Recent content by richiev

Can you give examples? Eg as written this effectively means no group buys outside of dry goods? Clean up crews (snails, hermits, urchins), macros, pods, corals, fish, ... all are live; I assume this is really referring to fish and possibly coral? Also maybe a dumb question, but what does this...

I went the hybrid TTM route, though now I'm going to be out of town next week which'll screw all that up. I had my openclaw setup all my calendar reminders and documentation for me :).

5 gallon bucket in place. H2O2 bath followed by transfer. Did the filefish and the clown. Put a small amount of sand in the filter because I didn't have a good stool available to get it out of the display. Also added a small bit of a really old bottle of amquel. Will probably just switch to a...

As others said, I usually try and get mine from high tide.

Get some level of biological filtration in place. I don't like the ammonia smell of uncycled tanks and feel bad for the animals. Prime / amquell can help, but I'd rather not deal with that. Also because I've been planning on incrementally replacing some of my sand, so having a reason to take a...

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...

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...

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...

Nice work!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...