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So I’ve been out of the hobby for about 6years, had a couple of tanks in Sydney previously, with mixed success.
This tank has been sitting dry with me for 4 years, moved between 3 apartments in SF. With the quarantine, figured I’d finally get around to building it out and cycled.
Goals:
* Fish-only (atleast for first year)
* ULM / highly automated (no carrying water etc)
* Testbed for Reef-pi tinkering (I have some ideas...)
* safety/redundancy on anything that could leak.
In previous builds I had everything manual and got really sick of the amount of labor on handling water changes / top off, I also travel a decent amount, so don’t want to burden the family with those things while I’m away.
planned stocking:
* Puffer
* Mandarin dragonet
* yellow tank
* Nassarius snails
* urchins
* other fish that help clean (TBD)
Equipment list:
* 2ft cube tank, came with basic sump, return pump and cheap skimmer.
* diy LED panel from previous build (probably will upgrade later)
* retrofitted hard pluming and drilled a secondary emergency drain
* robotank premium reef-pi controller (kickstarter)
* HS300 power strip
I’m actually really excited to play around with reef-pi, it will be one of the key ways to automate the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” that I wasn’t a fan of in previous builds. ATO and AWC-macros is going to be fun.
I went with the robotank controller board as I really like the packaging r&d he’s put into it and want to support that project. I’m capable of putting the hardware together from components, but would prefer to spend my time iterating on the Software and the control logic (macros etc).
One thing I was thinking of was building a cloud back-end api for telemetry / alerting (push notifications), basic remote control and possibly a basic IOS app. I work for Amazon (AWS) as my day-job, so that sounds like a fun merging of worlds. If that Dev works out, I’ll provide it back to the community.
This tank has been sitting dry with me for 4 years, moved between 3 apartments in SF. With the quarantine, figured I’d finally get around to building it out and cycled.
Goals:
* Fish-only (atleast for first year)
* ULM / highly automated (no carrying water etc)
* Testbed for Reef-pi tinkering (I have some ideas...)
* safety/redundancy on anything that could leak.
In previous builds I had everything manual and got really sick of the amount of labor on handling water changes / top off, I also travel a decent amount, so don’t want to burden the family with those things while I’m away.
planned stocking:
* Puffer
* Mandarin dragonet
* yellow tank
* Nassarius snails
* urchins
* other fish that help clean (TBD)
Equipment list:
* 2ft cube tank, came with basic sump, return pump and cheap skimmer.
* diy LED panel from previous build (probably will upgrade later)
* retrofitted hard pluming and drilled a secondary emergency drain
* robotank premium reef-pi controller (kickstarter)
* HS300 power strip
I’m actually really excited to play around with reef-pi, it will be one of the key ways to automate the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” that I wasn’t a fan of in previous builds. ATO and AWC-macros is going to be fun.
I went with the robotank controller board as I really like the packaging r&d he’s put into it and want to support that project. I’m capable of putting the hardware together from components, but would prefer to spend my time iterating on the Software and the control logic (macros etc).
One thing I was thinking of was building a cloud back-end api for telemetry / alerting (push notifications), basic remote control and possibly a basic IOS app. I work for Amazon (AWS) as my day-job, so that sounds like a fun merging of worlds. If that Dev works out, I’ll provide it back to the community.