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From pics it looks like the power supply is wired with a standard DC jack. I personally use basic DC splitter cables to do this in other situations. Making sure that the total power draw across all things plugged in is within range. I'm not sure what was meant in the other post, and I don't...

I actually would do the other way and be more ambiguous on the banner, and reorder it to emphasize the club over the discount. ----- Sideways Neptune Aquatics. Top (big text): Proud partner of Bay Area Reef club. (Big text) BAR logo Members receive ongoing advice and purchase benefits...

Location is Redwood City. Historically my biggest problem when leaving is my power goes out immediately after we leave, almost every single time. This time around I'll have a battery backup in place (either a house battery or some ecoflow units). I also leave my EV setup with a power adapter in...

I'm going to be out of town for around a month during this summer. I'm looking for tips to maximize the chances my tanks are in a good situation when I return home. I have my Reefer 500 and my frag tank. My original plan was to empty my frags into my display to simplify things, but having...

Are those supports directly connected to beams in some way, or only up against the ceiling? From the pic it looks like the supports are against ceiling drywall, and I'm wondering what the implications are for that doing a good job supporting.

ATO in particular is a good call-out. Unless your ATO turns itself off after running too long, you'd nuke the tank dumping fresh in it. A gravity ATO would for sure do that, though many of the electric ones' timers would kick in and disable them. However then you're not topping off anything...

This relates a to the thread I have going on for my redone frag tank. What's the main reason people say that? In all the modern tanks I've seen, the return section in the pump is sized such that if the drains completely stopped up you wouldn't have enough water in the display to overflow. I'm...

I definitely have had thoughts along these lines multiple times recently.

Correction: the drain lines will be 1in and 3/4in. I misread the test fittings I had. I need to get a new 3/4in (pipe size) bulkhead before I can switch to two drains, so I might try a single durso with the return running through the second overflow bulkhead during the test run. If I can get...

So Herbie overflow, straight down, return over the side on the far side. Works for me, I'll just need to toy with with building the lid to account for that, but that'll be straightforward. Any opinion on main drain as the larger drain versus smaller? Though I just realized maybe which is...

I could use some sump plumbing advice. The drain in the tank is a corner drain. Pics of the sump above, but here's the tank The sump is setup to have the drain on one end and the return on the other. A standard end to end flow. I've considered switching it up to be a horseshoe setup...

That's a great idea. It would some issues I have around figuring out where to properly put my RODI unit. I could stick it in otherwise dead space by the water heater.

Interesting. Remember a long time ago when we all bought some weird slugs because they were going to be the new hot thing in inverts? I don't think they look like that, and mine all completely disappeared, but maybe something like that?

Possible, but on the other hand if you have energy meters on your tank and you're being honest with your taxes, then the possible chance you'd need to send some extra documentation in gets you savings of cash. I wouldn't start trying to deduct rent/mortgage or being silly, but doing electric...

And bring a notebook or spreadsheet so you can record every expense as a business expense on your 2024 taxes. File income based on a couple corals, and then start deducting part of your electric bill and your aquarium expenses.

Bare bottom in a tank that deep seems perilous. My frag tank is bare bottom and gets covered in coraline and vermetid tubes. Not a problem necessarily, but likely won't look like a bare bottom for long and would be very difficult to clean in that deep a tank. I'd go for a sand area personally...

Pocket screws are a classy touch and the totally open front looks convenient. I assume with the ginormous logs being used (are those 4x4?) the length isn't a problem, especially with the bottom rimmed tank. Do you know if the metal brackets are required? I wonder if you could hide the front one.

What's going into the pond? Given you're putting the dragon in a greenhouse, is it in a bioactive enclosure with plants or is that separate?

Post in thread 'DC smart outlet (DIY?)' https://www.bareefers.org/forum/threads/dc-smart-outlet-diy.34598/post-493253 Regarding voltages, I set mine up with a single input, but you could easily do multiple, with multiple power supplies connected. On my main tank I'm running a 24v one and a...

If you're interested, I've built some diy DC power bricks. They can be done pretty cheaply. Most of the cost is the power supply. However you need to have some smart home setup it can connect to. Specifically I used Home Assistant + ESPhome. I mention this specifically because I too was excited...