12g CAD newbie tank

[stuie25]

slow on the updates but i got the sand in the the critters moved over last night

Everyone seams to be happy so far, one of the shrimp molted last night it seams, not sure if thats good or bad.

So at the moment i have 2 clowns, 2 shrimp, 3 hermit crabs and a snail. I think thats if for fish but i would like to get some more colorfull corals to give the tank some color.





I instaled my aquatics plus skimmer from the 60g on the back of my 12, and it was happly skimming away this morning but i was just wondering is it possiable to overskim? am i going to take too much out?



Im setting up a plc to do some timer automations this weekend until i can afford a apex jr. Its just going to turn the lights on and off and have a pump shutdown timer for feeding

Looks great. I don't think you can over skim. You could take a chisel to that piece of rock and break it up into 3 pieces.

[stuie25]

i thought about breaking it up but the critters seam to like being able to swim under it and hide.

The skimmer seams to be working well.

i plan on building a stand for it next.

[stuie25]

Update ( aug 4th )

well im sorry for being slow on here.

THe tank has been moved to its new home and my led light went for a swim and up in smoke so im now running a hacked sunpod.






sun pod and led soon to be hopefully combined as one.



plc and dim 4














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its currently up and running, not very pretty but it works, currently running 3 blue and 3 white , as thats what the dim4can drive internaly. The white and the blue are on all day, the blue goes off last and the third relay channel, which is supposed to turn a fan on and off runs my relay for the MH ballast which is on from 12pm to 2 pm every day, still adjusting the timeing a bit but so far i like it





you can tell that there are more blue than white on the left side, becuase the dim 4 does three 1w leds its hard to ballance, i may have to use the fourth channel for more leds



i also planning on adding a pipe to the back of the cabinet fo fly the light from thats why the wires look bad and that getto wood blocking.

as lucky that a friend of mine was moving and gave me some stuff out of his tank, im still learning the names so i cant tell you what any of it is (if you know feel free to tell me)

My plc ato seams to be working like a charm, i may be adding an auto feeder soon as im away for work a lot over the summer, and i can program the pumps to shut down for the feeder to feed the poor lonely clown.















new pics , nikon d7000, 210mm zoom/macro lens
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