Noah_Reefing
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anyone have advice with 3d printing, i am going to try using a lulzbot taz 6 to 3d print a modular seahorse feeder which can be adjusted to the user's needs. for seahorses that are just starting out, you can thread on a feeder with hitching posts. if you want to feed live brine, i will make a live brine shrimp feeder (i need dimensions for that) if you have more confident seahorses you can just do a standard food trough. if you want to feed a lot of seahorses, i could invent a 2 attachment seahorse feeder that can be as long as you like. this could work with other species too with a nori feeder with a breech style design where you have a clip with nori and a pull part you pull the pulling part up then clip the nori on then drop it down. this could be connected to a servo adruino to program it to go off a few times a day so the fish get a controlled amount of food and a Paul B style mandarin feeder but that would require a nylon sheet to work. mabye just a standard frozen food broadcaster also. all the designs will be open source fusion 360 and i can convert that to any other autodesk software. i will even model extension tubes that are threaded so if you have a deep tank or you want to feed bottom feeders, you can use those. they could be adjusted to the specified height you want. i cannot decide if it would be more efficent to do a construction where you have a 3d printed threaded stick thats hollow that goes into a 3d printed threaded tube and you adjust the height. the tube is connected to a bracket w/ a 3d printed spacer bolt that screws to adjust to tank thickness. (in this scenaro, all the feeders would be omnidirectional) or i could do a 3d printed stick thats hollow but only the top half inch is threaded and it goes directly into the tank hanger bracket. the hanger bracket could be replaced with a floater so if you have a massive tank or you want to feed a lot of fish you can just float it.
(this is mostly spitballing right now but i am working on the seahorses design, i know nothing about 3d printers and 3d printing outside of how they work & how to do the software)
(this is mostly spitballing right now but i am working on the seahorses design, i know nothing about 3d printers and 3d printing outside of how they work & how to do the software)