As I’ve started to think up Paludarium 2.0, more and more ideas are popping up. The most recent one: How to build the water household. With all the things I want, and all the technology I can build, I am now thinking up the specs and features I need/want, and how I can build them so that it will actually work, and most important, KEEP working.
Specs for the flow of water
I have quite an extensive must have / wanna have list. Here they are in random order: Read more
Posted in Paludarium, Rain and Mist, Water physics
Tagged automated water refreshes, evaporation, flow meter, heating, paludarium, reverse osmosis, solenoid valve, waterfall
As Paludarium 1.0 is sold and gone, I’ve begun to design the cabinet that will be built under the new paludarium. I plan to use kitchen cabinets for this purpose, and include a section to put the TV on as well.
Using kitchen cabinets
When building our new kitchen, it dawned on me that using kitchen cabinets might make the perfect cabinet Read more
Posted in Cabinet, Paludarium
Tagged cabinet, kitchen cabinet for aquarium, kitchen cabinet for plaudarium, paludarium, Paludarium cabinet
It finally happened. I sold of Paludarium 1.0 to a nice person who is going to refit it for keeping poison dart frogs. The cabinet underneath was already old and not that nice anymore, but he gladly took it with him to patch it up.
Posted in Cabinet, Glass structure, Paludarium
Tagged empty spaces, paludarium sold
The glorious days of Paludarium 1.0 have definitely come to an end. The realtime page at http://realtime.paluweb.nl is offline, all fish have been transferred to a temporary tank, and I have posted it “for sale” n a Dutch trading site.
Fish Migration
The fish that were still in the Paludarium 1.0 have been relocated to a new and temporary home in separate tank. I surely had Read more
Posted in Glass structure, Paludarium
Tagged paludarium empty, Paludarium for sale
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
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
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Goedemorgen Erik, Ik wil dat graag een keertje live bekijken. Kunnen we een afspraak maken?
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Nice post, thanks !