I vacation quite a bit. I do realize my beloved fishies would survive just fine on pellet food from my AFS, but I'd love to be able to feed them something better in addition to pellet food. I mean, if I'm eating well on vacation, shouldn't they eat like little kings as well?
My fish love the Nyos Goldpods, which is a liquid copepod mixture. The Goldpods are pretty tiny, and they seem to stay suspended without any stirring. That made me think the liquid pods could make it through some RODI tubing and be dosed into the tank.
I didn't really want to use both heads of a DOS, so I figured it might be fun to design something with 2 Solenoids. While it was a success, it would have been WAY easier if I had just skipped the solenoids and used both of the DOS to accomplish the same thing (but way more costly)
(ABOVE): The concept
(ABOVE): Actual execution (note that the bottle in the fridge didn't have Goldpods in it yet, I was testing things with RODI when I took this photo). The fridge is a cheap $19 Frigidair and the Hefty container has the RODI in it.
(ABOVE): A quick 1 min video of the thing in action on the first run.
Now, I am NOT a Neptune Apex programming Guru. I spent about 3 days coming up with the programming. The lack of any sort of programming timer made things VERY complicated. I ended up having to create 7 virtual outlets to accomplish this and 3 profiles. I'm certain an Apex Guru could consolidate this somehow, but this does work as it is programmed, and I'm done messing around with the programming.
PROFILES:
OUTLETS:
My fish love the Nyos Goldpods, which is a liquid copepod mixture. The Goldpods are pretty tiny, and they seem to stay suspended without any stirring. That made me think the liquid pods could make it through some RODI tubing and be dosed into the tank.
I didn't really want to use both heads of a DOS, so I figured it might be fun to design something with 2 Solenoids. While it was a success, it would have been WAY easier if I had just skipped the solenoids and used both of the DOS to accomplish the same thing (but way more costly)
(ABOVE): The concept
(ABOVE): Actual execution (note that the bottle in the fridge didn't have Goldpods in it yet, I was testing things with RODI when I took this photo). The fridge is a cheap $19 Frigidair and the Hefty container has the RODI in it.
(ABOVE): A quick 1 min video of the thing in action on the first run.
Now, I am NOT a Neptune Apex programming Guru. I spent about 3 days coming up with the programming. The lack of any sort of programming timer made things VERY complicated. I ended up having to create 7 virtual outlets to accomplish this and 3 profiles. I'm certain an Apex Guru could consolidate this somehow, but this does work as it is programmed, and I'm done messing around with the programming.
PROFILES:
- "DOS2-Step1" = Advance 7.5mL
- "DOS2-Step2" = Advance 60mL
- "DOS2-Step3" = Reverse 6mL
OUTLETS:
- "SolA" (the one that flows from the refrigerator)
Set OFF
Fallback OFF
If Output VR-LqFStp1ON = ON Then ON
If Output VR-LqFStp1OF = ON Then OFF
If Output VR-LqFStp3ON = ON Then ON
If Output VR-LqFStp3OF = ON Then OFF - "SolB" (the one that flows from the RODI)
Set OFF
Fallback OFF
If Output VR-LqFStp2ON = ON Then ON
If Output VR-LqFStp2OF = ON Then OFF - "VR_LiqFeed" (the outlet I use to control the feeding)
Set OFF
Fallback OFF
If FeedC 000 Then ON
Defer 001:30 Then OFF - "VR-LqFd-Step1ON"
Set OFF
Fallback OFF
If Output VR_Liq-Feed = ON Then ON - "VR-LqFd-Step1OFF"
Set OFF
Fallback OFF
If Output VR_Liq-Feed = ON Then ON
Defer 000:30 Then ON - "VR-LqFd-Step2ON"
Set OFF
Fallback OFF
If Output VR_Liq-Feed = ON Then ON
Defer 000:30 Then ON - "VR-LqFd-Step2OFF"
Set OFF
Fallback OFF
If Output VR_Liq-Feed = ON Then ON
Defer 001:00 Then ON - "VR-LqFd-Step3ON"
Set OFF
Fallback OFF
If Output VR_Liq-Feed = ON Then ON
Defer 001:00 Then ON - "VR-LqFd-Step3OFF"
Set OFF
Fallback OFF
If Output VR_Liq-Feed = ON Then ON
Defer 001:30 Then ON - "DOS2-left"
Set OFF
Fallback OFF
If Output VR-LqFStp1ON = ON Then DOS2-step1
If Output VR-LqFStp2ON = ON Then DOS2-step2
If Output VR-LqFStp3ON = ON Then DOS2-step3