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I'm inspired to one day start a planted freshwater tank.
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I'm inspired to one day start a planted freshwater tank.
LOL.. looking good. I am considering pcb mounted connectors for some projects next, will keep you posted. But i agree, this is the least fun part of the build :-/Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
i wired up the aviation plugs to the pca9685 and to the relay. Hopefully I wired it right. I had forgotten how much I hate pin connectors. Those things must have been designed by the devil or at least a raiders fan. There must be a better way....
time to order a power supply for the relay, and a box to put it in. I also need to figure out the circuit for the moon lights.
Nice planted tank. Try cutting your light intensity a bit if you are getting some algae...after all with reef pi you can do that!The tanks are setup in a temporary spot. But they are doing okay for now. The salt tank is pretty empty. I'm waiting until I can move it to a permanent spot before I add to it. Can you spot Toby?
The planted tank looks nicer, but I've been fighting Algae. I recently added Amano shrimp to help.
In my downtime I decided to remodel the house by removing a load bearing wall and redoing the entire kitchen.
I even hand built a copper range hood. (which is upside down in the garage right now)
Fun times!
It is hair algae and some type of brown algae on the plant leaves. Seems to be killing the leaves and feeding off it. I’ve upped the CO2 and started fertilizing using ei method. I think I’ll just remove the diseased plants so I can get back in front of it.Nice planted tank. Try cutting your light intensity a bit if you are getting some algae...after all with reef pi you can do that!
Is it green algea?
Sorry to hear :-/. I lost couple of fishes during the move . And still feeling sad about it... and Toby is gone. Found him on the carpet this morning. The picture above was the last time I saw him swimming.
Before I moved the tank to work on the kitchen I had a cover. I changed to a different tank and didn’t build a cover. I planned to build one once the tank moved back. ... not soon enough.
now the salt tank is animal less. Just water and rock.
... and done.
The ocean revive lights with added moon lights are fully controlled by reef pi!
The little black box is the main controller. It is a raspberry pi zero connected to a pico board from @theatrus. I’m using the built in expansion ports from the pico board over to the larger light expansion box. Inside it is a 16 channel pwm board and 2 channel relay. I have 3 channels per ocean revive, 6 channels total. White, blue, and moon per light fixture.
thanks again @b4tn for the lights!
now I need to figure out how to mount the lights above the tank.
@Bigtrout I finally beat the hair and bush algae in the planted tank. I took every plant out and dipped in 10% bleach. The algae is gone now. And so are the stem plants. the stem plants all melted away over the next week.The bushy plants survived the bleach fine.
Here is how I mounted them. The metal is just 1” steel stock I got from Home Depot and used a u bolt. The stand is 3/4” EMT conduit. I rented a bender from my local hardware store to make the bends.
sweet!!! I’m so glad you got it all working. Did you have to open up the lights at all?
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