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Started setting up the dashboard that will run on the iPad mounted on the cabinet - It needs real data obviously but you get the idea of what sort of thing the iPad will be running At first it will just be Temperature, PH and which sockets are powered o But the end plan will show: Temp & PH...

Absolutely - sadly Ive came to realise Trevor does very little throughout the day yet seems to look exhausted when its bedtime. Saturday is the big build day so either ill be posting some lovely photos of a raspberry pi managed aquarium or there will be some sort of electrical incident and ill...

Ive found the forum full of knowledgeable people happy to help. As always though make sure you double check stuff on the internet if your not sure. Just take it slow and ask lots of questions

Agree with the previous post - i looked into the python and although its pretty cool out doesn’t give you much chance to add the conditoners. Much better IMHO to use a big water barrel and some small pumps

ive got a 450litre 5 ft tank and use 1 external Eheim that does 1000 LPH. The intake is on one end of the tank and the out spray bar sits on the other. I also have 2 cheap powerheads ( one either end) to agitate the water a bit - since adding it the fish are a lot more active. With the current...

Mmm thanks ill maybe try increasing it... rather than 70% i might try a 45% on say Friday then my normal 30% on Monday. I’m also looking at plumbing in some sort of auto change system like the Picture so i just have to throw in a tube to empty 30% that goes straight into the drain and then...

Yup all you can do is give out your best. How about a piece of old mesh or tights over the intake end tied with a cable tie. Ive read a few people the past few days saying they do 70% weekly. Am i not doing enough then only doing 30% a week. I think I’d struggle doing 70% tbh on a 450l tank

The order of layers and is what i do is: Mechanical media first to take the initial flow and remove big particles ( filter wool ) Then Bio media that holds the bio mass - it mustn’t become clogged ( bio balls ) Then if you use and as the previous post said be carefull, and it must be used after...

Strangely I had a similar thing in my old 100l tank - everything was peachy, i added a nice piece of bogwood from my LFS and kept it soaking for a week or so before i added it. All of a sudden the ammonia spiked and just couldn’t get it down. I removed the wood, did a huge water change on the...

What are you testing for can i ask and with what brand of tests? Im not the best at reading the colours and found some brands just aren’t accurate. Make sure you cover the basics as well - is the filter blocked? is there a dead fish or something jammed in the intake? are you testing for the...

Forget to mention filtration - When i asked this question on another forum it kicked off a huge row and i wished I hadn’t asked. There seems to be a lot of different views ranging from x2 the tank volume per hour to x10 My tank is 450l so if I went for the x10 I’d need another 3 external...

70% seems very high for a water change - if your doing it weekly 20-30% is fine. Algae gets a foothold due to high nutrients / lighting and low water flow so reduce the feeding, cut down on the lighting regime and make sure you have good water flow even if it means buying a cheap power head ( i...

Hi I kept about 7 Mbunas in my 100l 2ft tank whilst they were still juvenile and before i got my 5ft tank. Plants seem to be okay and ive met a few people at my LFS who have a full on planted tank - personally ive gone more on the rocks and caves with a few Plastic plants. There’s plenty of...

When i do a water change ( 145 litres ) i fill up my trust dustbin, add the tap safe and any other buffers im using. Drop in my heater to get it up to temperatuse ( usually 2 hours ) and run a power head pointing at the surface just to aerate it and give it a bit of life. Then throw it...

Make sure your recording the test results - even if its in a notebook or excel spreadsheet. It doesn’t need to be a fancy app. When you see the results in a graph you’ll get a better idea of what is happening

If the ammonia and nitrite and spiked and then dropped to zero with a corresponding spike in nitrate then your cycle is done ? Do a light (20-25%) water change to replenish some of your trace elements and give it a bit of a gentle clean. Add some livestock but very slowly, if you add to much...

Kohl in - yeah usually cycle threads are a hotbed of replies. I’m going to take a stab at it and wait for the flaming. The LFS was expecting the live rock to have a bacteria colony present so when the ammonia built up the bacteria would convert to nitrite and then to nitrate at which point you...

If anyone is interested in having a stab themselves I‘ve made the following for fellow forum members : 1) An Amazon shopping list that covers 100% of the items you need. 2) A GitHub repository for the Python code 3) A login you can use and copy the various dashboard for the graphs and...

It is confusing especially on forums as everyone has their own opinion. Find something that works and stick to it. ive got a little book where I write everything down and if someone gives you advice about parameters or something use google to confirm it

I didn’t see the post that this stemmed from though.. however if we consider the things going on in the world, the amount of people and families in poverty and some of the awful news we hear about on tv - arguing and getting wound up about guppies seems a bit petty?

a lot of people use either aquatic log or aquarimate

As far as I’m aware there aren’t too many apps with general info on, your better off just using the web and searching any specific info you need. If you think about it any app will just have the same info in. there are a few species catalogues though if that’s what you need. in terms of tank...

General info about fish keeping or apps for aquarium management?

As a new member of the site I haven’t seen a great deal of really ‘cross the line‘ hostility. Ive yet to post in a forum that doesn’t have a group of members who will actively seek out posts and be quite negative if you have an opinion that differs from theirs. As a newbie you post and cross...

Also if you really like a certain type of fish then you can adjust the water at the start and for any subsequent water change. So ive had a brackish tank, cichlids / discus etc and they all require water that is way different to what comes out of my tap. I use treatments and research my decor...

its the number of tests completed so Total Hardness , measured in Mg/l low mid and high values. The end column is the number of tests completed. So basically the water company goes out throughout the year and takes samples of the water and runs all those tests. The 444 on the Hardness(Total)...

On the subject of lights - ive literally just bought some cheap LED strips with the little remote. Slide them into a long plastic waterproof tube and plug in. You can then get your cycles and dimming function remotely. They work alongside my main big leds and compliment them nicely

Cichlids here so i do 30 - 40 a week and similar timings but go Daylight> Moonlight > Weird Blue / Green colour > All off. Total Hardness 444 tests?

That’s good info for you +1 on it all...you can make life a bit easier by putting lights on timers and using brightness setting to ease the fishes into each cycle of lighting.. With the water there are websites for each water company where you can enter your postcode and it will give you info...

Thanks, the main thing for me is buying a full on Profilux or Neptune would be a bit of a waste ATM and the Reef Pi is cool but i really don’t like the dashboard. All i do all day is play round on things like Azure and Influx so it should look pretty cool. The whole control centre bit under the...

Thanks that’s really kind

It’s all good - sand / gravel is the way to go. Just a bit of work when you do your water changes to give it a quick vacuum to get any uneaten food off.

Trevor is awesome - he literally gets involved in everything