Excited to Join – Sharing My Reef and Projects!

[marine_Assistant]

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to say hi and share how excited I am to finally start posting about my reefing journey. I've been working on my system for a while now and figured it's time to join the community and share some updates, progress, and probably a few challenges along the way.

My setup includes a 550L display tank that's viewable from two sides, with a 200L sump and a 160L frag tank—all the filtration gear and the frag system are tucked away in the basement below the main display. It's been a fun (and sometimes chaotic) build, but I’m loving the results so far.

Here is a photo of the tank, and I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts, ideas, and maybe even some constructive feedback.

Also, I'm working on a side project called the Marine Assistant—a sort of smart reef automation and monitoring tool I’ve been building. I’ll make a separate post about that soon for anyone who’s into DIY tech and automation.

Looking forward to being part of the community!

Cheers,
Luke

 

[Josh]

Nice tank!

What sort of automation system are you building? Are you using grafana for monitoring?

 

[thesauce]

Very cool tank. I am excited to hear more about your project. Welcome!

 

[marine_Assistant]

Great! Thanks for the interest, Ill do a more detailed post soon and post a link here too but if you cant wait feel free to have a read here

 

[Josh]

Tell me more about your data/visualization ideas!

 

[marine_Assistant]

I've made a post for the controller....

DIY aquarium controller with home assistant

Reefs.com Discussion - It’s called Marine Assistant – a web-based reef controller and tank management tool I’ve been building to help automate and monitor reef tanks more efficiently. The core idea is to take some of the stress out of daily tank care by combining logging, automation, and smart...

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[SantaMonica]

Everyone needs an assistant