After just over two years, the day is nearing: Paludarium 1.0 is going to be shut down, including the real time statistics page realtime.paluweb.nl. At that time I will start building out Paludarium 2.0, which of course will get a realtime statistics page once again (possibly a nicer one!!) but that will take at least several months to complete.
Just as Paludarium 1.0, I decided to once again not build the glass tank myself, but have this pre-built. In order to be able to get what I want, I needed a technical drawing of the glass tank.
General sizing
General sizing was quite straightforward. I want to reuse my old paludarium lighting hood, so the top measures should be the same as the old one: 100cm wide and 60cm deep. The current height of the paludarium is 100cm (divided in 30cm water, 70cm land). I found the 30cm of water to be somewhat too low, and really want a water height of 50cm. That would bring the Plaudarium to a total glass height of 50+70 = 120cm. Quite a construction!
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So why would you put up a webcam to a paludarium and save a screenshot every day? Well, because you can! Now that I was working with videos and youtube anyway, I figured to check out my fileserver and see how many captures where there. I was surprised to see that my fileserver had been capturing screens for over 1,5 year! Now I have strung them all together into a short video for all to see.
Posted in Paludarium, Plant life
Tagged daily screenshot, paludarium, stop-motion
I have heard a LOT of different stories on aquatic lighting types and plant growth. From horror stories on blue light boosting algae growth to people buying the most expensive “Amazone”-type fluorescent lighting tubes for horrifying prizes. I did not want to join into all of these made-up or heard-of “facts”, and I decided to do my own testing! In this blog I will post what I did, and most important… the outcome of my test.
Paludarium 2.0 is going to utilize the same lighting system as the current (1.0) version. Because I am often asked about this technology, I decided to translate my original post (see Verlichting van het paludarium (in Dutch) and post it here.
Posted in lighting, Paludarium
Tagged aquarium led lighting, cree LED, halogen lighting, led, led lighting, lighting, Luxeon, Luxeon LED, paludarium, paludarium lighting, SuperLED
When I built Paludarium 1.0, I was positive on having solved the water poisoning by not using potting soil anywhere in the landmass. As it turns out, the plants on land rot away leaves and build their own soil inside. Very nice for the plants, not so nice for the fish inside. since the water streams through the soil, it picks up a lot of chemicals that aren’t very healthy for the fish in the aquatic part.
Posted in Water physics
Tagged aquatic zone, manure zone, paludarium, paludarium water household, separate water systems, water household
My automated paludarium has been running for some years now. After this time, some flaws have become obvious. Time for Paludarium 2.0 !
Posted in Paludarium
Tagged anableps, four-eyed fish, foureyed fish, foureyes, paludarium, paluweb, paluweb.nl
Because I have launched my paluweb blog, the original page behind www.paluweb.nl had to move. You can now watch the realtime stats here: http://realtime.paluweb.nl
Have fun watching! For now the webcam is down. I might put it up again, but it is likely to return only when Pauldarium 2.0 is starting to take shape.
Posted in Automation, Paludarium
Tagged automation, JT, jungletime, la selva, la selva biological station, meteorologic, paludarium, real-time statistics, realtime statistics, weather
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