combining a aquarium, terrarium and reef pi.

[terrapi]

since a few weeks im building my own aquarium terrarium. im also using reef pi to control things like humidity and temperature. ill use this thread to keep track of my progress

 

[SlugSnorter]

you mean a paludarium?

 

[shakacuz]

good luck to you! following the progress .

 

[terrapi]

I just picked up the parts I ordered so far. knowing that reefpi sensors work best when using the one-wire protocol I ordered 2 one-wire temperature sensors.

one to measure the water temperature of the fish part and one to measure the air temperature.

I also picked up a submersible humidifier. it's ultrasonic so it basically kicks the water into tiny droplets that will float through the air until they dissolve.

when I got the relays and sensors up and running the basic mainframe stands. after this ill look into how I will use an i2c humid sensor

 

[terrapi]

ive had some trouble setting up the dash in reefpi itself. for instance it doesnt show temp graphs. but im going to use the adafruit.io dash. i really like the darkmode with the green graphs.

 

[terrapi]

now with the graphs running i noticed something strange, my goal is keeping the water temp around 26 degrees c and the airtemp around the 25 degrees c. when not using the humidifyer and with the lamps turned on this works like a charm. at night when the lamps are off the air cools down a bit. but this is actually okay for the little froggers i want to put in.

but here comes the strange thing. when i turn on the humidifyer. the air cools down like 2 degrees. i espected this because of the evaporation. but the water temp also spikes up. what results in a really uneaven graph related to the both temp readings.

see the graph below. the spike at 7 am being the humidifyer turned on.

 

[terrapi]

today my new humid sensors came in. ill put it in reefpi and keep you posted. after this ill start building the terrarium itself.