I have not been so active here for a short period but it has been as they say - life happens. I´m sorry to say that I have of some reasons lost my banded pipe fish. It just get shy and disappeared a couple of days later. It has been with me for more than 2 years - sad. The corals seems to feel better, I can see growth on most of them and the clams - they just grow and grow and.....
During this time - I have worked with my new cabinet and it is mostly up and running now. There is some things that will add later as a possibility to run some of the Jebao pumps on 1-10 V from the computer.
This is my switch set up for the moment
The main idea is that I should be able to switch on or off every single equipment I run
Before I did this re build - I had around 20 different power adapters hanging around in my sump cabinet, in a moist and warm environment. All of my computer equipment was there to. Now everything is situated in a dry environment and a fan make it cooler.
From the cabinet
Some random pictures of details
This probe is the air temperature/humidity probe
From the sump cabinet
Kolkälla = Carbon source -> in this case pure ethanol. I use it below the DSB for denitrification
From my probes early in the morning, light just on
The salinity shows 33 PSU but there is some indications that it shows around 2 PSU too low. I use it as a relative source, not as a an absolute. The pH is in this morning - here is last 24 hours
I dose Triton 3a+3b between 22:00 and 12:00 - therefore the sawtooth pattern during night
My dosing regime.
Pump 13-16 are pumps that I use in a virtual way. p13 is the base for my dose of Triton Core 7 3a+3b. It is combined with a timer in a Programming logic slot and manage my switch 64. my real core 7 3a+3b pump is number 3 and it is programmed to react on index 64 (switch 64)
The flowrate of both the virtual and the real is the same (9 ml/minute) - therefor will the fill lewel be the right one for pump 3. however daily and days left will not be calculated - but I can live with that.
Pump 15 is connected to my top of pump an react to the switch that manage this pump (index 5 in my case) In this way I can know how much top of I use and how much is left. I have a larger dosing pump that is my top off pump and I have calibrate it - the virtual pump give me a good picture of how much Top Off water is left
Pump 16 is connected to the switch responsible for the flow through my DSB.
The flow is much higher than the program admit but I did a calibration that show that my pump give me 660 ml/minute. I put in 66 ml/minute and after that use a teen factor in my calculations. if I want a dose of 800 ml - I fill 80 ml and if I read a daily dose of 11520 ml/day - I know that it is 10 times higher - around 115 l/day
That´s all for this day
Sincerely Lasse
Observe - you do not need all of these technical equipment's in order to have a good reef tank - but it is very funny to be a technical nerd sometimes

and play the whole deck of cards