2 feet marine tanks updated - 29 Jan 2012

If you wonder what happans to my 2 feet tanks, this is what it looked  at 29 Jan 2012. It is five months ago, many things have changed since then.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTAHAVQUBrE



Pico tank as at 24 Jun 12

Everything went well after the UV light is turned on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyZmRLMJqoE

@24 Jun 2012

Hailea Chiller with External Temperature Controller without modification to the chiller and without DIY risk (Part 1)

Finally, solve the chiller problem without any modifications to the chiller and without DIY the external temperature controller. And this equipment is very resonable in price. I am using Hailea HC-300A chiller.

Will do a review in near future, so let the equipment run in for a fair review.

So happy now......

Sad day/week (Pico tank as at 10 Jun 12)

What a sad week! Loss a clarkii clownfish in the pico tank... ,  the clarkii clownfish is from the 2 feet tank and it is with me for more than 9 months to a year. It comes very sudden. Its body developed white spots, then started to breathing heavily. The next day, I changed 40% of the water and put a UV light to the tank. After a day, she is gone..... Indeed, the marine Ich or could be marine velvet are very deadly.

Now, turn on the UV light and hope it will not spread to other fishes. Until today, all the fishes look healthy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WiUvCLiXXM

Always a challenge in keeping marine fishes in pico tank.................

DIY Chiller with External Temperature Contoller

I come across a video on DIY a temperature controller. The controller can be brought from ebay easily. There are several models of temperature controllers. I suggest use All-purpose Temperature Controller STC-1000. It is about S$30-35. The challenge is to DIY the connections, it is not so difficult. But you must know what you are doing, if you are not sure, then donot do it!

The advantages is normally the external temperature controller have more features such as the delta difference in temperature for the chiller to kick in beside the normal 1 degree C.

Hope you can learn some things from the video.

Enjoy the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I-iwFLykxs

My Mandrain Fish

One of the very unique fishes is the mandrain fish. It is one of the challenging fish. It is very dificult to get it to feed. Very very slow eater. Its movement is so graceful and the color is incredible beautiful.

I have one Green Mandrain fish since last year december. It have been with me for coming to 7 months.

I am not sure what it eats. Every morning, I put one cube of mysis shrimp and one cube of brine shrimp into the pico tank plus some pellets. I only feed pellets at the evening. I did saw it pecks on some pellets and shrimps.

Hope next time I try to take a video when the fish is feeding....

DIY Hailea Chiller with External Temperature Probe/Sensor

In this few weeks,the weather is very hot, my chiller keeps on turn on and off very frequently and nowadays the electrical cost per KWh is also rising. As the coming few months will be also very hot, I decided to look for ways to reduce the kick in of the chiller, hoping reduce the cost of electrical bill.

I found a DIY to connect an external temperature probe to Hailea chiller. The pictures are from a forumer named gryphon in www.arofanatics.com.  He wrote a very detail method of connecting a external temperature probe to a Hailea chiller. I summarised the steps.

1. Buy a NTC based plastic temperature probe/sensor from Sim Lim Tower (shop near the escalator that sell FOX temperature controllers) I think about 2 - 3 meters is the best. There are different types of temperature probe. Make sure it is NTC type.

Picture from gryphon in www.arofanatics.com

2. Remove the front panel by pulling from the bottom of the panel

Picture from gryphon in www.arofanatics.com



 3. Use your finger to reach and press down the two tabs that hold the display panel of the chiller

Picture from gryphon in www.arofanatics.com

Picture from gryphon in www.arofanatics.com

Tabs refer to the circled one:

Picture from gryphon in www.arofanatics.com

4. See the pair of red and black thin wire, that is the wire connect to the internal temperaure sensor in the chiller.

Picture from gryphon in www.arofanatics.com

5. Disconnect and solder or connect to the external temperature probe. (there is no polarity you need to follow)

6. Calibrate your chiller to match your tank's temperature by pressing and hold the Up and Down arrows together.

For more information and show of appreciation to the author please go to the link below and thanks the author:

http://www.arofanatics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=470139