Introduction to my new setup

[HarryB]

Hi everyone, here's my new 6 x 2 x 2 setup. Im running;

• Biopro 2200 l/hour external canister filter a
• 250w eheim jager heater
• Sunsun 6000 l/hour powerhead
• Led strip lighting run by a TC420 controller which is programmed to approximately a sine wave for sunrise and sunset. The controller works great but I think the 'cool blue' leds are too blue so I'll probably add a warm white strip too balance it out a bit.

Current inhabitants are;

• 10 x labidochromis caeruleus
• 4 x Yellow tail Acei Msuli point
• 2 x Acei Tanzania (I think, I'll try and get a photo and upload)
• 5 x Synodontis Petricola

 

[Link2Hell]

nice tank scape and fish 

[Buccal]

Yes,, very nice and natural to.

[boonahsider]

Great set up! Love those Big rocks Where did you get them?

[HarryB]

Thanks guys.

boonahsider, I got the rocks for free on gumtree. They were used for garden landscaping so it took a lot of scrubbing and boiling water before they could go in the tank. It was worth it though.

[HarryB]

A bit of a tank update. I've been working on making a simple aquarium monitor using a raspberry pi 3. I've currently got it setup to record tank temperature and aquarium room temperature and send that online to thingspeak which logs the data to a graph. All seems to be working now so I can view my aquarium temperature and see how the temperature trends for example what happens on a cold winter night. Im planning to add pH and water level. You can view the graphs here; https://thingspeak.com/channels/110137

[mjoconr]

Cool, one wire sensors, the issue with PH and other is the isolation that is needed. Would be very nice if there where PH one wire sensors at a good price.

mmm just did a search, there actually might be cost effective units. Will have to spent some time searching and reading.

[PlecoSam]

Problem with cheap PH probes is they drift rather badly.

 

[Spuznik]

If you are going to monitor PH  I would strongly recommend this unit: https://www.atlas-scientific.com/product_pages/kits/ph-kit.html

with the Power ISO: https://www.atlas-scientific.com/product_pages/circuits/pwr-iso.html

I use this and have it connected to my Arduino mega with great results.

 

Regards,

 

Tim

[HarryB]

Thanks Spuznik. Thats the one I was looking at. Its great to get some feedback on it. Have you found the need to recalibrate often?

[Spuznik]

Not very often. I did have issues until I included the power ISO unit as I was getting stray voltage from the pumps in my sump.
But this was only causing issues getting an accurate reading.

The calibration commands and the solutions make it easy work. I have mine setup with a menu and everything so I just have to select the range to calibrate against and 2 minutes later it's done. I calibrate once every 6 months and test calibration with the other solutions eg calibrate with 7.00ph and then put the probe in the 4.0 and 10.0.