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Tilman Baumanns build
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This is my tank.
A little 35l aquascape. That much tech is clearly overkill. But I love it.

   


Everything working so far, except the dosing pumps. I still need to build a suitable enclosure for them.
And I need to find good workarounds to make Robo-Tank work for sub 1ml dosing.

   
   
   
   
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Hi Tilman, I love your box, it looks very cool, tank looks amazing as well.

For dosing under 1ml you can slow the pump speed down so it doesn't run as long. The setting will still say its dosing 1ml but because the speed is wrong its actually dosing .5ml or whatever.
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Tilman your tank is great looking makes you almost want to swim in it:) I 2nd Rob I really like the box you put your project in could you please post a link to it?

I have seen a few people using the glass pipes in there tanks for returns and to surface skim and all of them are very expensive after having them in your tank how do you feel about them and would you re-buy them

I am thinking of setting up a 40G tank for blue rams and have a micro garden
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(12-14-2015, 06:48 PM)robsworld78 Wrote: Hi Tilman, I love your box, it looks very cool, tank looks amazing as well.

For dosing under 1ml you can slow the pump speed down so it doesn't run as long. The setting will still say its dosing 1ml but because the speed is wrong its actually dosing .5ml or whatever.
Either that or I will try to maintain a software patch. I'm not sure yet.

I will only get back to the dosing bit next year. No time over the holidays.

The box is a small junction box style enclosure. Way expensive the bloody thing, but I knew it would work well.
https://www.conrad.de/de/regler-gehaeuse...50795.html

The European style plugs are bloody pain. I went for the two pole plugs because that way I had a chance of fitting eight of those.
The German Schuko style plugs with ground wire would have been more correct. But they are huge.
I only had to modify the plug on one device to fit.


(12-14-2015, 09:20 PM)rott Wrote: Tilman your tank is great looking makes you almost want to swim in it:)

I have seen a few people using the glass pipes in there tanks for returns and to surface skim and all of them are very expensive after having them in your tank how do you feel about them and would you re-buy them

I am thinking of setting up a 40G tank for blue rams and have a micro garden

Thanks. It is my first attempt at aquascaping. I would do a few things different now. (And will eventually)
But I found the entry back into my old hobby quite easy. I had no experience caring well for plants before from my previous aquaristic endeavours back in my youth. But that is pretty easy. Lot's of fertilizer, light and CO2.
Here you see how the plants go nuts and perl O2 like crazy.
https://plus.google.com/+TilmanBaumann/p...7V2HLnmZfJ


Lillypipe glas outflows are really cool. And not crazy expensive. I paid 30 EUR for a cheap one.
The glas skimmer is maybe not quite worth it for me. It keeps the surface free from crap, but it's also a very visible ugly huge piece of technology in the tank.
I am failing a bit keeping stuff out of the tank. CO2 reactor and heater are in-line types outside the tank. But I keep adding shit back in. Like the Twinstar and air bubbler. You can't win. (Airbubbler will be replaced with a smaller one)
Lilly-Pipes also suck scum off the surface. That could have been good enough.

But with a 50 Gallon tank, things look very different. Much more space.
If you can't find a source in the US https://www.aquasabi.com/brand/aqua-rebe...mmer-glass
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What are you going to do with the display?

I like the video, can't see the water just bubbles lol.
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the bubbles was the whole point
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#7
I'm not sure yet with the display. It's still flapping in the breeze bare.

Perhaps I will get some acrylic cut later. That is right now my plan for the dosing pump enclosure too.
But I have little success learning CAD software to build the DXF files. Openscad is probably the sharpest tool I'm wiling to learn.
It has some nice lasercut helpers like dovetail and boxes.
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#8
Mines been flapping for a year now lol. One of these days... I'm where you are, a while ago I tried a couple of those CAD programs but yes a big learning curve so I closed it and haven't looked back.
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#9
Hi Tilman,
I really like your build, especially your box, too.
One major reason for not jumping onto the robo tank train was, that I couldn't find a suitable project box and the whole german power bar dilemma :)
I am not ready to pay half the price of the whole robo tank kit for a plastic box and some power sockets :P
The just is NO good DIY solution available for this on the German market. Wonder if the german VDE regulation don't allow DYI built power bars or something, so components for this are not sold anywhere.
No empty power bar boxes, no sockets ...
And yes, the "Schuko" plugs are just too big.
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