DICKUARIUM · GET CONNECTED

A little tank.
A big appetite.

Three steps to local feeding and settings. No account required.

1. Join your tank’s Wi-Fi

Open your phone’s Wi-Fi settings and choose your Dickuarium network. Its name is written on the card in the box. Names vary, such as Hungry Cocks or Hangry Shafts, and nearby tanks can share a name.

Password: didyoufeedthedicks

Stay connected if your phone says “No internet.” This page cannot detect your connected Wi-Fi or connect it for you. Read these steps before switching networks.

2. Open local settings

Once connected to the tank’s Wi-Fi, open this address in Safari or Chrome:

Open Dickuarium settings

http://dickuarium.setup

No prompt? That’s okay. Captive pop-ups are best effort. Recovery address: http://192.168.4.1. The short alias http://dick.tank also works on tank Wi-Fi.

3. Feed them

Press the filter on the lid, or FEED on the settings page. Food sinks, the nearest hungry swimmer goes for it, and every bite makes it bigger. Feed one too much in a short stretch and it swims to the middle and lets it all back out. Unplugging the tank starts everyone over as babies.

Most tanks open settings straight away. If yours asks for a code, the aquarium shows six digits for 60 seconds; enter them in the local pairing page. A paired browser opens settings without another code.

Use the same browser and local address each time. Browser cookies belong to each hostname; a captive pop-up may use a different cookie store.

What the settings page does

Brightness

The slider dims the screen and the tank remembers it. All the way down turns the screen off; slide it back up to get the picture back.

Holiday decorations

The tank dresses up by itself for Halloween, Christmas, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter and the Fourth of July. Decorations only: the swimmers, their food and their growth carry on exactly as before. One switch turns this off.

To know the date, the tank borrows it from your phone whenever you open the settings page, or keeps it itself when home Wi-Fi is set. It forgets the date when unplugged and stays plain until it learns it again.

Rename Wi-Fi

Pick any name for the tank’s own network. It takes effect at the next restart; reconnect with the same password.

Home Wi-Fi (optional)

Give the tank your 2.4 GHz home network and it can fetch firmware updates you ask for, and the date for the decorations. That is all it ever uses the internet for. Nothing is sent up, and everything else works offline. Tap Find networks to pick it from a list, or type the name. Save an empty name to forget it.

Firmware

Check for updates asks our site whether a newer version exists for your tank, then installs it with a tap and restarts. The tank only accepts updates we signed, and it never checks on its own. Install from a file does the same with a downloaded image. Like any restart, an update sends the swimmers back to babies.

Having trouble?

Type the full http:// local address. HTTPS-first settings, VPNs or Private DNS may stop local access. Use the IP fallback, allow local routing, or temporarily use network DNS. Never ignore certificate warnings; the tank does not serve HTTPS.

The tag on your tank opens this guide when your phone is online and your tank’s settings when your phone is on the tank’s Wi-Fi. Some phones insist on HTTPS and then miss the tank; type the local address instead. The local addresses above are the recovery path. NFC does not automatically join Wi-Fi.

Black screen? Open the settings page and check the brightness slider before anything else.