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My wife and I have had too much fun setting up our little ten gallon tank. And I'll never admit how much money we've spent on it. Now we're ready to take what we've learned and add more tricks to the empty twenty gallon tank sitting in our living room.

I joined this forum because I am keenly interested in automating the lighting on both our tanks. Maybe in the future I'll add more gizmos. But for now I'm content with everything except the lighting.

Pleased to meet you!

I have five tanks, mostly automated by computer via X10. The largest, a 46G, has a custom-built dimmable T5HO hood.

Have been studying microcontrollers and electronics whenever I can. My ultimate goal is to eventually replace the X10 with MCUs, which will allow greater automation. But unlike most projects where the controllers are self-contained, I want to keep the central computer control, and communicate with the aquariums via a wireless mesh network. Have done experiments with much of the basic framework, but I still have a long way to go!

Would also like to build some LED fixtures, experiment with remote phosphors, monitor filter clogging via current draw, and more.

Mistergreen has done some serious trailblazing with his DIY PAR and CO2 measurement. Not to mention this forum. I think it will be a great success.

Thanks for joining. I'll post the DIY par meter when I get the chance.

I hadn't thought about using current draw to monitor filter clogging. Interesting idea. I can think of a few gadgets I'd like to have. But I'm saving those for when we get a house and I build a big tank.