Camilsky's 45g. Nano Cube

Yet another small update: Side-view photo of purple Montipora.

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Enjoy!

 

SN400 sulfur nitrate reactor update (DAY6):
Tank nitrates: ~ 6 mg/ml
Reactor : ~ 2 mg/ml
Effluent pH : ~ 8.1
Flow : 1 drop/sec (around 0.2 gph)

Tank water:
Temp: 79.5F
pH: 8.3
NH3: 0.0
NO2: 0.0
NO3: 6.0
PO4: 0.0
KH: 11
Mg: 1400
Ca: 480
All inhabitants looking good and healthy. Only, my Turbinaria reniformis (yellow) is still adjusting to T5 lights. It's not fully yellow yet.

 

Looks awesome.....

 

SN400 sulfur nitrate reactor update (DAY8):
Tank nitrates: ~ 5 mg/ml
Reactor : ~ 0 mg/ml
Effluent pH : ~ 7.7
Flow : 3 drop/sec
Effluent level Ca: 650 ppm (slightly cloudy)

Finally! Nitrate reactor has been populated with desired anaerobic bacteria! Moreover, it seems I need to change the sulfur/hydrocarobnite ratio in reaction chambers. I plan to use 1:4 ratio. Ca levels of effluent are quite high, just at the limit of Ca solubility at given temp and pH (cloudy water). Technically speaking my reactor is working like kalk-reactor! Life is good!

 

Small photo update:

An old colony (from my previous 75 gal) of green polyps.

Test of new moonlight system. Image blurring is caused by bowed front glass of my tank :/

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Enjoy!

 

Yet another update! I've ordered new lights -> Aqua-Medic Ocean Light 150 +. It's a MH system with one 13000K 150W bulb + 2x24W 20000K T5 actinics! The package will arrive next week! I can't wait!

 

nice man, that will definitely brighten things up

 

SN400 sulfur nitrate reactor update (DAY19):
Tank nitrates: ~ 8 mg/ml
Reactor : ~ 0 mg/ml
Effluent pH : ~ 7.8
Flow : 1 drop/sec (around 0.2 gph)

Finally! My nitrates are going down! I'm still waiting for my MH fixture

 

I love your tank Camilsky , I keep track of what your doing and I am doing a similar setup .

 

Hey! Thanks! I'm actually busy with my DIY aquatic computer. I have to admit I truly enjoy this project. It's made of:

1. Tecpel 870 pH/temp monitor with RS232 port.

2. 3 x an itelligent advanced surge protector with unique features: 4 sockets are manageable from the PC via USB port.

3. 3 x 20gph micro-pumps converted to dosage pumps.

4. An old, decommissioned PC (Dual Core P4 2.8Ghz with 2GB of RAM) running Fedora Core 8 with Python 2.6. everything is controlled via software written by me in Python with pySerial extension to communicate with serial ports.

System functions:
1. Real time control/monitoring of temperature including emergency >83F metal halide shut-down.

2. pH monitoring and control - using one of the connected pumps, that is capable of slowly adding concentrated Ree Buffer by Seachem until desired -> 8.3 pH is restored.

3. Full light control including simulated moon cycle calculation.

4. Experimental wave maker function with minimum 1 min. operation time. All sorts of modes are programmed including night program and random wave generation. I'm using one of the tunze stream pumps that can be easily switched on- off-. This function doesn't work with Koralia 12V pumps.

To DOs:
- post photos for Luna

- I'm waiting for the second meter -> Tecpel ORP meter with Aqua-Medic short ORP electrode for my SN400 nitrate reactor. In order to achieve optimal denitration, SN400 is connected to very low-flow pump. Water flows through the reactor only if the ORP in the reactor is below -150 / -200 mV, which indicates very strong anaerobic reduction.

- inspired by very neat Otty's banner with tank parameters I'm working on a small extension written in PIL (python image library)

- I'm retouching the code of whole DIY computer, so people could try it, and maybe save some $$$

- I'm working on my new website, from which I plan to control whole system

MORE INFO/PHOTOS COMING SOON! STAY TUNED!

TOTAL COST OF PROJECT (EXCLUDING TIME AND OLD PC):
pumps 3x50gph (micro circulation pumps) ~ 15 EURO
pH meter ~ 75 EURO
3 x POWER OUTLETS ~ 90 EURO
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+ 180 EURO =~ 230 $

Life is good!