wangspeed January 9, 2019 Author January 9, 2019 My water change buddy. Good thing I don’t have to carry buckets. I just push buttons on my phone.
wangspeed January 9, 2019 Author January 9, 2019 Ouch. I think a leopard wrasse took my RMF Acid Trip frag to bed as a pillow. It’s nowhere to be found. I can’t go digging around since everyone is asleep now. Sigh.
wangspeed January 29, 2019 Author January 29, 2019 Upgraded my calcium reactor regulator. I wasn’t able to dial it in to low enough levels before. Now the solenoid stays open for a few hours, which I like because I can adjust the PH level to increase dose as needed instead of changing the flow through the peristaltic pump. The big change is the low flow needle valve and the low pressure gauge that reads at a much lower scale. I can now accurately set it to 3 psi. This needle valve is really nice. Also way pricey. If I knew I was going to be in this deep on the regulator, I might have started with the carbon doser. It is what it is though, and the system now works incredibly well.
wangspeed February 2, 2019 Author February 2, 2019 Organizing the fish room in the basement. A bunch of Ikea shelving to the rescue!
wangspeed February 3, 2019 Author February 3, 2019 That’s super clean. Thanks! It was a giant mess before. Half the room is also our storage room for the house. My stuff had spread to the other side and vice versa. I’m hoping it will stay organized now.
wangspeed February 12, 2019 Author February 12, 2019 Re-scaped. I have a lot more places for coral now. Up close with my rhomboid Tough to see, but I added floating shelves. The overall look was definitely inspired by [uSER=31993]@d2mini[/uSER]Here’s a brighter picture
YHSublime February 12, 2019 February 12, 2019 Looking good! Now you've just gotta wait for everything to turn into colonies!
wangspeed February 12, 2019 Author February 12, 2019 Re-scaped picsLeft sideCenterRightOther random picsFrom the left side down the tank
wangspeed February 12, 2019 Author February 12, 2019 Looking good! Now you've just gotta wait for everything to turn into colonies! I know! I’m really excited about my acros. The ones that have been in longest are really starting to color up nicely.
wangspeed February 14, 2019 Author February 14, 2019 Fish pics, because my corals are too small to be interesting. This guy is looking great! But he is bullying my rhomboid into hiding
wangspeed February 19, 2019 Author February 19, 2019 Nice. Did you order it or make it yourself? No. 3D printing seems like something I would like. If I had the time and energy for another hobby. Please tell more about the buttons! They are buttons wired to the IO port on one of my Apex Neptune PM1 modules. I have the buttons programmed to do certain actions. Like shutting off flow pumps, skimmer, return, etc. The toggle switches are set to turn things on and off until they are flipped back. The momentary buttons are used to start timers for things like feed timers. If anyone wants contact info, LMK. It was $65.
Annap729 February 21, 2019 February 21, 2019 What a build! Your buttons are brilliant. I’ve said to at least two other reefers in the past we need an “oh sh*#” button on the wall next to the DT. I’m hoping Alexa and Siri are coming into the picture soon for Apex. “Hey Siri-feed the fish” :-) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
wangspeed February 23, 2019 Author February 23, 2019 What a build! Your buttons are brilliant. I’ve said to at least two other reefers in the past we need an “oh sh*#” button on the wall next to the DT. I’m hoping Alexa and Siri are coming into the picture soon for Apex. “Hey Siri-feed the fish” :-) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ProThere’s already Alexa integration for Apex. I don’t really want to run Alexa or Google in my home.
wangspeed February 23, 2019 Author February 23, 2019 I’ve had a few questions now about the box from various folks. Here’s a picture that might help. It runs to an IO port, like a breakout box would, but there’s no need for a breakout box since the switches are already integrated. I’ve been using it quite a bit in the last week. I really enjoy having these physical buttons.
Blue Tang Clan February 23, 2019 February 23, 2019 Seems like a reverse breakout box idea. Breakout box: gather on/off signals from devices and send those to the Apex to control This box: take different signals being controlled by the Apex and attach physical buttons to them Thanks again!
wangspeed March 9, 2019 Author March 9, 2019 I had a few setbacks. The first is the most devastating. My yellow belly regal died. I’m not entirely sure what happened here. He didn’t eat as vigorously. Maybe because my other fish are just too aggressive at feeding time. So I upped the frozen clams to twice a day. I didn’t think he was skinny at all, but I found him one morning not coming out for food and he got worse and I lost him by that night The other setback was that my phosphates bottomed out and hit 0 despite feeding tons of frozen food twice a day. I made the mistake of increasing the fuge light an extra hour or so of runtime and it really just eats nutrients like crazy. That caused a tiny bit of dinos to pop up, which caused my first STN event in this tank. I lost a PC Superman, which kept falling and getting blown around, and a few small frags are really questionable right now. Everything else is recovering after a calculated dose of trisodium phosphate. Here’s the nutrient destroyer.
ImGoingCoastal March 9, 2019 March 9, 2019 Holy crap that's a forest of chaeto!Sorry for your losses!Sent from my SM-G970U1 using Tapatalk
YHSublime March 9, 2019 March 9, 2019 Woof. Sorry about the regal. You've been grabbing quite the collection, I'm hoping to catch up with you, but I can't grow cheato like that for the life of me!
Blue Tang Clan March 9, 2019 March 9, 2019 Sorry to hear that! Heartbreaking that it happened so quickly too. What size white flex tubing are you using in the last pictures? Have you been happy with it?
wangspeed March 10, 2019 Author March 10, 2019 Sorry to hear that! Heartbreaking that it happened so quickly too. What size white flex tubing are you using in the last pictures? Have you been happy with it? On the right side, that is a 2” flex PVC. It leads to a flow sensor and the. Up to a split where I run 2 1” pipes for the return. I really like flex pvc. It is much more forgiving than solid pvc in terms of how carefully you have to make all the angles and connections, since it can just bend.
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