What happened to bean animal online?

Matt Carden · Sep 5, 2019

I started trying to research bean animal because out of necessity I can rework my 150 to incorporate a bean animal instead of the herbie that it came with. I can't find anything on RC or I believe Melev's may have had a write up too. This link doesn't work anymore: http://www.beananimal.com/projects/silent-and-fail-safe-aquarium-overflow-system.aspx
I think it may be some kind of legal issue? Anyone hear anything?

This thread is more to discuss what happened to bean animal but I do still have some unanswered questions and others may also.

aqua_code · Sep 5, 2019

Looks like they are going through website updates

Matt Carden · Sep 5, 2019

That's a reef central link I believe

Matt Carden · Sep 6, 2019

Matt Carden · Jan 21, 2020

@zalick just posted a link to the original bean animal article. https://web.archive.org/web/2019010...t-and-fail-safe-aquarium-overflow-system.aspx

I still don't know what happened to his website but my theory is that Marine depot bought him out because if you search for bean animal a Marine Depot link about the bean animal pops up.

lapin · Jan 21, 2020

The name is not for sale so who knows......
The web site is not available. Ip lookup gives this.

Results for 184.168.221.94

Hostname	www.beananimal.com
IP	184.168.221.94
Domain	beananimal.com
Organization	GoDaddy.com, LLC
Location	Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

W1ngz · Jan 21, 2020

Code:

NOTICE: This domain name expired on 1/7/2020 and is pending renewal or deletion.

User1 · Jan 21, 2020

RC has probably the best single thread with regards to Bean Animal, posts with people asking for help, tuning it, and other things like that. His web sight was a good source for the parts and photos so you could build a shopping list. The problems with most BA threads is that at the end of the day it is black and white. You follow the design as he laid out, it is a BA. If you change anything - it isn't and therefore not guaranteed to perform as such.

I know this isn't what you asked but you can search / cache and find it. Other than that RC is the best source 9 out of 10 times.