Roadmap

Project roadmap

What is already documented, what is being measured now, and what is queued next. Every item links to the experiment, documentation or equipment it depends on. Planned items are listed because they are intended, not because they are finished.

Completed3

Continuous monitoring
Temperature, pH and conductivity logged around the clock.
PAR mapping
The Solar RGB baseline: nineteen positions measured on 8 August with depth and fixture height on every reading.
Automated dosing
2Hr Aquarist APT 3 dosed by the Red Sea ReefDose 2 on a fixed daily schedule.

In progress4

Growth photography
Matched photographs documenting the Dutch shaping and structural trims over time. The most recent published full-tank photograph is from August; a current one is due.
Dutch shaping
Past the grow-in: shaping distinct groups, controlling canopy height, keeping groups separate and developing the foreground, with hair algae and localized cyanobacteria on record.
Solar RGB versus Chihiros
The Chihiros WRGB II Pro 90 replaced the Solar RGB on 17 September. A matched survey at the baseline's height and depths is still needed before the comparison can be called.
PAR optimization
Using the measured distribution to place plants and set the fixture's position and channels.

Planned3

CO₂ under pH control
Built and tested earlier, and switched off. Injection runs on a fixed daily window with hardware limits, and the logged pH drop is used to tune it. Closing the loop again is deferred while KH sits near zero, because the pH signal is not treated as a direct CO₂ measurement in this water.
Solar RGB II comparison · deferred
Deferred. The tank moved to a Chihiros instead and no Solar RGB II is planned; the procedure is kept in case one is ever tested.
Canopy PAR mapping
The same positions measured at canopy height as stems fill in.

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