No I would have to feed him, and that might also be considered to be ‘obsessive’ which of course I’m not.....Would it be cheaper and less hassle to pay a bloke to sit there 24hrs a day?
I’ll have a look when I get homeShaun, you get the UltraMarine magazine. Can you tell us if there is anything interesting with the following article in the latest issue?
"This Issue there is a great article by Kenneth Wingerter who explains the benefits of feeding live foods and plankton to your reef, also taking a little look at how you can cultivate yourown live foods at home to feed some of those more finicky eaters and at the same time saving you a little money."
Raising my baby Brine Shrimp is brilliant and easy. If there are other easy ways to get live food then I'm all earsI’ll have a look when I get home
it doesn’t sound very exciting though!!
You guys are having so much fun while I had to go to Japan and Detroit in winter. Good for you !I am off to Barcelona for four days on Saturday!
Mmmm... it is a bit obsessive but a man must have his toys !I installed a camera at the rear of the tank a few weeks ago, primarily so I can see if there are any issues and also if I get any notifications from the leak detector I can double check. Sometimes they can give false alarms if they get even a little moisture near them and it’s now sat on a paper towel to reduce this.
I’ve also got a 59 second defer delay command on the Apex alarm notifications to prevent any alarms from sensor ‘noise’
I’ve also installed a DD temperature controller today as another line of fail safe on the system. Apex gave a false low temperature when I was away, or something odd happened and it turned on the heaters. I did a remote reset and when it came back up it was showing the correct temperature and heaters off. I reported this to Neptune, but it seems to have sorted itself out, but I’m not taking any chances
So for the heating system, I have Eheim heaters with their own thermostats, the DD as primary controller and then Neptune Apex as a final failsafe. Apex leaves the outlet on unless it detects a temperature of over 29c (or whatever I set it at) and then will switch the whole heating system off automatically.
I’ve also put the temperature display at the back of the tank, but can check it with the camera if need be. The camera fully rotates, zooms and goes up and down so I can see anything, calcium reactor etc.
Here’s a few pictures of the leak detector and display
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They need lots of flow, the above is in the new tank, but in the S650 I have several some of which were put in at the same time. Those with high flow are 2-3 x the size of low/medium flow.I know a lot of people have trouble growing Gonipora. I think most people put them on the sand. With mine, I jammed it into a rock face and it has grown beautifully. It encrusts onto the rock, but not like a Montipora does.