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I think I might have been just been depressed last night :) Sometimes the hobby can be depressing haha... I bought my tank established and it's been one battle after another trying to get it under control.. I thought i was finally on the last step but... Oh well. no need to get overwhelmed...

I had thought i'd been taking care of my aiptasia... hitting them with aiptasia-x whenever i see any and for the last couple week i hadn't seen any.... well today i noticed a couple on the edge of a rock that i couldn't reach (180 gal tank so can't reach the bottom) so i picked up the...

"What do you do for living?" "Oh i'm a marine biologist." "Interesting! Who do you work for?" "The Church." "..."

algae scrubber?

Hm! Interesting.. I wouldn't think it's mechanical? the receptacle bar must have it's own little mini-controller inside? neat! They really did think of everything :D

Also, do any of you Apex people know how their controlled receptacles work? Can you set a default state? If you have powerheads running through your apex receptacles and you unplug the controller what happens? I've thought about it and realized i'll probably need to run all my outputs through...

Arkansas, a plc is exactly what i'm talking about! A PLC doesn't run software per se, what you are thinking of software to run on is probably the programming and configuration software. i've decided to go with the controllogix platform but not the current generation, an L1 which is first...

yuuuup Sammy... I got em too :( all mine just so happen to be on a huuuge piece of rock that supports alot of other rock so to take it out i'll need to practically dismantle the tank :(

Blurgh that eye creeps me out

Bifferwine sells some for really reasonable (or atleast she used to).. Send her a message to see

bbq eel sushi? :D

I downloaded and flipped through them just to see if there was anything technical but it was focused on the reality tv portion and not the hobby portion... on this note though anyone heard of any shows about the hobby ... or even recommend some nature shows on reefs or saltwater life in general?

+1 wonton.. you wouldn't get a much better fit for a single fish in an 8 gal than a clownfish.. they are not picky eaters generally in my experience too

Got a bit of work done on the back pan for my electrical panel today. Notice my work bench is an empty cable reel... nothing but professionalism from me :) (edit: actually TWO cable reels stacked on top of each other. The swaying makes it extra safe :D ) without the duct cover with...

Finally started my PLC aquarium controller build - Reef Central Online Community This is similar to what i have planned, but i'll be much more compact as I don't have a fish room or basement to store equipment.. hence why the wooden cabinet as opposed to a normal electrical enclosure

Which, if any, metals are aquarium safe? I know some are obviously not.. copper and iron etc I'm just looking at various types of probes for measuring water quality (nitrates, temp, salinity etc) and nearly all have metal as part of the probe Any ideas?

you should really have no more than 5 fish...6 would be pushing it imo

Here's the cabinet I got to store all the electrical components ... I was going to also store fw in there for the ATO but i realized now that all the ballasts and what not can be moved to the cabinet i have room under by stand now :D Also have 2 drawers on the cabinet which is nice.. so i can...

Oh man.. good luck! moving a tank suuucks... hope you got your strategy all planned out :D

:) Clearly commercial controllers are more advanced than I thought but regardless I'm doing this for fun. Maybe i'll be able to stroke my own ego somewhere along the way and i'll be able to implement something that fastrd and Wes go "oh cool!" to :D. But maybe not... and at the very least I...