Tandor69

43 minutes ago, albertareef said:

Today’s the day! Don’t get distracted by all the burger talk in this thread - come join us for pizza, raffles, white elephant exchange and general mayhem instead!

Glad you mentioned the white elephant. I almost forgot.

Woo hoo!

Hmmm... buy awesome frags or buy raffle tickets?

Happy Holidays!!!

Don’t know about Vancouver, but tap plastics in Portland is where I got acrylic for my DIY AIO tank. 

Check out my DIY in tank algae scrubber lol. 🤪

I picked up an ender 3 pro a few weeks ago and I love it! Only wish it had a bigger bed, which the ender 5 does. I've been printing my aquarium stuff that goes in the tank in petg. It's not as strong as abs, but it doesn't warp as easy, and doesn't smell as bad. The computer doesn't matter, you just need a slicer program to create the file. I use cura which I believe is available on mac. I save it in an sd card and put that in the printer to print. If you want to make your own designs you need a 3d design program (cad). I use tinkercad. It is web based and free.

Yup. I have mine set up to email my text message address so I get text alerts. Right now I have it on my temperature and ato reservoir. 

When I someday get a large tank i fully intend to go the full on apex route, trident, auto dosing, auto water change etc (Unless reef-pi catches up to all that stuff before then lol). I didn't intend to build a reef-pi to save money, no matter how much we say it will save money, in this hobby it never does. I just stumbled on the thread on reef2reef and it interested me, so I jumped in and built one. It has been a cool learning experience so far, having a 3D printer helps. I have now built two with equipment control, temperature monitoring and have the stuff to build a third.

I just finished building my first reef-pi and I am digging it so far. If you love DIY it is right up your alley. I had very little electronics experience and learned a lot.

Cool. This will be my first one and it's in Salem! Can't wait!

I have a 5 gallon rimless you can have.

Crappy iPhone pics of the corals I picked up at the fragfest. 

I am so excited! Hope to pick up a bunch of new corals.

Um wow. That would be incredible! 

I will take 1. Mike Kearns

Just now, Kingtriton92 said:

What are the sizes of your tanks?  

Looks really cool. 

20 long with diy all in one filter. Fluval evo 13.5 and a 5 gallon.

I love this view. Water changed, rocks scrubbed. Everything happy. It’s totally worth the work.

1 hour ago, talkalot82 said:

I run all my heaters with controllers and but new ones every year. But I have to order them. My tanks in garage

I have been thinking about doing this. Just replace them all every year just to be safe. Sales like this will help.

Nice! Thanks for the heads up. Scored a couple

I am tempted. I know it’s older model, but will it control the apex dosing pump?

I am interested considering I just spent the last 3 days reading your build thread on reef2reef!

So I have been lurking for a few months, even been to a couple of meetings (I won the ai prime at the April meeting). I figured it was finally time to introduce myself. My name is Mike and I live in Salem. I started with a Fluval 13.5 in January after having freshwater tanks on and off for many years. I soon added a 5 gallon pico reef. I eventually diy’ed an aio 20 long and soon combined it and my Fluval. I am massively addicted and am already planning my next upgrade. I am thinking about a Red Sea reefer or Waterbox. 

Any update on this? Did anyone get their results? I haven't gotten anything yet. Just curious btw, not complaining about a free service.

I have and haven't reused my sand in 2 tank upgrades. First was a five gallon to a 10 and I reused my sand plus added more. Second time was from the 10 to a 20 long and I bought new sand. I would say I had less cloudiness reusing the sand, but the 5 gallon wasn't very old. I didn't have any corals in the 5, but i did in the 10. Just moved them into my fluval for a week until everything settled. Everyone is happy and healthy and a diatom bloom is fading away.