Recent content by richiev

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...

If you overtightened the bottom nuts, I'd double check the pipes because you probably cracked them. They are very thin at the threads. Also if you're taking that apart, you might end up needing new rubber o rings. Especially if you were overtightening trying to stop a leak. Aquatic collection...

holy shit, that's awesome. I didn't know that existed. That'll fix a bunch of pants I've screwed up!

I didn't even catch that. @Mohan Kanungo is the only filtering you're doing to your water is running it through a brita? Are you adding dechlorinator to that or dumping it straight in? That could be a key issue here, though again I'm surprised the inverts aren't being affected.

Can you share a full tank shot? Definitely something weird. Don't worry about algae or it looking pretty, everyone's tank sometimes looks off. Walking through some things... First, your goby dying is hard to place any real meaning to. Mandarins require a very healthy copepod population or they...

That's one spec'd out fluval! Edit: lol, when I look at the pic more I see even more fanciness on it. Just noticed the apex, after the nero, after the light. I hope you have a hidden secondary sump with a fancy skimmer on it :). I also should've given you one of the mini refugium lights I was...

Correct. My printer isn't big enough to make a long single piece. It's a plastic bonding epoxy I picked up. I printed in PET-G which nothing is supposed to really bond with, but this is holding strong enough to take pressure in my testing. Next time I might just use silicone caulk for all of it...

Stylo or pocillopora is what it looks to be. My guess is pocillopora

Creating a new thread for my new frag tank. This will replace my 30 gallon lagoon with the main desire being a bigger sump which then meant a bigger stand which then meant a bigger tank. I want to have the tank have a bit less crap in it. Starting things off, I built a sump (original sump...