summoner12
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Since I have two EcoZone controllers I've decided that since one of them only controls lights on one setup that has no chameleon in it (cham relocated to different free range). Since I have been working on a very small reef tank project, I thought i'd use it for that. The EcoZone duties will be to maintain water level (called an ATO - auto top off in the awuarium world), water temp, sun rise/set (using a Rapid LED dimmable PAR36) and a dimmable moon LED light that will follow actual lunar cycles.
A brief run down of the equipment...
A bit of back ground....
The Picotope aquarium is a 3 gallon tank that comes with a small filter and a simple 9w light. There are a lot of mods people have done with these tanks. I have done away with all that comes with the tank, aside from the tank. I painted the back black to cover up the wires and filter. I have built into the tank a surface skimmer/overflow. This removes any water surface debris and allows for the ATO to work. As water evaporates the water level in the overflow will change and the tank water level is always maintained. Inside my overflow I have a Mini-Jet 606 that I call a 'power hole'. It takes water from the overflow and shoots it out of the overflow to circulate water within the tank. Normally you would use a 'power head' but I don't have room for that, so I dubbed mine the 'power hole' since it is just a hole in the overflow. The AC70 is a very large filter for this size of tank, but I had it on hand and it's never a bad thing to have a lot of filtration. This filter has a media basket in it that is made by InTank.
Here is the current status of the tank:
Here are some pics of the build...
Mocking things up (yes, the filter is dirty lol)
I had to break a bit of the rock to make it fit....
I used a plastic bonding epoxy to fill in the gap between the filter and overflow.
Side view of the setup..
I made shallow holes in the side of the overflow wall to secure the heater to the wall.
These are my two other tanks:
My 12g JBJ Nano Cube. This tank currently has a red slime algae issue... You can see it in this photo as it is before i removed most of the offending slime. I've had to keep my grow light on 24/7 to combat the slime... currently it's been starting to win as you don't see that much slime in my tank anymore.
Sun Coral, is not photosynthetic, has to be fed a couple of times a week:
Seat Cucumber, it filter feeds aka cleans the water lol
some Zoa's:
My Clown thinks these star polyps is an anemone:
This is my 29 gallon tank with a 5.5 gallon sump. It is located at my GF's school inher science lab. We don't have the room for it at home and her 'teacher cool factor' is up 10 fold with a reef tank in the class room.
A brief run down of the equipment...
- EcoZone Vivarium Controller
- JBJ Picotope
- AC70
- AC70 InTank media basket (older version)
- Maxi-Jet 606
- RapidLED Par36 60* (Mixed color with UV)
- Toms AquaLifter for (ATO)
- Hydor Theo heater
- Black sand
- One 5lb LR
A bit of back ground....
The Picotope aquarium is a 3 gallon tank that comes with a small filter and a simple 9w light. There are a lot of mods people have done with these tanks. I have done away with all that comes with the tank, aside from the tank. I painted the back black to cover up the wires and filter. I have built into the tank a surface skimmer/overflow. This removes any water surface debris and allows for the ATO to work. As water evaporates the water level in the overflow will change and the tank water level is always maintained. Inside my overflow I have a Mini-Jet 606 that I call a 'power hole'. It takes water from the overflow and shoots it out of the overflow to circulate water within the tank. Normally you would use a 'power head' but I don't have room for that, so I dubbed mine the 'power hole' since it is just a hole in the overflow. The AC70 is a very large filter for this size of tank, but I had it on hand and it's never a bad thing to have a lot of filtration. This filter has a media basket in it that is made by InTank.
Here is the current status of the tank:
Here are some pics of the build...
Mocking things up (yes, the filter is dirty lol)
I had to break a bit of the rock to make it fit....
I used a plastic bonding epoxy to fill in the gap between the filter and overflow.
Side view of the setup..
I made shallow holes in the side of the overflow wall to secure the heater to the wall.
These are my two other tanks:
My 12g JBJ Nano Cube. This tank currently has a red slime algae issue... You can see it in this photo as it is before i removed most of the offending slime. I've had to keep my grow light on 24/7 to combat the slime... currently it's been starting to win as you don't see that much slime in my tank anymore.
Sun Coral, is not photosynthetic, has to be fed a couple of times a week:
Seat Cucumber, it filter feeds aka cleans the water lol
some Zoa's:
My Clown thinks these star polyps is an anemone:
This is my 29 gallon tank with a 5.5 gallon sump. It is located at my GF's school inher science lab. We don't have the room for it at home and her 'teacher cool factor' is up 10 fold with a reef tank in the class room.
