Today, my reef turns one year old, but I can’t really feel the reason to celebrate. If anything, I’ve been really frustrated that my reef isn’t humming along nicely and showcasing beautiful corals that have been growing in over the past twelve months. At nine months, it was looking great and was vivid with color, now it feels almost like I’m starting over. Granted, I’ve been very busy over the past few months ...
Right before my trip to Arizona, I spent Thursday installing the Apex controller on my system, replacing the Aquacontroller 3 that I've had for several years. I prefer never to make a big change before a trip, but the AC3 had to be rebooted internally and I lost connectivity with it. Unable to check on the tank over the web when traveling is bad news, so I gritted my teeth and took the plunge and hoped that I would get lucky this time. What I have is the Apex brain, the display ...
Updated 01-24-2012 at 12:10 AM by melev
Ok, waters have cleared and everything appears to be bouncing back. I took the time this last week to get all the new goodies I recently acquired set up and running on the tank. I'll add some pictures later of the different setups. I added a Vortech Battery backup and installed the wireless expansion chip from EcoTech into my MP10es, making it a MP10wES. I mounted the battery backup in the rear of my stand. In front of the backup, I mounted a 6x6x4 weatherproof ...
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