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Let me know if it works because I want to do the same thing with my montis.
It worked.. But the magnet isn't strong enough unfortunately. Half inch glass is too much.
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It's a pretty darn good picture Paul. I haven't seen someone go this far to take a photo of a sick fish in a long time.
Sorry to see one of these guys not doing well.. Dips should definitely help. Hopefully it's not going to die from all the stress they cause though.
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And... Wth...
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Seems that I've figured out how to take better pics with my point and shoot camera. And now I get your problems Ken. It's a pain to actually get photos off the camera, upload them, link to them.... So much harder than cell phone pics. But the pics should be much better....
Anyhow. Here they are:
And this guy kept on sneaking in to most photos I was taking, so here's one of the photo bomber...
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Are those the ones I sold? They are looking great!
They sure are! They're awesome!
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Best shot of the top fin I could get for now:
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It's been long in the making, but finally the colors are starting to change! I figure I'll use this thread to put up some photos and see how long the complete transformation takes. And show Ken what they look like
FYI, I've had the 3 for a few months and it's been that long that the top fin of this guy has been growing.
It's hard to take photos, he's way too quick. These are just screenshots of slow motion video on iPhone.
All 3 together:
Can see the spots on the fins start to develop:
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Lol fair enough. Perhaps it'll be a slow dosing of iron and all my SPS will look amazing
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Hmm. Fair enough.
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Update: it doesn't run as cool as I want in a hot, humid garage. Not going to mass produce it until it will work in a somewhat extreme environment. But, on the positive side, the temp it holds has been very steady for the past 3 months of continuous duty. So at least the cooler design is reliable so far, even if not acceptible performance.
I will happily buy one that works in an air conditioned room that's at 73 degrees year round.
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Well, I couldn't even get the app to log me in, so I decided to just skip it all together. Website works just fine.
The apex app you download from the App Store inst what you'd use to get on fusion.
That's the old app that requires static ip and port forwarding. For fusion, just type in:
apexfusion.com
In your mobile browser. Then (at least for iphone) save the window to home screen. If you access it from that bookmark on home screen instead of typing in website into browser, it'll function like an app.
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I found this place a while back https://www.kjmagnetics.com/products.asp?cat=164
Good god those are some crazy magnets there. I'm definitely ordering from them if this idea doesn't work well.
A problem that you will face is that if you move your frag plugs or rack (whatever you are trying to build), you might peel off the plasti dip paint and expose the magnets to saltwater.
Yeah, that's my main concern. But I'm not trying to build something I'll move often (if at all). Idea is to have a strong magnet that has a big monti cap attached to it. Once it's all done, I don't particularly want to mess with where it's placed. It's just too big to superglue to the back glass.
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I'm going to have to try Dante's method as it seems to be the clearest method I have heard to date. One add on question for Fusion users.
Does it recognize multiple Apex's on the same network? I have 1 Apex Lite and 2 Apex Jr.s controlling 3 separate tanks on separate floors and sides of my house (otherwise I would have used the Lite to control all).
Currently I have the three tanks named Bowfront, Dominick and Frag Tank. Can I basically do the same thing for Fusion?
Yep you sure can have multiple. You can either have different accounts for all of them or have multiple ones on the same account. When you log into fusion, first screen is where you select the apex you'd like to manage.
It's that IP address thing from my novel above. Each apex will have a different one. And you can have unlimited IP's (not quite unlimited, but for all intents and purposes it is. Unless you have millions of devices on your home network) all connected to your home router.
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I'm using the website and not an app, so the signal has to get bounced out of my network first to Fusion's servers and then back to the Apex (I think).
There is no difference between website and phone app. Your apex is connected to the fusion cloud always. That's how it graphs etc. You connect to that same fusion cloud from whatever device using whatever network. Then when you log in, it matches you to your appropriate apex. Which way you connect to the fusion cloud to look/change settings doesn't matter.
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Rubber paint. Didn't think about powder coating... Hmm. That would certainly be easier.
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cant you just buy a cheap magfloat for small tanks and glue it to that?
1/2" thick glass. I have a cheap mag float and it wouldn't hold it up. And expensive mag floats are too big. A 1" square magnet is much easier to disguise.
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Fair enough. So a few days.. Ehh. I'm too impatient for that lol.
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I read on reef central that it is safe after it cures.
