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So here we go.  Starting over. First thing, if I can buy it, I'm not building it.  Two reasons for that.  I know half the reason it's sat there, is that I don't want to go through the massive effort of building two huge sumps by hand from...

So what went wrong with the big aquarium? Well a number of things. First, my attempts to save money with DIY ended up costing me a fortune.  DIY things are great sometimes, and sometimes there is no other option.  But if you rely on certain...

I have a large aquarium.  When I say large, I mean, mistakes were made large.  800 Gallons, saltwater, reef.  It took me a very long time to get this thing running, and it was looking fairly decent . It wasn't perfect, but it started to look...

Turns out I was utterly soaking my lawn.   Guess these might have been a good investment.  I installed them, and watched them for a few days, got nothing but 0's.  (0 being "utterly soaked").  I decided to turn the sprinklers off for a bit,...

Today I finally got around to installing my moisture sensors in the lawn.  I'm using the one-wire moisture reader from http://www.hobby-boards.com/store/ (who, btw, are sadly going out of business and fire-selling all the inventory, so if you want...