Aug 16th 09
Trying out
Martin Moe's techniques for remembering when you are doing a water change. I'll have to try the Coffee cup around the neck and film container on a string around the ear. The duct tape wasn't noticeable enough, I still almost overflowed the sump.

Installed a linear air pump today. I've used it for about a year on various algae culturing and fish related projects. I forgot to take a picture of it, but it looks like:
35 watts.

Here's my first air manifold. The Valves are from Florida Aqua Farms. If I recall correctly, the brass ones are $1.70, plastic $0.90. I thought I'd try both. The Brass ones are harder to thread into the pipe, but are much nicer to work with. I'm going to buy only brass in the future. The holes were drilled with a 5/16" bit, and tapped with a 1/8 national pipe thread (npt) tap.
Anthony Calfo, if you read this; every time I see a towel in the fish room, I think of your zoanthid stories.

A view of the air-stones installed. The air pump will have a battery back up soon. In case of power failure, the airstones will supply water movement, oxygen, and denitrification, as they wash over the sponge filters.

The Amphiprion Ocellaris from Chris in Clifton Park, NY (they are a very nice almost red color)

The beginning of a complete temperature control module for the garage. Greg has had some micro-controller experience. So we are going to set this unit up to control the AC, exhaust fan (3 speeds), ebo jager heater,evaporitive cooling fans, and a duct between the garage and fish room. It will also have a kill switch for the lights if it gets too hot in there. Later we will also use this controller for the waste-oil heater. It has 6 temp sensors:
2 in the broostock tank, 1 outside,
1 in the fish room,
1 in the garage, and one in the sump.
