Hey!
I have been away from the hobby many years.
Background
The last time I had a tank, it ended badly with a crash.
I am an Engineer and back when I had my first tank(s), I was a lot into DIY automation. My goal was to automate everything including building salinity probes, etc. I was designing PCB boards, buying and soldering all the components by hand, writing the software and web app used to control the system, etc.
Everything was going well, until it was not.
I don't know what happened (possibly a shortcut in a PCB board or a bug in the software) but one of dosing pump started to dump X litters of Soda Ash during the night. When I woke up, everything was dead.
The tank
This time, there won't be any DIY PCB boards. I am building a tank for my home office. I work a lot from here now and I feel privileged to do it to what, one day, I trust will be a beautiful reef.
Equipment
- Tank: Lifeguard 24g crystal aquarium
- Lighting: AI Prime 16HD
- Powerhead: Ecotech MP10mQD
- Return pump: Switched original to SICCER Syncra Silent 0.5
- ATO: Prism Auto Top Off - Reefbreeders
- Filtration: Read Sea Spec Carbon, Filter floss
- Protein Skimmer: None at the moment (since it's my office, I fear the noise it will make and for now I don't need one)
I have been away from the hobby many years.
Background
The last time I had a tank, it ended badly with a crash.
I am an Engineer and back when I had my first tank(s), I was a lot into DIY automation. My goal was to automate everything including building salinity probes, etc. I was designing PCB boards, buying and soldering all the components by hand, writing the software and web app used to control the system, etc.
Everything was going well, until it was not.
I don't know what happened (possibly a shortcut in a PCB board or a bug in the software) but one of dosing pump started to dump X litters of Soda Ash during the night. When I woke up, everything was dead.
The tank
This time, there won't be any DIY PCB boards. I am building a tank for my home office. I work a lot from here now and I feel privileged to do it to what, one day, I trust will be a beautiful reef.
Equipment
- Tank: Lifeguard 24g crystal aquarium
- Lighting: AI Prime 16HD
- Powerhead: Ecotech MP10mQD
- Return pump: Switched original to SICCER Syncra Silent 0.5
- ATO: Prism Auto Top Off - Reefbreeders
- Filtration: Read Sea Spec Carbon, Filter floss
- Protein Skimmer: None at the moment (since it's my office, I fear the noise it will make and for now I don't need one)
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