obrien.david.j

I don't know the PAR.  I'll got a meter, will have to break it out.    I'll update in a few days, after I can get it measured.

I'll take the foxface.

PM Sent.

@SuncrestReef Funny you should ask, I was looking at my Walt Disney in its new location just last night.   It was absolutely the right move.  Although it hasn't exploded in growth yet, it has colored up and has a healthier look.   I'm also surprised about the success of the other frags I've put on on the same temporary sand bed frag rock.  

Photos in first post were from Dec 5th.

Photo in this post are from Jan 11th.  Look PC Rainbow exploding.  (main red-ish frag) 

Sounds like multiple are available.   I could use two or three, preferably the 1" size.   @Gumby, get what you need first.   Then I'll see what's left.

Go back in and put a drop of glue or something on that baby Aptasia!

Don't try to visit the north most red dot on this pict.   It's The Reef Box, in Vancouver - and closed, recently.   😞

Good suggestion.  Just turned my needle valve down a bit.  (this has proven itself to be touchy some times)

And for fun, see if you can tell the difference.    I've made a change, my plan is to now let it ride for a day again.   This one will likely be harder to see.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

16 hours ago, SuncrestReef said:

@obrien.david.j Are you not going to do a test with Min Time removed?

Overnight, things look stable.   I wider swings of the Calcium Reactor pH, Solenoid does cycle on/off, but at wider intervals, matching the pH control ranges.   I think I'll leave it alone for another day before touching anything.  (so I can watch Alk too)

Agreed.   I'll likely raise the overall pH setup as a result of this.   I'd like to let this settle out for a day so I can establish a better trend, and let the next study begin.   

Success, and experiment over.   "Set OFF" is the culprit.    Removing it forever from this outlet.

Final Programming I have made:

• Fallback OFF
• If pHCO2 > 6.65 Then ON
• If pHCO2 < 6.45 Then OFF
• Min Time 005:00 Then ON

Thanks for your help today.   It was great to do real time updates, see real time responses, and empirically study impacts.

Success!   

But, which command change generated the desired result?   (removing "Set OFF", or Min Time "ON")   I suspect it's Both.  

time for Experiment #4....  Add "Set OFF" back into the programming.

I originally added the MIN time command after reading Johns tutorial, and how he added it for ATO programming in case the the float switches bounced.    There are time the water line on my CaReactor Burps out Excess CO2 gass.  And I was thinking it could glitch the Solenoid, which isn't good.

BTW, the "Min Time 005:00 Then ON" code is already looking like better results.    But need to let a trend build up.

Here's the results of experiment #1...    Right after posting my question today, I increased the MIN time to 5 minutes.   and I learned something.

New Learning...   Min Time xyx Then OFF...   sets the minimum of time the outlet is OFF.   For some reason I thought it was the min time ON.   

John, Big thanks for flagging the Set OFF command.   It's now Removed.   Also thanks for the datalog interval reminder on the pH.  I'm thinking of doing a limited runtime experiment of logging every minute...  but I know it will chew up datalog memory, and overflow faster.   But I could run for a 30minute window and then restore it.  

Until Then, Experiment #2 programming - running now.  (removed "set", anc changed Min Time to be "ON" for 5mins)

• Fallback OFF
• If pHCO2 > 6.65 Then ON
• If pHCO2 < 6.45 Then OFF
• Min Time 005:00 Then ON

@SuncrestReef and others, I've got a puzzle for you.

My apex is setup to control the CO2 solenoid for my calcium reactor.   It's fed by a dedicated pH probe in the reactor.

Question, Why does it look like the C02 is being cycled on/off.   (every few minutes)    And in this graph specifically, why did it get turned off at all.

Programming:   if pH > 6.65, turn ON, if <6.45 turn OFF.  Min Time is there to insure solenoid doesn't get cycled faster than 1minute intervals.

Graph shows getting turned off, even though it's < 6.65.

PM Sent.   What A Bummer!

My Aptasia eating filefish did a Great job this summer.   And then he turned on my LPS's.   Gave him away last month.   This is his Goodbye Bucket photo.  

I’ve got one urchin, I’ll add a few more.

Waited an hour, Picts of Non-Blue Clove Polyps now upload.

Question - Anyone have any suggestions beyond using Fendendazole?    I had a nice tilefish in the tank from July through December.  First he consumed a few aptasia, and I was hoping he'd move on to clove polyps, but never did.   

And in June 2019 the clove polyps got knocked back, but not eliminated.    As of today, I've got a problem with non-blue clove polyps.     Anyone got any ideas?    I'm about ready for a wider help request on R2R.  

(Hmm, I got a message from the website I can only upload 19.5MB.  Looks like I'll pause before posting pictures of these non-blue CP.)

But in spring of 2019 it looked like they came back.  Confident with my treatment in 2018, in June of 2019 I tried it again.   (Here's a before pict)   But there's a catch - I didn't realize these weren't Blue Clove Polyps....

I successfully killed blue clove polyps using the same method in March 2018.   Here's a before (March 20) and after (April 1) photo.    But there's more to my story...

Looking good.   Have you always had those two Goni frags, or are they new?

I did some work, and started a new thread just about Apex data.   But here's my tank's ORP trend over the last ~2 months.

First cut at my tank data, in one view:

@SuncrestReef and I were in a different thread, that branched into graphing Apex data manually.    I'm starting this thread to continue that discussion cleanly.

Summary:  John pasted an excel graph that he manually created.  I lamented not knowing any automated Apex Datalog Extractor code.  John replied with some links, but none were out of the box solutions.   I decided to just give it a go manually.   

On 1/3/2020 at 2:44 PM, SuncrestReef said:

There are several threads on XML in the Neptune Forums.  I tinkered with it a year ago, but got frustrated and gave up on it.  See:

• https://forum.neptunesystems.com/showthread.php?22148-Accessing-XML-datalog-amp-output-log-using-Microsoft-Office-365-Excel-on-a-Mac
• https://forum.neptunesystems.com/showthread.php?258-XML
• https://forum.neptunesystems.com/showthread.php?223-Quick-Apex-Graphs-using-Google-Chart&p=961

 

I downloaded all datalog and outlogs from my Apex.   Looks like it stored Nov 26, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020 worth of data.     Then manipulated into data I could graph.  Wasn't simple, ran though Excel, then SAS-JMP.  Was complicated by me re-naming my inputs a month ago, and both old and new names were recorded.  

I'll do a walk through of the steps in a post tonight.   And show the results in a second...

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