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Post by devonjohnsgard on Feb 7, 2017 14:14:44 GMT -5
Seems comparable for the price. Seneye seems better and I like how it's an on going monitoring tool. Ends up being far more spendy... trade offs.
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Post by childofiam on Feb 7, 2017 15:39:39 GMT -5
They recommend the saltwater version on planted tanks but a $400.00 + I would not personally invest in one. When they add the ORP it will also drive up the cost so we will have to wait and see...
Richard
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Post by childofiam on Feb 9, 2017 9:10:33 GMT -5
I ordered another Seneye Home for the spawning tank. Here are some pictures. This is a shot of the pc app on the left and on the right is what you see on line. On the middle graft you will see a spike that goes into the red. This was due to me dropping the water down to 30 gallons in the tank for internal parasite treatment. What happen is that a prob that measures my temp for the heater controller was out of the water so the heaters would not shut off. I received email and text alerts to the situation until the temp went down. If you guys remember I lost every fish in a tank because of heater malfunction a year ago. I purchased high quality heaters from AAP then and I also found a controller that shuts the power off to the heaters and on again to control temp. You also see the pH rising over the last three day from the treatment and no H2O changes. You can use your mouse to see every measurement and the date/time it was taken by placing the pointer on the graft line. Here we have the display of the pc touch screen I purchased to run the Seneye Home System. I have more picture to post of my Aquarium/Plant room but I will post them to my tank blog (Childofiam 75 gal. Tank) The online view gives options to see selected Data for each of the charts; Today Yesterday Last 3 days This week Last week Last month All data Richard
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Feb 9, 2017 14:21:20 GMT -5
drool. fun fun toy...
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Post by Carl on Feb 9, 2017 15:37:37 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing!
Can the temperature be switched from Celsius to Fahrenheit?
Carl
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Post by childofiam on Feb 9, 2017 16:35:10 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing! Can the temperature be switched from Celsius to Fahrenheit? Carl yes... but I like Celsius because my heater controller has more control of the temp in Celsius. I have the heaters set to come on with a .2 deg. drop in temp where in Fahrenheit it is a whole degree. Richard
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Post by childofiam on Feb 21, 2017 8:13:12 GMT -5
I have found that the temp sensor for the heater controller needs to be right next to the Seneye sensor. With it in a different area it will always be off.
I have two Seneye Home one in my Spawn tank and one in my grow-out tank. I ordered the Seneye Reef for my planted tank as it is recommended for the planted fresh water too. The Reef will measure light so this will be interesting to see. I will do some test with lights in different positions to see Par and Pur.
Richard
PS The new discus will ship out this evening and I will receive them in the morning. I will use the spawn tank as the quarantine tank so they will go directly into the spawning season after or during quarantine and not need to be moved.
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Post by childofiam on Feb 22, 2017 8:21:57 GMT -5
I will be contacting Seneye about pH issue. On their server I am not able to move the pH low indicator line below 6.5 Lets see how their customer service works.
Richard
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Post by childofiam on Feb 28, 2017 6:56:16 GMT -5
Seneye customer support is very poor, thats all I have to say about that. Carl, You will note a sudden drop in pH on the 75 planted tank yesterday, that was me calibrating the pH part of the meter. Richard Attachments:Seneye.webarchive (1.82 MB)
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Post by childofiam on Feb 28, 2017 10:43:10 GMT -5
childofiam.bmp (152.95 KB) I am trying to get a screen shot. I hope this will work. Edit, It didn't ...
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Feb 28, 2017 18:20:54 GMT -5
Seneye customer support is very poor That's too bad. I wanted to like them.
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Post by childofiam on Mar 3, 2017 13:08:56 GMT -5
I will rebuke my last comment on Seneye Customer Support Service as I found the Email I sent in my unsent folder. I resent it this morning and received a response in about 2 hours. As too pH, the Seneye devises will not measure pH below 6.4 This is why the warning lines won't go below 6.4 On another note with pH, you have to trim the pH value on a regular schedule or you won't have a proper reading of pH. With my Hanna ORP/pH meter I recalibrate it once a week so in return I check my pH and trim the Seneye to my Hanna meter. I am using the Seneye Reef for my Anubis planted freshwater tank and really like it as it also keep track of O2 levels and has Ammonia level at normal readings as well as in ppb. You can really see the Bio-filter working at this ppb level. Here are a couple of pictures I took with my phone. Richard
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Mar 3, 2017 13:56:02 GMT -5
Awesome news. I'm glad they got back.
You got it to work on your Apple?
I need to log in and take a closer look, just hasn't happened while I'm running around with no head. Soon.
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Post by childofiam on Mar 3, 2017 18:49:51 GMT -5
Awesome news. I'm glad they got back. You got it to work on your Apple? I need to log in and take a closer look, just hasn't happened while I'm running around with no head. Soon. I can only see the online stuff with my iMac. The seneye needs a windows platform to run the sensors.
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Post by Carl on Mar 4, 2017 10:39:35 GMT -5
I will rebuke my last comment on Seneye Customer Support Service as I found the Email I sent in my unsent folder. I resent it this morning and received a response in about 2 hours. I have done this too in fact just the other day! Oops Love the graphs too! Carl
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Post by childofiam on Mar 9, 2017 15:35:25 GMT -5
Update; www.seneye.me/childofiam/#p=55042As I have learned from Hanna Instruments, it is hard to accurately measure pH in low KH environments. I have a 3 dkh KH in all of my tanks except the Guppy tank so I have moved one of the Seneye's to it and labeled the tank as Guppy Tank. I am doing this because I have to keep adjusting the pH calibrations. This morning the Spawn tank showed a huge drop in pH but as I used my Hanna meter it was the same stable pH. They say you can "Trim" the sensor pH to match any other devise so I will see how the meter keeps in a high KH environment. On a 5 star rating I have now lowered my rating at a 3 star. 1 star loss for not being able to measure pH below 6.4 and a 1 star loss for inaccurate measurement in a low KH environment. After all, I don't think someone getting into this hobby would purchase the Seneye as the price tag is a bit high. Their target customers would be people like me with planted tanks and Discus as well a Marine & Reef keepers. The idea of being able to see correct readings over time is a great one... but they have to be correct readings. Richard
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Mar 9, 2017 18:11:15 GMT -5
Interesting experience... so it's that it has a hard time reading the pH in a low KH? I would think that's when the meter is most important to see the swifts in pH. So it does shows the swifts, or the readings are inaccurate.... eekk. I hope I getting something wrong here and not that the reasons are inaccurate, cause seems like the meter is most important.
I'm sure glad you're doing this testing. It takes a patient mind to handle this testing.
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Post by childofiam on Mar 9, 2017 18:31:11 GMT -5
Interesting experience... so it's that it has a hard time reading the pH in a low KH? I would think that's when the meter is most important to see the swifts in pH. So it does shows the swifts, or the readings are inaccurate.... eekk. I hope I getting something wrong here and not that the reasons are inaccurate, cause seems like the meter is most important. I'm sure glad you're doing this testing. It takes a patient mind to handle this testing. I would say it has a hard time reading accurate pH in low alkaline environments. Good meters have a two point calibration to maintain accurate pH readings. For Low alkaline environments you use 7.01 and 4.01 buffering solution and in high alkaline environments you use 7.01 and 8.01 solution for calibration. Accurate meters read mv to determine pH and the Seneye uses a chemical on the slide. Richard
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Post by Carl on Mar 10, 2017 12:48:30 GMT -5
Thank you for taking the time for this objective review!
Carl
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Post by devonjohnsgard on Mar 10, 2017 13:27:47 GMT -5
I see...
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