FishKam Aquarium Remote Monitoring Camera Review and UnBoxing

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this is best 30 bucks spent in a long time. I have it angled to be able to see my back door too, and the tank, this is traveler's gold for tank monitoring I like it.
 
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I'm going to snag another for the hallway/qt tank.
I was thinking about doing the same thing for my QT tank....hard to watch the new fish when they are not fully used to the environment, and I alway seem to scar them trying to observe. This would would out much better
 

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this is now my home alarm lol, another coming for the front half of the house. Im able to see my starfish and pods even before lights on. the fishkam pickup is sensitive enough, that tiny window light in a full dark room still gives me basically night vision for my bowl. ok so I haven't cleaned off the water spots, I didn't know this was going on broadcast 24 hours ago :)

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the point is, the detail is so fine even in the dark (the video, this pic doesn't do justice, but its a dark room pic this thing has great contrast/low light pickup) I can tell my pico has no oxygenation events because the micro stars and pods migrate up fast when one has occurred. this cam is peace of mind upgrade for pico reefers
 
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Has anyone been able to access the feed with a web browser? I tried adding it into blue Iris, but it doesn't recognize it.

The daytime view is quite good, but my night vision is pretty useless. All I see is a reflection of the camera. Anyone else see that?
 

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it must be your placement or your lighting, my night lighting is spot on, I can even pinch zoom in to see pods. its a high contrast b/w setting but pretty neat. those little red led's on the unit fire forward to give some illumination even in dark room

I noticed the kam has to be really close as in almost touching lens to glass to have good night vision

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The camera is good for the price.
Only defect is that mine came with the dried out silicone and it even appears they spilled the glue out of the right place so it is not sticking to the glass.

Thats too bad. Sorry to hear that.
 
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Any way to adjust the color so you can get rid of some blue?

You can apply a gell card to the spot on the glass where the cam is, or tape the card to the cam. You can also alter your lights. There are no camera adjustments built in. In my picture posted above im using a a lot of white LED overhead.
 

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The camera is good for the price.
Only defect is that mine came with the dried out silicone and it even appears they spilled the glue out of the right place so it is not sticking to the glass.
Dried out silicone? Mine has a suction cup on the bottom. Am I missing something?
 
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