Posts Tagged ‘fish house’
Saturday, October 29th, 2005
I moved the Twig Catfish Sturisoma Aureum and Dwarf Hoplo Catfish Hoplosternum pectorale from their quarantine tanks into seperate breeding tanks, these are the new tanks I’ve just added to the fish house. I’ve also added some bogwood to the Sturisoma Aureum tank for them to graze on. Both these tanks are filtered with internal filters, Hagen Bio-Life 55 and Dennerle C400 internal filters, the Sturisoma Aureum like most Locarids are very messy catfish, and Sponge Filters cannot cope with the large amounts of waste these catfish produce.
Eggs have been eated that the Silver Angels laid.
Tags: breeding, catfish, fish, fish house, house
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
This was a project I started many months ago, but like many projects, I started it and didn’t completely finish it, due to time, and juggling life the universe and everything. You’ll notice on the side-bar on the right, a real-time update of temperature from the fish house, measuring internal fish house temperature and external (outdoor) temperature. I still need to calibrate the temperature probes correctly.
The webcam computer breaking has given me the chance to re-install the operating system, and correctly configure it with the excellent PC application created by Spiny aka Alan Norman at www.allthingsspiny.co.uk. The application pctemp.exe runs on a standard PC using a midi or game (joystick) port. It’s an excellent application, and also logs to a *.csv file for import into a spreadsheet, also graphs the output to screen, and can upload the data to a webserver. It easily allows me to view the temperature of my fish house, and later fish tanks anywhere in the world via the internet. I didn’t have a game port on my micro-pc I use in the fish house, so I’m using a USB game port controller, isn’t just about everything available now in a USB connection. Full details of how to configure and connect, create your own temperature probes is on Spiny Norman’s website.
Many Thanks again to Spiny for his efforts in developing this application.
Tags: computer, fish, fish house, house, internet, operating system, web
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
As predicted yesterday evening, I’ve just visited the fish house, later than usual, as I went to the local cinema to watch Wallace & Gromit – Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and the Platinum Angelfish are currently spawning as I type this entry. A quick check on the fish house, and a sharp exit, I didn’t want to frighten them whilst they were spawning.
I only collected this pair four days ago, and put them in a quarantine tank, so I’m very surprised at how quickly they’ve settled in.
The Wallace & Gromit – Curse of the Were-Rabbit movie is excellent, lots of fun, for the children and adults, make sure you watch all the credits!
Tags: fish, fish house, house
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
I’ve recently moved the computer that controls the webcams to make room for two new aquariums in the fish house. One of my colleagues complained about the lack of webcams from the fish house, so this evening I’ve relocated the computer to a new location in the fish house, only to find the hard drive has now failed in the computer!
I’ll have to find a new hard drive, and rebuild the operating system before Angelfishcam is back.
Tags: aquarium, computer, fish, fish house, house, operating system, web
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
I’ve removed the inlet pipe from the fish house connected to the air-inlet of the Hailea air compressor this evening, because I found 2ml of water caused by condensation in the pipe.
The Hailea air compressor is located in the un-heated part of the garage, failing temperature in this side of the garage is causing the hot moist air from the fish house to condense in the air-inlet pipe. I’ve also noticed condensation in the pipe connected to the air manifold from the air compressor, hopefully as temperature equalizes this dissipate. I may have to re-think, and re-locate the air compressor back inside the fish house, if condensation becomes a problem.
Tags: fish, fish house, house
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
I’ve found space in the fish house to add another two 50 litre fish tanks, 24″x15″x12″ this space was where the computer controlling the webcams was occupying. Sorry, I need the space, and it just so happened, that I had two fish tanks, that needed collecting from my family in South Wales!
I’ve spent a few hours this evening, filling with existing aquarium water from my other tanks, moving “cycled and mature” air operated sponge filters from my 6″x2″x2″ tank into these new tanks, I hope to cycle these quickly. so I can use them later next month.
Tags: aquarium, computer, fish, fish house, house, web
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
And then there were two. These are two slightly different filters. The Eheim filter on the left is an Eheim 2034, and the filter on the right is an Eheim 2030 External Canister Filter. Both have filter volume capacities of 18l, both rated at approximately 60 watts, same as a standard light bulb. The main difference are the external oil-cooled pumps, the 2034 uses the 1034 pump, rated at 2160l/h, the 2030 is rated at 1200l/h. Suitable for fish tanks up to 1500l and 1000l respectively.
These oil-cooled external pumps which can be used in extremely humid spaces and outdoors are superior to there air-cooled cousins. Unfortunately, Eheim no longer manufacture these units, and haven’t done so for a long time.
After soak testing the 2030, I’ve noticed a small leak again, I may decide to purchase a replacement Threaded inlet connector for 2250/2260 (Part No. 7276900), part from the later 2250/2260 are compatible.
Concerned with all this electricity I’m burning and escalting electricity costs, I’ve just purchased some digital units, that will calculate my electricity running costs of the fish house, and individual items. I’ll review it here when they arrive shortly.
It could be cost effective to install a central filtration system with all this filter power!
Tags: andysworld, aquablog, bblog, blog, electricity, fish, fish house, house, watts
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Monday, October 17th, 2005
Unfortunately, my local East Riding supplier of Frozen Ruto Bloodworm has ceased trading, so I’m looking for another supplier. If you know of one, please contact me at aquablog@gmail.com.
Air pressure appears to have dropped on the ring main tonight, need to check airstones and connections for air leaks.
Fish House Minimum Air Temperature is a constant 20 degrees C.
I’ve replaced the rubber washers on the Eheim 2030 with plastic half-inch washers, used PTFE tape on all threads, and tightened with a new 30mm socket torque wrench. I’ve filled it up over-night, I’ll check for water leaks tomorrow.
I think I need to feed my Ancistrus, that share a tank with a Purple spotted gudgeon Hikari Algae wafers, rather than the Sera brand Catfish chips, the Gudgeon eat whole wafers, can fish choke on fish food? The Purple spotted Gudgeon in the fish house, have grown very fast compared to the fish in my display tank in the house.
Good News: Java-Plants.com have agreed to replace my Vallis Torta.
Tags: Ancistrus, aquablog, blog, catfish, fish, fish house, house, plants
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Saturday, October 15th, 2005
I’ve not posted for a few days, I’ve been away from home and the fish house with my job at Storage Expo, Olympia, London and compounded by a cold/flu, not been too well, so apart from daily routines feeding the fish, I’ve not been on top of all the projects for the fish house. I don’t think it’s bird flu, although I was in Vietname earlier this year!
I’ve obtained an Eheim 2030, flow rate is 1200 l/h and uses an oil cooled Eheim 1030 external pump, this is an earlier version of the Eheim 2260, filter capacity is 18l, because the Eheim 2260 was based on this earlier model, it shares the same parts, this filter has a grey finish, unlike the 2260 which is green, and the latter uses a new external pump a 1060 or 1260.
It has a small leak on the inlet, so I’ve been using PTFE “plumbers” tape and superglue to seal the leak. I hope to have it installed shortly on another new tank.
Tags: andysworld, aquablog, bblog, blog, feeding, fish, fish house, house
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
I’ve added a new RSS 2.0 Feeds sub-menu on the right side-bar. It looks like this:-
Select the approriate feed. The only difference is the Angelfishcam service status has been excluded from the main Fish House blog events.
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