Awesome. Proceeding with the plan then
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You can also buy magnets that are already plastic Coated.
Yeah, but not anywhere that will make them appear at my house in the next 8 hours. And then I'd worry that the plastic coating has a pinhole somewhere and it'll eventually rust out the magnet.
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So, I'm currently in process of trying to come up with a cheap solution to having a strong magnetic frag plug to hold up a large monti cap on the back wall of my tank. I figured, buy some magnets from Lowe's and spray them with Plastidip. I figure 3-4 heavy coats of it will be enough to ensure that no water can get through to the magnet and rust it. Is that safe though?
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Right. Firewall and updating stuff and fusion. So. There's a couple different things that come into play here:
to update apex firmware. This is easy to do, and yes, while updating it you will need to turn off the firewall.
Here's the deal. And neptune website will go into this as well. You MUST have the computer and the apex plugged in via Ethernet cable to the router. With the apex, it's easy. It's plugged in already. Since it doesn't have built in wifi, you must have plugged the apex into one of two things. 1- your main router. 2- a wifi adapter (thingie that connects to your home wifi and has Ethernet plugs in it. Originally mainly used for gaming purposes before consoles had wifi built in). Main thing here is that you have to plug the computer into the same thing the apex is plugged into. So if it's connected to the router, you plug in your computer into the router (make sure you turn off wifi on the laptop so it's connected with a wire only) and update. If your apex is connected into a wifi adapter, plug the computer into the adapter and you're set.
What can(will) cause huge problems is if you connect to the apex via home wifi (during update connection is lost and your firmware is gone) or if you have apex plugged into wifi adapter and you plug computer into the main router (same problem as above). Don't connect your laptop directly to the apex by the way. Aka plug one end of an Ethernet cable into your laptop and the other end into the controller with nothing in between. It's possible to do it, but you'll have to make a lot of changes for the two to recognize each other.
Anyhow. Once you're done with the update and it's all good to go, you can turn firewall back on and you're set.
Now, before fusion, you'd have to set a static IP address for your apex and then if you connected to that address (from anywhere), you'd have access to the apex. Problem with that is, home routers usually change their IP addresses a lot. You don't really care about it normally, since it doesn't make any difference to regular online stuff. However, to connect to the apex from outside your home network, you'd need to connect to your router and then connect to the specific port that your apex is set to. And you have to have that permanent. Because if it changes, you won't have access to the controller anymore.
For those not technically inclined, think of it this way: your router (the thingie that plugs into your modem and makes wifi happen in your house) has an IP address. (So does everything on the internet for that matter). It periodically changes it just because it can. Think of connecting to apex from outside home like sending a letter. You put the address on the letter and it goes to the right house. Same as typing an IP address in the web browser. Then the "port" the apex is assigned to is like an apartment in an apartment building. The router is the building and the port is the specific apartment. Now, if you don't have the static IP set up, and you try to "send a letter" to that "apartment" you will be able to for the first (this depends on how often your router changes the address up). A day, a week, an hour, a minute etc. but then after it changes it, your address is useless.
There are plenty of guides on how to set up a static IP address. Use google.
Hopefully that wasn't a jumble, I'm typing on the phone and can only see the sentence above what I've written.
Anyhow. With fusion, you don't need to worry about programming your router to have a static IP address anymore. What it does is connect your apex to the fusion server. So that whenever you go to the fusion server and log in, you're automatically connected to the right apex. Whether or not you change addresses doesn't matter. It's all done automatically and if for some reason your router resets itself (power failure for example) you will still be able to monitor your controller.
So even though it's in beta, it's still very much worth it to have fusion set up.
For fusion to work you don't have to turn off the firewall. Only time you'll turn it off is to update the main controller.
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Did you have to update the firmware of your Apex to use Fusion ? Mine is asking me to do so.
Yep. It has to be updated to latest firmware.
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I use both fusion and regular connection. It's not difficult. Yes, it's in beta. It'll probably be in beta forever. It works just fine.
Those problems with ip addresses, network configuration and all the other stuff.. They go away with fusion. That's the main purpose. Otherwise it's really the same thing.
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How about you sell all of those mp40's you've been hoarding since you're all about the gyre now :-P
Magnet + Plastidip = ?
in Do It Yourself
Never know. My sump is 75g and it's 1/2" glass too.