Gyre Nano

[kwirky]

soldering the circuit board and making cut-outs in the project box is turning out to be quite labour intensive. I think with the ammount of time that's gone into the wavemaker project so far, the advice I'd have to give to anyone would be to make sure it's an important thing you want if you're designing custom circuitry and have never done electronics before . There was a lot for me to learn.

Plus cost. I think I've spent about $100 in various things to get the ting working. I could build another one after this for about $20 in components though, as most of the $100 was in tools and incorrect/unessesary components.


The potential of DIY electronics is exciting though. Been reading about some people who've used programmable IC's to make some stuff as advanced as the profilux equipment (minus the web server). T5 dimmers, pump frequency oscilators, stuff like that.

I had a friend who was learning about electronics along side me, helping prototype the circuit. He was thinking of all sorts of crazy stuff to use electronics for in his own home theater hobby, too.

[kwirky]

So I've begun moving some of my LPS into the nano tank. I've decided it's a good area to raise SPS without my shrimp and fish stealing the food. I'll be able to feed them more regularily and the 150W lighting is almost perfect for them. The water flow makes them look quite appealing too.

So there's a zoo rock in the tank, and my frogspawn. I'm debating whether to bust a chunk off my xenia rock to seed the nano. It would look nice as well in the water column.

[BCOrchidGuy]

I just did a small feeble take off on your set up in a 10 gallon, the xenia seems to be loving it as does the mushroom rock, thanks for the idea, I think I'll pick up a decent power head sometime soon and take a good look at doing it right.

Doug

[kwirky]

sweet

I broke down and busted a small chunk off my xenia rock. They appear to love the solid water flow too.

I'm trying to source out black acrylic at a good price. Thinking of covering the front with a piece of black acrylic that's routered out to leave the display area open.

[kwirky]

so it's practically done, and I want to set up a propagation system of about 3 tanks in total on a rack, but the mammy says I can't take any more floor space, even though we have loads of space down in the basement here

I really want to do a propagation system in order for the hobby to pay for itself, but then I'd have to take down this gyre tank

I'm really torn over which to do.