maxtek
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Hello! This is a brief introduction to my new 75-gallon 1/4 cylinder tank, and an appeal for some advice. The display is on the first floor of my house, and the sump / filtration is in the basement.
I've stocked this with a clownfish, melanarus wrasse, flame angel, a banded coral goby, three firefish, and two chalk basslets, as well as a variety of invertebrates -- two banded coral shrimp, an emerald crab, a slew of turbo snails -- and a number of hardy corals. The rockwork is constructed from pukani dry rock. I have a modest amount of hair algae that I'd like to eradicate. That is appeal #1 -- how best to do this?
Water is testing clear of nitrates, phosphates, with no nitrites, ammonia. dKH is ~11, with calcium at 380 ppm and magnesium is at 1380 ppm. The water reports an ORP of around 350. However, coralline algae is growing incredibly slowly. Appeal #2, how can I accelerate coralline algae growth?
The filtration area consists of a sump with refugium, stocked with chaeto, a skimmer, an algae scrubber, three reactors with bio-pellets, carbon, and a small amount of GFO, and a 20-gallon frag tank that is mostly full of eel-grass at the moment. The eel-grass and chaeto are not growing well. That is appeal #3 -- why, and how can I fix this?
I'm using Neptune Systems products to automate as much as possible. I've written a bit of code to pull data from the Apex and push it into a time-series database for visualization and alerting. As a bonus, I've also written integrations with Google Assistant so that I can trigger feedings and stuff with an "Ok, Google" command. Here's a couple of examples of the dashboards that I use, for fun:
I feel like I'm off to a decent start. Aside from the wrong sort of algae growing, and the right sort of algae not growing, things seem to be going well -- fish seem happy and healthy, corals are growing. Appeal #4: What is it that you've seen here that you would change?
1) How should I handle the hair algae?
2) Why is the eel grass and chaeto not growing?
3) How can I make the corraline algae grow faster?
4) What would you consider changing?
Thanks for reading!
-Max
I've stocked this with a clownfish, melanarus wrasse, flame angel, a banded coral goby, three firefish, and two chalk basslets, as well as a variety of invertebrates -- two banded coral shrimp, an emerald crab, a slew of turbo snails -- and a number of hardy corals. The rockwork is constructed from pukani dry rock. I have a modest amount of hair algae that I'd like to eradicate. That is appeal #1 -- how best to do this?
Water is testing clear of nitrates, phosphates, with no nitrites, ammonia. dKH is ~11, with calcium at 380 ppm and magnesium is at 1380 ppm. The water reports an ORP of around 350. However, coralline algae is growing incredibly slowly. Appeal #2, how can I accelerate coralline algae growth?
The filtration area consists of a sump with refugium, stocked with chaeto, a skimmer, an algae scrubber, three reactors with bio-pellets, carbon, and a small amount of GFO, and a 20-gallon frag tank that is mostly full of eel-grass at the moment. The eel-grass and chaeto are not growing well. That is appeal #3 -- why, and how can I fix this?
I'm using Neptune Systems products to automate as much as possible. I've written a bit of code to pull data from the Apex and push it into a time-series database for visualization and alerting. As a bonus, I've also written integrations with Google Assistant so that I can trigger feedings and stuff with an "Ok, Google" command. Here's a couple of examples of the dashboards that I use, for fun:
I feel like I'm off to a decent start. Aside from the wrong sort of algae growing, and the right sort of algae not growing, things seem to be going well -- fish seem happy and healthy, corals are growing. Appeal #4: What is it that you've seen here that you would change?
1) How should I handle the hair algae?
2) Why is the eel grass and chaeto not growing?
3) How can I make the corraline algae grow faster?
4) What would you consider changing?
Thanks for reading!
-Max
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I haven't started looking at it yet, but presumably you are just scraping it off apex.local and dumping it to a DB or do you have some other way of getting at the data?
