Underwater webcam?

[Gabriel_T]

I was recently intrigued by the idea of having a view of my reef 24/7 w/ acess via the internet. Would it be possible to make an underwater webcam that is wireless? If so, what would be needed?

 

[90sShooter]

That would be awesome!I wonder if you could make a cube out of acrylic and put the camera inside and just sink it... I imagine you could even use a wire camera as long as the box is sealed really nice and waterproof. Or how about this for an idea, make the cube and put a magfloat or magnet holder inside so you can attach it to the side like a powerhead...

Very cool idea! Let's see it happen...

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

A magnet might not be too much better than water for the camera, cool idea though.

 

[90sShooter]

o yeah... I didn't think that through too much did I? lol Ok just use heavy duty suction cups... similar to what the koralia uses... and hope that holds

Or just set up a perch for it on top of a rock somewhere... be creative... I thought I read something about somebody using some sort of reef safe glue to cover pvc pipe with and then sprinkling powdered rubble rock over it to create a rock-like coating (which will look better when coraline starts to grow over it). That would be sweet! I think I might try to mock something up tomorrow if I get bored... all I need is a cheap webcam...

 

["Umm fish?"]

The best one I've seen is here: http://www.reefcentral.org/forums/s...75675&perpage=25&highlight=CCPs&pagenumber=38

You might ask Arnar how he mounted his.


Good luck!

****Edit****

I just went and looked at it and it looks like he's having some condensation issues inside the acrylic tube these days. You might want to consider those sorts of problems.