thetedinator's As-built 240g System

[thetedinator]

Thanks Freddie.

 

[karo25]

What a beautiful and active tank. I would never leave my house! So much to see ;Jawdrop

 

[293482398]

Love the videos and photos, can't believe I've missed most of this thread. Beautiful tank.

 

[thetedinator]

Love the videos and photos, can't believe I've missed most of this thread. Beautiful tank.

Thanks.

 

[thetedinator]

Some top down macro photographs from yesterday. Corals seem to be doing ok. Shot under Radions set at 14k and white balance corrected in camera.

Blue and Green Ricordia yuma


JF Flame


JF Frankies Kryptonite


ORA Laura's Purple Polyp


3G Tort


ORA Jedi Mind Trick


Miyagi Tort


ORA Ice Tort

 

[thetedinator]

Another update. I decided to get off of my lazy butt and put some light under my tank. I had been getting by with a flashlight when I needed more light. I upgraded my Apex to the 2016 version and have several EB 832's so I decide to use a 1Link port to power the light. So...

I picked up a 12v-24v LED Light Bar from Amazon. Did some soldering, mounting and wiring and now I have light under my tank at the flip of a switch.

I had an on/off toggle switch waiting to be useful. Here is the switch temporarily mounted on wood (ghetto I know but temporary, I am waiting on a project box). The wood is mounted to my 8020 T-Slot stand.

I already had a DC24 to Bare Wire cable (from another experiment that did not work out) so I wired that up the the light bar and mounted it to a piece of wood.

Next, I mounted the light bar under the tank. The second piece of wood is attached to a side panel for rigidity.

Here is the light bar turned on.

Finally, here is the sump light up.

I like this so much that I ordered another LED light bar to install on the right side of the tank. That shop light in the last photo is now gone. I used that to check some of the wiring as well as my Apex code.

 

[thetedinator]

A five second video from last night starring two of my three Coral Beauty Angels. There is a cameo at the end by one of my Banggai Cardinalfish.

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[thetedinator]

Pics from today.

Orange and blue Ricordia yuma


Rose BTA with Clownfish


Starry Blenny resting in Clavularia

 

[GoVols]

Ted,
Your new sump led's and all other post are super nice.

It's always a joy to see your build... :)

 

[thetedinator]

Thanks Freddie. Too bad about your Gold Flake angel. My favorite fish.

 

[hatfielj]

Jealous of that Tesla battery system! Do you have solar panels too? That's my goal someday. Nice tank too;)

 

[GoVols]

Thanks Freddie. Too bad about your Gold Flake angel. My favorite fish.

Ted,
It was my wife's favorite of all time too. They sure are beautiful fish on the outside and loved it's laid back personality too.
Thanks for the thoughts and it was the first Goldflake that we ever had.

I can sure see why it's your avi... :)

 

[thetedinator]

Jealous of that Tesla battery system! Do you have solar panels too? That's my goal someday. Nice tank too;)

Yes I have panels. Panels power the house, charge the batteries and still push power to the grid.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Yes I have panels. Panels power the house, charge the batteries and still push power to the grid.

Hey bro how is your tank doing?

 

[thetedinator]

I had (notice the past tense) the 240g tank in my living room with equipment supporting the tank in the stand and in my home office. The equipment in the home office included the top-off reservoir. The top-off reservoir was connected to my Spectrapure RO/DI system located in my garage and the entire system was managed using an Apex controller.

In 2019 I had two flooding incidents in my home office. The first time, I used my home owners insurance to pay for fixing the damage to my house. The second time I had to foot the bill myself. I had retired in 2018 and paying to clean up the mess and fix things really hurt my wallet. It was at that point I decided to take the system down. I sold the system to a local aquarium maintenance company who came in and caught the livestock, emptied the tank, tore the stand down and took it away.

Taking the system down was painful. On the one hand I no longer worried about flooding my house. On the other hand, I missed the system and the pleasure it brought. It took more than a minute before I could bring myself to peruse threads here, watch videos on YouTube, or watch 'Blue Planet' like documentaries.

As many know, Reefing is an addiction, avoiding temptation is difficult and step 13 in the 12 step program is admitting to yourself that the previous 12 steps are crap and the only cure for the addiction is setting up another system.

Keep reefing.

ps, Goldflake Angelfish are still my favorite fish.