Simon - Ocean Free Nano Marine 96L

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Re: Simon - Ocean Free Nano Marine 96L

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Clean Up Crew (CUC) and Fish in Yesterday afternoon. Day 30 12/01/2017

2 X Ocellaris Clownfish :clownfish:
4 X Trochus snail

drip acclimation 20 min floating, 20 min drip

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Current Picture Top 12 Jan 2017
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the clownfish :clownfish: when into hiding under the rock for like 5 min, then came out and looks lite started to eat the copepods/amphipods from the water column.

so hard to take picture of those guys, they are in constant motion.

decrease the flow of the wave maker for now.
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Re: Simon - Ocean Free Nano Marine 96L

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Hi there I have the same tank as yours but when I took off the duck bill nozzle the level of the water in the return pump section dropped, and now the level is too low in the other compartment for my skimmer. Any suggestions?
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Re: Simon - Ocean Free Nano Marine 96L

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Hi Corey123,

i could cannot see your tank journal .... maybe create one and post some pictures.

for mine, what i did was to turn on the pump, and will it until a level i was satisfied with. i wanted to have a gentle waterfall to the last baffle. meaning that the level of last baffle would be slightly lower that the one before it. this way, any evaporation will cause a bigger change of water level in the last baffle, where i have my ATO sensor. thereby making the water level change more sensitive for the ATO sensor, thereby giving me more stable water parameters. this also maximise the amount of water in the system.

this is a picture of the few last baffles. if you look at the back of glass, notice the change of tone of the black, the top of the lighter black is where the water sits when the return pump is off.

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on another note.....

had a power outage today with an ETA for restoration of UNKNOWN on western power's website..... got to fireup the generator!
would have been a much more stressful time if i did not have a generator handy.

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power was out from 12:30 to 3:30ish....
was on generator power from 1:00 to 3:30ish... so ran the generator for around 2h30min.


test auto generated animation by Google Photos
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Re: Simon - Ocean Free Nano Marine 96L

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hi i have the same tank as you at first when you brought it was it really noisy?
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Re: Simon - Ocean Free Nano Marine 96L

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Hi,

which part? the return pump?

yep,.... this is in the top description....

"Stock Aqua Zonic Evo 1300l/h 25W (Very noisy when flow restricted [duck outflow]) (stop using on 21 Dec 2016)"

remove the duck outflow attachment, and it was good after that.
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Re: Simon - Ocean Free Nano Marine 96L

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My First Coral: Long Tentacle Plate Coral (Heliofungia Actiniformis)
Bought 23/04/2017 (Sunday)

did a 1.5 hours drip acclimatisation

in the bag, looks sad
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10-15 min after placing the coral in, middle tentacle are already starting to extend (6:19pm)
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40 min after coral in. (6:51pm)
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1H30min after coral in (7:39pm)
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4H after coral in (10:22pm)
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24H after coral in (5:13pm next day 24th)
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Target Feeding Mysis Shrimp
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Current Picture Front 24 Apr 2017
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AI Prime HD light
change light to 50% 14K 12:00pm to 9pm. 2 hour ramp. RB1% from 11pm to 1am, with lunar option
acclimation set to 50% starting reduction. so 25% 14K. Starting 23 Apr to 30th Apr.
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Re: Simon - Ocean Free Nano Marine 96L

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Forgot to mention,

ended up using a Raspberry Pi to monitor the Temperature of the aquarium.
using ds18b20 temperature sensors.(plastic cap version, so that it does not rust )
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11050

based on HydroPi that i modified a bit to make it do what i want.
https://myhydropi.com/raspberry-pi-pool ... ython-code
https://myhydropi.com/raspberry-pi-pool-monitor-website

there is also the ability to add PH, ORP, Dissolved Oxygen, Conductivity etc using Atlas Scientific sensors later on.
https://www.atlas-scientific.com/kits.html

Integrated my Solar inverter's info into the status page. using the Fronius Primo API.

all logged every minute, and stored into MySql database. data can then be graphed.

data also made available via SNMP, so i am also using my PRTG server to log and graph the data.

no relay connected. have not played with the alerts yet. (i can either do it straight from the pi or via PRTG)

pi with all the temp sensors connected
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main status page ( the State will change to RED if it is too high, or BLUE if it is too low) [no https configured yet]
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graph for last 24 hours
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graph for last 7 days
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pretty cool that you can actually see when the heater turn on, what temp they turn on, what temp they turn off.

p.s sump is for my fresh water aquarium..... not for the marine aquarium, hence why the temperature are different.

Still a work in progress.......
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Re: Simon - Ocean Free Nano Marine 96L

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added a Lawnmower Blenny (Salarias fasciatus)

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also notice lots of white spot growing on the glass. there are quite hard to scrape off.
looking into it further , it looks like they are "Spirorbid Worms"

http://www.melevsreef.com/node/360

apparently they are detrimental to the tank.
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Re: Simon - Ocean Free Nano Marine 96L

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my order of corals from Oceanarium arrived yesterday.
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from left to right

Torch coral-Flouro green yellow tipped (Planula settlement) (Euphyllia glabrescens)
http://www.oceanarium.com.au/item.toy?iid=930030

Branching hammer coral-Fluorescent green (small) (Euphyllia Parra-ancora)
http://www.oceanarium.com.au/item.toy?iid=653819

Birds nest coral-Red stem with green growth tips (Seriatopora hystrix)
http://www.oceanarium.com.au/item.toy?iid=681790

Chalice coral-Bubblegum (Echinophyllia sp)
http://www.oceanarium.com.au/item.toy?iid=528226

looking all sad, just out of the shipping foam dark gloomy box.
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The Next Day
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Torch coral-Flouro green yellow tipped (Planula settlement) (Euphyllia glabrescens)
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Branching hammer coral-Fluorescent green (small) (Euphyllia Parra-ancora)
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Birds nest coral-Red stem with green growth tips (Seriatopora hystrix)
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Chalice coral-Bubblegum (Echinophyllia sp)
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also got
5 X Turbo snails
http://www.oceanarium.com.au/item.toy?iid=653111
Bristleworms
http://www.oceanarium.com.au/item.toy?iid=650075
Mysid shrimps
http://www.oceanarium.com.au/item.toy?iid=653555

Current Picture Front 3 May 2017
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Current Water Chemistry: 1 May 2017
ASW: Blue Treasure SPS Sea salt
Ammonia NH3: 0
Nitrite NO2: 0
Nitrates NO3: 5 Salifert, 0 API
Phosphates PO4: 0.00 Hanna
Calcium Ca: 430 Salifert
Alkalinity KH: 7.7 Salifert
Magnesuim MG: 1350 Salifert
Salinity / Specific Gravity: / 1.025
PH: 8.0 Salifert , API 8.3
Temp: 26.0


Fed a mixture of Reef-Roids and Ocean NutritionCyclops

Reef-Roids instructions says
1 teaspoon, per 100Gal (378.54L)
1 teaspoon of Reef-Roids = ~2.14g
for 70L, 0.39g of reef-roids
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Re: Simon - Ocean Free Nano Marine 96L

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enjoying the progress of this build, keep it going!
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