connect your controller

Pull readings automatically from popular monitors like the Neptune Apex and Seneye, so your probe data flows into Nerita without hand-logging.

Don't lose your tank.

Start logging in minutes. Let Nerita keep the watch so the next swing doesn't catch you off guard.