BIOACTIVECOLLECTIVE
The Bioactive Collective
Pre-release / Founder pricing open
Built solo in Perth, Western Australia
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Reef. Aquascape. Vivarium. Terrarium. Reptile. Aviary. Invert culture. One platform reads all seven, learns your parameters, and calls the crash weeks before your livestock does.
Every paid plan carries a numbered founder seat. Free accounts sit outside it.
The problem
Your ecosystem warns you for three weeks. Your notes app never reads the warning.
Alkalinity drifts a little each day. The springtail colony thins. A shrimp moults badly and nobody logs the GH. Every signal lands somewhere different, so nothing joins up. Then the setup crashes on a Tuesday and you start again with a lighter wallet.
The data was there the whole time. Nothing was reading it.
02 / What breaks
Fourteen problems
keepers call normal.
None of them are normal. Every row below names the mess on the left and the tool retiring it on the right. Build the list yourself and you get a decade of side projects. Or you get this.
Records
Notes scattered across four apps
One dated record per setup. Photos, parameters, feeding, dosing and maintenance land in the same timeline.
Journals
Parameters
You test, then forget the number
Log once. Trend charts, CSV export and drift detection do the reading for you.
Logging
Forecast
Problems surface after the damage
Trend analysis flags alkalinity swings, pH crashes, humidity drops and nitrate creep before crisis point.
Alerts
Dosing
Fertiliser maths on the back of a receipt
Calculators for fert dosing, reef Balling, CO2, UVI, thermal gradients, substrate layers and water-to-land ratios.
Calculators
Advice
Ten forum replies, ten contradictions
An advisor reasoning from your parameters, your stock and your history instead of a generic care sheet.
BIOME
Stocking
Livestock bought on vibes
Compatibility scoring with hard-fail rules for water chemistry, aggression and shrimp safety. Caridina and Neocaridina stop sharing a tank by accident.
Scoring
Algae
Treat the symptom, buy the chemical
Root-cause diagnosis. BBA reads as CO2 instability. GDA reads as an immature system. Hair algae reads as a light and nutrient imbalance.
Diagnosis
Custodians
The cleanup crew crashes in silence
Population modelling from seed count, growth curve and temperature, plus a bioload clearance meter and reseed reminders.
Crew
Identify
Blurry photo, no answer
Photo diagnostics for species ID and for visible disease, pests, deficiencies and husbandry risk.
Vision
Schedule
Water change was, what, last month
Per-setup task schedules with overdue flags across every enclosure on one screen.
Reminders
Sprawl
Reef in one app, frogs in another
Seven pillars, one account, one data model. Your reef and your dart frog viv sit side by side.
Unified
Hardware
Probe data trapped in vendor apps
Live sensor ingestion plus an automation rule engine for misting, fogging, heat and dosing.
Automation
Progress
Two years in, nothing to show
380 achievements across seven rarity tiers, streaks, seasons and a photo history you own outright.
Records
Surplus
Selling frags in a comment thread
A marketplace for livestock, plants, frags, cultures and feeders with keepers across Australia.
Market
$400+
Restocking one crashed Caridina colony. Substrate and RO not included.
3 weeks
Typical warning window before livestock shows visible distress.
6 apps
Notes, spreadsheet, camera roll, two forums and a group chat.
0
Records you keep the day the spreadsheet gets overwritten.
Founder pricing closes the hour the platform goes live.
03 / The catalogue
Seven pillars.
One account.
Pick a pillar when you create a setup. The platform loads the right database, the right calculators and the right AI context. Every pillar sits on every plan, free included. Founder status sits behind the paid tiers. Keep one enclosure or fifty, in any mix.
04 / The feature nobody else built
Your cleanup crew
is a population, not a bag.
Isopods, springtails, copepods and snails process the waste every other tool ignores. The Collective models the colony from seed count, growth curve and temperature, then compares its clearance rate against the waste your animals produce. When the crew falls behind, you hear about it before the detritus does the talking.
Cleanup crew / Dart frog viv
Healthy
Self sustaining
Self sustaining
Establishing
BIOME advisor
Context: 210L reef
Paludarium on a misting cycle. Springtails work the litter, shrimp graze the biofilm below.
