# Dashboard

The dashboard page in the Ocenaograph plaform presents you with a quick overview of your latest recorded tank parameters. It may also present you with potential issues that need to be resolved, or scheduled maintenance or dosing tasks that need to be fulfilled.

It is your starting point in the Oceanograph platform.

An example of a dashboard with healthy test results

# Parameters Summary

The dashboard will present you with an overview of your latest tank water value parameters. The most important parameters to test for are:

Ammonia
Nitrite
Nitrate
Phosphate
Calcium
Magnesium
Alkalinity
Ph
Salinity

A Pro subscription plan will also provide you information about additional elements such as Strontium, Barium and Iodine amongst others. These parameters are equally important but less of a concern for a beginning reefer given you perform regular water changes.

Each of these parameters or elements are vital to sustaining life in your tank. Failing to balance these elements to mimic the concentrations naturally occuring in the ocean greatly affects the health of your tank inhabitants. All of these elements are linked together and the fluctuation of one element may affect another parameter. On the contrary, if the parameters listed hereabove are dosed in correct concentrations, your tank inhabitants will prosper in a healthy environment.

See: Stability

Your dashboard will indicate whether your test results are within an acceptable range. Values that should be monitored and/or adjusted will be displayed in orange or red colors.