Reply With Quote... plus a computer controlled climate. Different daylength and temperature for different time of the year and biotope. Simulated rainy days, sunrise and sunset effects...
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BC
I was thinking if we could in anyway monitor a tank's conditions through a dedicated computer in real time mode. It should allow us to monitor individual temperature, PH, NO3, PO4, KH, fertilities, polution etc. It will surely benefits many hobbist as we could easily identify each bottleneck and tolerance like algaes bloom. Imagine those graphs running about... [] [
I think it is very technically possible but it's the potential extremely high cost that discouraged hobbist.
... plus a computer controlled climate. Different daylength and temperature for different time of the year and biotope. Simulated rainy days, sunrise and sunset effects...
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have you seen the marine setup at Aquatechinic? same concept, control by a computer
Such a telemetry system will requires a host of sensors, pH, KH etc. that will send out analog 4-20mA signal to an interface before your host PC can convert to engineering reading. Will be a pretty expensive thing to do.
The Ancient Mariner
Hi Goondoo
Its already been done......if you have taken a tour of the Undersea World, all the tanks there are controlled by computer in real time.....for our aquarium, its just too expensive just to get the hardware for it.
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Hi Goondoo:
Hey it would be perfect to have it. Able to see at all times what's going on in your tank water parameters. But, accidents can happen, like in Amano's first book, one of his tanks that was computerised for PH control ended up killing all his fishes cos the PH probe was misplaced out of the water and the sensor just kept on pumping CO2 into the big tank the whole nite.
Still it's my fantasy too!!
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