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    Am I destroying my "tank is quarantined" stance if I add this clown?

    I think I'm just going to get 2 new 5 gallon buckets and go the hybrid TTM route. Should be fairly straightforward and with my single clown in there shouldn't be too difficult to manage ammonia and such. Full plan: 1. two 5-gallon buckets 2. air bubbler 3. cup of sand from my display...
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    Am I destroying my "tank is quarantined" stance if I add this clown?

    F. Good answers, though certainly not what I was hoping to hear. Maybe I'll take a middle ground and do a round of prazi + a freshwater dip before moving. I just really don't want to setup another tank at the moment and don't have the time to manage the QT tank. I guess the other alternative is...
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    Am I destroying my "tank is quarantined" stance if I add this clown?

    I picked up a clown awhile back from AC. I buy quarantined fish for my display as a rule. However this was a somewhat impulse purchase to replace a clown I lost a long time ago, and driven by my kids and wife being there with me. I've had it in an isolation tank for... maybe 3 months at this...
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    Reefing and AI (Apex debugging)

    Nice work!
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    AI-based Management of Aquarium stuff is crazy cool [Hydros, EcoFlow, ReefBeat, HomeAssistant]

    Is that to me? I was referring to the hydros integration I did was without any API available and isn't dependent on HA. If you're taking it as in regards to the Apex, I don't have a specific comment on that, but if it's accurate that the apex things have a web UI, then without question it'd be...
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    AI-based Management of Aquarium stuff is crazy cool [Hydros, EcoFlow, ReefBeat, HomeAssistant]

    I don't think that limitation is completely accurate. If it has a UI, it has something that can be controlled through automation. The hydros ecosystem has no API, neither read nor write. The integration I did began with openclaw using the UI to reverse engineer the requests the UI made. I had...
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    AI-based Management of Aquarium stuff is crazy cool [Hydros, EcoFlow, ReefBeat, HomeAssistant]

    Regarding the version I did, the AI is producing all the dashboards and code to connect the devices, but the final output is just code running on the devices. There isn't actually an AI invocation in there, because it'd be slow and over time expensive. That being said, I think having some AI...
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    AI-based Management of Aquarium stuff is crazy cool [Hydros, EcoFlow, ReefBeat, HomeAssistant]

    Update on this. It took a lot more prompting, but via opencrawl I now have a full auto water change (AWC) integration implemented in home assistant, leveraging both my Red Sea ATO and my Hydros Blenny. This setup is a bit convoluted because of how I happened to acquire the pieces, but my setup...
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    Polo Reef by Andrew Sandler's nightmare

    Did they say anywhere what happened? I don't know anything about this guy, but the second video seems a bit weird. Does this guy do a lot for the reef community, I assumed it was someone with a lot of $$$ and a home setup.
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    Is this damages from nudibranch?

    That doesn't look like MEN. MEN would start at the edges and be moving inwards. You also would see them when looking at the underside. They're small, but not microscopic. Especially if you look at it underwater you'll clearly see them. Size of rice with wavy fringes. To me that looks more like...
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    AI-based Management of Aquarium stuff is crazy cool [Hydros, EcoFlow, ReefBeat, HomeAssistant]

    Fair, but I meant the equivalent of getting the dashboards setup with text commands, and having it do the install for you
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    AI-based Management of Aquarium stuff is crazy cool [Hydros, EcoFlow, ReefBeat, HomeAssistant]

    If I get ahold of an apex I'll see if I can do the same there. I think these are a lot more accessible than you think. Also the AIs can give you tailored, step by step, guidance on how to do it! The main challenge is getting it access to your local network, but I'm sure someone is building a...
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    AI-based Management of Aquarium stuff is crazy cool [Hydros, EcoFlow, ReefBeat, HomeAssistant]

    I now have AI control of my Hydros! Hydros only allows access through their browser and mobile apps. That's somewhat annoying to me because I can't integrate it with any of my other things at home. Hydros doesn't expose any sort of API for people to use. That however doesn't turn out to be a...
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    AI-based Management of Aquarium stuff is crazy cool [Hydros, EcoFlow, ReefBeat, HomeAssistant]

    I let it go to town on my tank dashboards too. Here's what it came up with: This is way better than the ugly random list I previously had. Also super informative now.
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    AI-based Management of Aquarium stuff is crazy cool [Hydros, EcoFlow, ReefBeat, HomeAssistant]

    I am going further and further down the AI deep end. Folks really need to try all the latest and greatest stuff, it is incredibly powerful right now. Far more than it was before. As an aside, I think the "Something Big Is Happening" post is one of the clearest discussions of what's going on...
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