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Paludarium 2.0: Ordering glass

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Erik Zandboer| 1 Comment

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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1.5 Year stop-motion video from Paludarium 1.0

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Erik Zandboer| Leave a comment

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.

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Lighting of the Paludarium 2.0

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Erik Zandboer| 1 Comment

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.

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Separating the aquatic system from the land system

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Erik Zandboer| Leave a comment

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.

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Thinking up Paludarium version 2.0

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Erik Zandboer| Leave a comment

My automated paludarium has been running for some years now. After this time, some flaws have become obvious. Time for Paludarium 2.0 !

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Real-Time statistics website has moved

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Erik Zandboer| Leave a comment

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.

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