Any way to set temps based on specific ocean location?

[TCoach]

Is there anyway to automatically set the temperature to correspond to the temps at a specific location? I found a website giving me the high/low/avg temps near Maui, and I’d like to duplicate that in my tank.

Anyway to do that without manually setting each month? (Goal for me is to start working towards home coral spawning.)

Thanks,
-Chris

 

[Lasse]

There is - I have done it with help of Dynamic nominal value. I filled in daily max and min temperature for a location at Sulawesi in Excell. However - the temperature in this location excess 30 degree C - therefore I I use the pattern but with a deviation of -3 degree C - it will not give me a higher nominal value than around 27.7 degree C. Saved as csv file - edited in notepad and imported it into DNV page. It was a bit tricky to get it in but after several attempts - I got it working. I think that you need to do it through a connection with the local P4 web server - not MYGHL. At least I did it that way

My text file look like this - if I remember right and found the right file on my PC . I have chosen 16:00 as the warmest daily temperature and 04:00 as the coldest. Here is the file temperature for the period 15/6-21/6 (the wanted temperatures)

And here is my real aquarium temperature.

It does not follow exactly because water is a rather "sluggish" medium in terms of temperature control. I use a 200 W titan heater for heating and a fan (8 fan type) for cooling. The heater is using the operation mode controller pulse variable - max puls 4 min and paus 30 sec. It make the regulation a bit smother compared with 2 position controller mode

Here you can see how it works a single day. The unit for "värmare" (heater) is minutes and the staples shows the heaters on time

The fan is on 1-10V temperature control with 100% at a deviation of 0.5 degree C. I use a virtual temp probe for the chilling - it is based on the real temp probe for the heater (it mimic it). Its probably works with not using a virtual probe too but in this way I can set a deviation from the dynamic nominal value (decided by the temp file) if I want - but I do not use this feature at the moment


The aquarium is 300 L (app 80 gallon) Hot days like now - the room temperature play a role too.

This is probably only one way you can do in order to have it to work in your own way.

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lasse]

Before you ask - you can use seasonal lighting too

And a advanced moon lighting schedule too

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Nano_Man]

Great idea in the uk they have people doing it under the right conditions lighting temp
They still have groups of people netting the spawn in big nets but the uk can make it happen in aquariums. Also America somewhere they make big concrete blocks with small holes on the side and top and they inject it into the holes and it is covered in an algae which feeds it until growth starts. They are putting these around damaged reefs. Also they did a noise test over a healthy reef and a receded reef and they proved that the spawn settled every time it went over the healthy reef strange but true

 

[dansyr]

BTW for finding that CSV, check out https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ - great resource, little hard to find the data at first but not too bad

 

[TCoach]

Before you ask - you can use seasonal lighting too

And a advanced moon lighting schedule too

Sincerely Lasse

Lasse,

What lights are you using with this schedule? I’m running the Sunpower 8 bulb T5’s with a led blue strip right now. Currently controlling them with a Kasa power strip and have led’s on at 8am, 2 bulbs on at 9, 6 bulbs on at 10 then reverse schedule starting at 7pm.

I’d love to have them controlled by the Profilux and able to adjust on/off time and duration based on seasons.

Thanks,
-Chris

 

[Lasse]

I run GHL Mitras lightbar 2.
2 pcs 120 deep actinic, 1 pcs 120 actinic and 1 pcs 120 deep blue.

IMO - this LED bars combine the all the good things with T5 and LEDs into a super light.

By the way a new lightbar have been introduced - Mitras lightbar 3

Currently controlling them with a Kasa power strip and have led’s on at 8am, 2 bulbs on at 9, 6 bulbs on at 10 then reverse schedule starting at 7pm.

This can been done with a GHL power bar but it will be on/off and seasonal lighting can´t be used. You need a light there it is possible to vary the intensity - either LEDs or a T5 Dimmable Ballast to each bulb. 1-10 V can be handled by P4

The Mitras can be controlled in two ways - spectrum and seamless intensity- This is my daily schedule

With this tool you can also define the spectrum at each time for your Mitras lightbars (if you want) (in GCC)

The Mitras lightbars 2 has an even spread like T5 tubes, use the same RGB trick that some tri phosphorous bulbs use and can be controlled totally like every LED armature. I have not test the new version Lightbar 3 but the seems to be at least as good as the lightbar 2

Sincerely Lasse