Crew modelling reads both
05 / What ships
The build order.
47 features on the roadmap. Two shipped. Founding members vote on the order of everything after Onboarding, every quarter, for as long as they hold the seat.
| Feature | What you get | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Landing and profiles | Accounts, setup records, dashboard shell | Live |
| Contests | Community contests, entries and judging | Live |
| Knowledge base | Species, plants, parameters and care logic in one searchable core | In build |
| Livestock tracking | Per specimen records for health, feeding and husbandry | Queued |
| Stocking calculator | Bioload maths and compatibility scoring with hard fail rules | Queued |
| Dosing calculators | Fert, Balling, CO2, UVI, thermal gradients, substrate layers | Queued |
| Algae guide | Root cause diagnosis mapped from symptom pattern to fix | Queued |
| Onboarding | Guided first setup, tuned per pillar | Queued |
Metric only. Celsius, litres, centimetres. Prices in AUD, GST included.
06 / The first 500
Be a Founder.
Paid plans only.
Founders keep their Founder Rate Passport across every paid tier while the membership stays active. The number runs from Founder 001 to Founder 500, personal and non-transferable. A 60 day recovery window protects the status after a failed payment or an accidental cancellation.
- Founder Rate Passport across every paid tier
- Permanent Founder number, 001 to 500
- Private Founder Council with advisory roadmap votes and previews
- 30 day opt-in early access to new tools and biome expansions
- Founder Resource Vault with premium husbandry templates
- Ten Mythic founder achievements, animated and permanent
Founder crest. Concept render, minted to your number at launch.
07 / Membership
Free to start.
More power as you go.
Every pillar sits on every plan. You pay for capacity, deeper AI and hardware automation. The first 500 paid members hold the prices below for life, on every tier, including upgrades. AUD, GST included.
Cultivator
For the growing keeper
5 setups, 25 AI chats a day
Founder rate locked while active
Compare plansNaturalist
Most keepers land here
Full AI vision, crash and drift alerts
Founder rate locked while active
Compare plansCurator
Automation and pro
Sensors, automation rules, API
Founder rate locked while active
Compare plansOr pay once. Lifetime Founder runs A$1,599, one time, 473 spots left, and carries Curator for life. See the Lifetime offer.
Buce grows here, in moving water.
Rheophyte habitat. Match the flow, the hardness and the light and it holds. Miss them and it melts, quietly, three weeks before you notice.
08 / Fine print
Good to know.
Today. Payment is what issues the founder number, so the card clears now and your number, badge and 10 founder achievements land straight away. Membership time starts on launch day, so the wait between now and 14 November costs you nothing. Refund any time before launch and the number goes back in the pool.
No. Founder status sits behind payment, on every paid plan and on Lifetime. A free account gets no number, no founder achievements, no signature badge, no wall placement and no locked price. Upgrade later and you pay whatever the public rate is then.
Lifetime closes for good and does not return. Subscription prices rise at launch. Founders keep the rate they paid for as long as the subscription runs, through every future feature release.
No. One account covers reef, aquascape, vivarium, terrarium, reptile and amphibian, aviary and invert culture. Run one setup or fifty in any combination on a single dashboard.
Yes. Forager gives you one full setup, journaling, environment tracking, database access, basic calculators, community features and three AI chats a day. Founder rewards stay out of reach on it. Move up when you need capacity, vision or automation.
No. Every plan works on manual logging alone. Curator adds ingestion for supported probe and controller data plus automation rules for misting, foggers, heat and dosing.
One person. Solo full stack developer, 15 years of hands on aquascaping, running a live goods store since 2017 out of Perth. The compatibility logic, the algae diagnosis and the CO2 maths come from keeping the animals, not from scraping care sheets.
You export the lot as CSV on any paid tier, and on Curator through the API. Your journals, photos and parameter history stay yours. No resale of your records, on any plan.
The fallback
Not paying today?
Start free instead.
Forager stays free forever. One setup, journaling, database access, basic calculators, three AI chats a day. No founder number, no badge, no locked price. Upgrade whenever you like, at the public rate of the day.