Hi there !

Reivax · Sep 3, 2016

I don't know enough about tanks but I get help from a friend who knows much more.
I have a small reef tank of 80 liters for a couple years now.

It used to be really nice, until during some vacation a main power failure in my apartment totally ruined it.
I lost shrimps, fishes, and most of my corals.
Since then (over a year), I've been struggling with algae, with ups and downs.

To avoid it happens again, I have designed and built a monitoring device that sends me SMS in case main power fails, or there is light, temperature or water level issues.

My hobbies are scuba diving and snorkeling, 3D design and printing, Arduino stuff, traveling, and doing nothing, too.

Here is a closeup of my tank before the power failure:

aaron23 · Sep 3, 2016

Welcome, sorry to hear about the failure. I live in an apartment too and I can't imagine the power failure. I have a nice sized ups incase of failure my pumps will run for a good 6 hours plus. Very nice pic!

Reivax · Sep 3, 2016

aaron23 said:
Welcome, sorry to hear about the failure. I live in an apartment too and I can't imagine the power failure. I have a nice sized ups incase of failure my pumps will run for a good 6 hours plus. Very nice pic!

Ironically, the failure was due to a small tank I keep to grow small pieces of coral. Some water escaped by capillarity along the skimmer bracket, and fell on the power socket => short circuit => power off...
All this only 23 hours before I came back home.
The lack of water movement was certainly the worse...
I hope this device will help me prevent that from now on: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/m...th-arduino-for-under-100.263945/#post-3148085