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I have been brainstorming and researching for the past few months on building a custom aquarium controller using an arduino. I've seen things like the Apex and others but I feel like I can do something better for about a quarter of the price.
Right now the design would be to:
Perhaps long-term I can do something similar for a reef tank. Some measurements that may be nice to track over time or features to include on a reef monitor that I could think of would be:
I'm curious, what would you like to have automatically tracked in your aquarium?
If anybody has any experience with this type of project I would love to discuss it with you.
Right now the design would be to:
- monitor tank temperature (possibly at multiple locations, perhaps top and bottom)
- monitor room temperature
- use the tank temperature to control the heaters and prevent over-heating
- temperature status lights to visually alert if the temperature is out of the desired range (Blue=cold, green=happy, red=hot)
- float-switch to notify if water level drops (leak)
- Under tank water alarm
- webcam image of the aquarium (from inside the tank)
- organize all the data into an excel file and automatically email daily updates, track changes
- automatically send an email alarm if one of the above triggers fires
Perhaps long-term I can do something similar for a reef tank. Some measurements that may be nice to track over time or features to include on a reef monitor that I could think of would be:
- Salinity
- Conductivity
- Calcium
- PAR meter (although this may be difficult to hide)
- Some alert on a protein skimmer?
- light controls (this wouldn't work with my current systems but if you built them together from the start this would be nice)
- pump controls
I'm curious, what would you like to have automatically tracked in your aquarium?
If anybody has any experience with this type of project I would love to discuss it with you.