Inventions you’ve made for your Reef

[Nano_Man]

Hi
Members is there anything you’ve made to make your life easier for your reef. There’s been some good and bad inventions over the years.But yours could be what we are all looking for
Let’s see what you have made

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I'm following this, I always love seeing the creative ideas people make for their tanks

 

[Nano_Man]

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[VintageReefer]

I made a modular magnetic frag grow out shelf designed for either standard 2x2 tiles or 3d printed ones.

The 3d printed ones have a hole so you can attach a frag plug directly without risking harm removing the coral from tbh plug.

Many corals encrust before growing vertically and this allows you to get a nice 2x2 base before relocating.

I also have 2x2 tiles with 5 plug holes so zoa and similar corals can self propagate to adjacent plugs

I couldn’t find a magnet shelf to accommodate 2x2 tiles so I invented this. I don’t like tiles or plugs on the sand…par is low, sand is irritating, nassarius and snails can flip them etc

Exosphere’s vanishing - losing colony need help

No idea here everyone Bought a colony of 25 heads of exosphere. Looked very healthy. Within a few days I was down to 15. Looked like all the lower and smaller ones melted and turned to mush. I dipped it in revive and coral rx and gave a light scrubbing with a soft brush and got all the mush...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[Nano_Man]

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[Troylee]

I haven’t invented anything fish wise built I’ve built everything there is for a tank from the ground up!

 

[rhitee93]

I wouldn't call these inventions so much as I needed a part so I made it.

I wanted to keep my eel from getting into the overflow so I made this topper for it:

I made these little clips to control the cables for my lights. The slide into the T slots on my light bar:

This is my Flow-Bee siphon algae scraper:

 

[Nano_Man]

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[V_Sh]

Hi
Members is there anything you’ve made to make your life easier for your reef. There’s been some good and bad inventions over the years.But yours could be what we are all looking for
Let’s see what you have made

Hi,

I really like this question, that may help all of us, Thank you so much.

Maybe not an invention but I'll share the last thing I've created for my store and upgraded some of my tanks to:

tanks are 70 liters and I separated 10cm of the left part of each tank for a side-sump, the difference is that the entrance of each sump is ONLY a small gap at the bottom of the sump (the glass doesn't touch the bottom) and the water circulation is about 50 times of the tank capacity; as you may guess there is no sand in the tank just couple of liverock for fishes to hide.

Can you guess why should someone design such a thing? LOL

the controlling of parasites like Cryptocaryon is too much easier in this system as the cysts or dormant stage of the parasites simply wash away from the glassy bottom to the sump.

many other small things should be done for this system to perform well but the overall mechanism is like this.


I would like to hear your precious opinions, appreciate

 

[Nano_Man]

Hi,

I really like this question, that may help all of us, Thank you so much.

Maybe not an invention but I'll share the last thing I've created for my store and upgraded some of my tanks to:

tanks are 70 liters and I separated 10cm of the left part of each tank for a side-sump, the difference is that the entrance of each sump is ONLY a small gap at the bottom of the sump (the glass doesn't touch the bottom) and the water circulation is about 50 times of the tank capacity; as you may guess there is no sand in the tank just couple of liverock for fishes to hide.

Can you guess why should someone design such a thing? LOL

the controlling of parasites like Cryptocaryon is too much easier in this system as the cysts or dormant stage of the parasites simply wash away from the glassy bottom to the sump.

many other small things should be done for this system to perform well but the overall mechanism is like this.


I would like to hear your precious opinions, appreciate

Great any pictures of your set ups
Thanks for your input on the thread. It’s nice to see what others are doing to make things better and easier

 

[Nano_Man]

The only thing I have done is set up micro tubs but the idea came from people keeping betta fish which the males fight so they keep them separate in tubs . So my tubs are drip fed which fills the tubs.I have a small over flow pipe that goes into a 22mm pipe that runs at the back of the tubs then it goes in to a tub sump and the process starts again . I also have another pump passing water through a chiller and back to the tub sump which keeps the temperature at 14c f or my native tubs .

 

[V_Sh]

Great any pictures of your set ups
Thanks for your input on the thread. It’s nice to see what others are doing to make things better and easier

Thanks a lot, yeah just an interesting topic I can enjoy this forever.

for sure I'll share some pictures as soon as I get to the store today, my pleasure to share experiences.

I hope this threat gets many views and replies.

The only thing I have done is set up micro tubs but the idea came from people keeping betta fish which the males fight so they keep them separate in tubs . So my tubs are drip fed which fills the tubs.I have a small over flow pipe that goes into a 22mm pipe that runs at the back of the tubs then it goes in to a tub sump and the process starts again . I also have another pump passing water through a chiller and back to the tub sump which keeps the temperature at 14c f or my native tubs .

wow, cool
Thanks for sharing

 

[Paul B]

Almost everything in my tank I invented.



Diatom filters



Reverse UG filter manifold


Injectors for aiptasia



Algae scrubber



Sulphur denitrator



Another injector



Rotating algae scrubber



Evaporitive chiller





Skimmer



Mandarin feeder



Water cooled LEDs





Mojano wand, brine shrimp hatchery and many, many more.

 

[V_Sh]

Almost everything in my tank I invented.



Diatom filters



Reverse UG filter manifold


Injectors for aiptasia



Algae scrubber



Sulphur denitrator



Another injector



Rotating algae scrubber



Evaporitive chiller





Skimmer



Mandarin feeder



Water cooled LEDs





Mojano wand, brine shrimp hatchery and many, many more.

The injector is really cool well-done

How does the Mandarine feeder work? what food do you put in that?

 

[Paul B]

The injector is really cool well-done

How does the Mandarine feeder work? what food do you put in that?

It works like this. You put new born brine shrimp in the funnel at the top over the water and they slowly try to get through the mesh as the fish eat them all day. They are all over this, and other forums just search for "Paul B" feeder.

 

[Liftoff]

Almost everything in my tank I invented.



Diatom filters



Reverse UG filter manifold


Injectors for aiptasia



Algae scrubber



Sulphur denitrator



Another injector



Rotating algae scrubber



Evaporitive chiller





Skimmer



Mandarin feeder



Water cooled LEDs





Mojano wand, brine shrimp hatchery and many, many more.

Ah great
Do you put the diatom filter in series if needed or is it constantly connected. How do you apply it?

Best greetings
Liftoff

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

Built this Back-up Pump System for just enough water movement from Salvaged Sump Pumps Module. Last Night it ran for Six Hours, after someone hit a power pole. Can run for a Week unattended.

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

Built this 12VDC Power Center for my Lighting, there’s room for Three more Power Supplies.

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

Built Three of These Flood Lights, call them the Coral Burners, the are on Plug in Timers to turn them on and off during the day. Shown open.

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

Built these 1/2” Acrylic Bridges for a Three Panel Glass top for my 120 Gallon Aquarium. There’s a Spare as they still warp, and have to be bent back slowly.