@Fudsey I have a Plank feeder and just recently fiddled with it for the first time. I believe the key is using freeze-dried food. I did not take the pic above but the stuff on top of the pump might be there because the person is not using freeze-dried or it may be detritus entirely from a non fish food source. Placing a small powerhead in the return section may keep any type of fish food, administered automatically into that section, suspended off the substrate until pumped out of that section of the sump.
@Fudsey well now this begs the question, what does freeze-dried mean and why is it such good food? Anybody care to guess?
Since I have a fairly small tank, one feeding of an auto feeder dumps a fair amount of food in the tank. With not much fish to put in the tank due to tank size, a drum rotation of an auto feeder is quite a bit of fish food at one time. This leaves a lot of uneaten food and limits the number of auto feeder feedings per day. With the Plank, at least I’m being told I haven’t experienced yet, you can feed such a small amount of food at a time since the feeding amount is determined by the turning of an auger and not the rotation of a drum. The turning of the auger is controlled by the time in seconds of the auger motor whether powered on and off by a stand alone timer or a switching outlet of a controller channel like on an Apex. This time can be a minute or more or just a few seconds. With tiny amounts per feeding, the number of feedings can be increased thereby greatly decreasing the amount of food wasted. Fish that need frequent feedings like Anthias can greatly benefit from this.
That's a truck! I love trucks!Plan of attack for moving RSR250 stand. My stand has an IKEA cabinet attached to either end of the stand making it longer than the standard Reefer 250 length. This causes a lot of awkwardness when moving. So I drilled holes through the IKEAs, ran a length of steel pipe through the holes, to give me handles to lift the stand with a man on each pipe/handle/corner, giving it handalability to lift and move with ease. Ben Jones has a pickup truck with a hydraulic lift gate. Bottom pic. The gate folds down parallel to the ground and the hydraulic pump lowers it all the way to sit flat on the ground. The four appointed men carry the stand out and set it gently on the gate to be lifted safe and move to my house.
@Jeffcb yeah I’m a pickup driving man myself !!! Trucks have more character with some dings and scratches. The broke-in look.
And insert this fan with control unit right through the front door of cabinet.I have the doors off my RS250 stand for now. First pic: glass cabinet door for the water change & mixing station from Cronos Door shipped across the country.
The “About “ Cronos Design ad.
Thinking about custom designed and built doors for the RS250. Using aluminum mosaic sheet metal (below) with Apex orange acrylic as a backdrop.
I pulled the trigger on the Vecton 200 after finding a US distributor. The Ultraviolet AquaUV is for sale. I also ordered 1" pipe adapter fittings for hard plumbing instead of hose. The pipe adapters become the water inlet and outlet after swapping them out with the hose barbs.Seriously thinking of selling my AquaUV and getting one of these Vectons from the UK. This looks so much nicer to mount and change out bulbs. Not to mention plumbing. Did research on these all evening. Excellent price too !!! The tubular ones from BRS, and I’ve tried two of them, are impossible to mount. If I get this it will be my third attempt at installing a UV and if it doesn’t work I’m giving up on UV’s.
