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On Monday my new aquarium controller hardware came and I spent both that evening and the following evening getting it set up:
I got this dual-core dosing container from Printed Reef to hold my reference A and B fluids for the ion director and plumbed it in. Now that it’s all hooked up and on, it kinda looks like something you would see in the background in Mr. Freeze’s laboratory… just needs blue dye in the reference fluids haha!
I accidentally ordered extra ref B but not A so will be fixing that mixup this week lol
The probe is doing some kind of preparatory soak right now and I’ll get to take the first measurement with it a bit later today, just after noon, which I’m pretty excited about
Unfortunately, NONE of this stuff, including the power bar, fits into the equipment area in my cabinet…. which is fun since I forgot to check dimensions before I spent all the money. So I will be putting it in the space behind the cabinet instead. The next step on this particular piece of the project will be to 3D print some kind of thing to hold it a little better than this.
On the software side my first impressions are: robust and featureful, but really bad UI. Absolutely awful. As unintuitive as it gets, it reminds me of Panasonic’s PBX management console from the 1990s in a lot of ways lol. At least most of it doesn’t need to be touched once things are configured. I’ll have to figure out how to get all the sensor data into home-assistant for better graphing.
On the tank side: I unfortunately no longer have the conchs. I didn’t see what happened to the tiger conch, the shell turned up empty after a few days, but I did see what happened to the fighting conch: last night, Harry the halloween hermit, committed conch murder, right in front of me. I attempted a rescue operation but it was too late, the conch was done for. All that I managed to accomplish there was to allow the two shrimp to get a few bites in too. Welp! No more conchs in this tank, unless I move Harry to another tank eventually first anyway lol
I still haven’t seen the goby again yet but I now hear the pistol shrimp snap at something else in there, at least once per evening now. I haven’t spotted it but I have clearly heard it. It’s somehow both louder and quieter than I expected lol
One more dose of cipro left on the BJD treatment. I’m pretty sure the smaller duncan did not make it. Every day, I get less confident that this will save the other duncan, but I’m gonna keep the treatment going to the end of the course and cross my fingers that it does work
I got this dual-core dosing container from Printed Reef to hold my reference A and B fluids for the ion director and plumbed it in. Now that it’s all hooked up and on, it kinda looks like something you would see in the background in Mr. Freeze’s laboratory… just needs blue dye in the reference fluids haha!
I accidentally ordered extra ref B but not A so will be fixing that mixup this week lol
The probe is doing some kind of preparatory soak right now and I’ll get to take the first measurement with it a bit later today, just after noon, which I’m pretty excited about
Unfortunately, NONE of this stuff, including the power bar, fits into the equipment area in my cabinet…. which is fun since I forgot to check dimensions before I spent all the money. So I will be putting it in the space behind the cabinet instead. The next step on this particular piece of the project will be to 3D print some kind of thing to hold it a little better than this.
On the software side my first impressions are: robust and featureful, but really bad UI. Absolutely awful. As unintuitive as it gets, it reminds me of Panasonic’s PBX management console from the 1990s in a lot of ways lol. At least most of it doesn’t need to be touched once things are configured. I’ll have to figure out how to get all the sensor data into home-assistant for better graphing.
On the tank side: I unfortunately no longer have the conchs. I didn’t see what happened to the tiger conch, the shell turned up empty after a few days, but I did see what happened to the fighting conch: last night, Harry the halloween hermit, committed conch murder, right in front of me. I attempted a rescue operation but it was too late, the conch was done for. All that I managed to accomplish there was to allow the two shrimp to get a few bites in too. Welp! No more conchs in this tank, unless I move Harry to another tank eventually first anyway lol
I still haven’t seen the goby again yet but I now hear the pistol shrimp snap at something else in there, at least once per evening now. I haven’t spotted it but I have clearly heard it. It’s somehow both louder and quieter than I expected lol
One more dose of cipro left on the BJD treatment. I’m pretty sure the smaller duncan did not make it. Every day, I get less confident that this will save the other duncan, but I’m gonna keep the treatment going to the end of the course and cross my fingers that it does work
