Dec 31 2006

Happy New Year

I would like to wish all visitors a happy new year, be careful with the fireworks ;) .


Dec 30 2006

Some spare E.tenellus

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I had to cut loose a corner piece of my E.tenellus mat because it came loose when i was messing around in the aquarium.
This piece is about 10x10cm / 4x4in but there is a whole bottom left in the aquarium with E.tenellus :)
It surely is a plant which can take over the aquarium when it has established.


Dec 30 2006

Yet another water change

Well another week has passed….

Water values:
Fe = 0.1ppm
PO4 = 1ppm
NO3 = 10ppm

Growth:
so so, no big different from last week, some sprouts on the R.macaranda seems to be quite nice, E.stallata seems to be very similar to last week, some sprouts are fine but it’s very slow.


Dec 25 2006

Christmas present for my son

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I gave my son a digital camera for present, he got the cheapest Canon camera (A430 “Blue”), it is really impressive for the money.
He is 6-1/2 years old and some of his pictures is very good, here is some samples.


Dec 24 2006

Merry Christmas

I would like to wish all visitors of this site a very merry Christmas.


Dec 24 2006

Status after 1 week

It has now past one week with the new nutrition dosing schedule, this is the current status,

Measurement values:
NO3 = 5ppm
PO4 = 1ppm
Fe = 0.8ppm

Visual status:
During the past week the bubble from the plant has been quite similar to the weeks before the change, maybe slightly less in the end of the week.
It looks like the new growth of the Rotala Macaranda and Eusteralis Stellata is better than before but it is still to early to say for sure.
I cant se any deficiency symptoms.


Dec 23 2006

Extended CoreBlog2 Comment notification

With the help of CoreBlog’s mailing list (a big thanx to Mr.Nakai, Mr.Welter and Mr.Shibata) I have got the help to make it possible for CoreBlog2 to send notification mail to the ones who have made comments, this is done to make it possible to get a notification when a new comment is added to the same entry.
Full notification is always sent to the blog admin and the blog setting “Send a notification mail on new comment” is reused to setting the commentator notification on/off instead, these mails only contains the URL to the entry.
The mails are sent separately to keep the integrity and security intact.

This is the code needed in cbaddComment:

#Send notify mail to blog admin

try:
    to_addr   = context.getNotify_to()
    from_addr = context.getNotify_from()
    msgbody = context.translate('comment_notify_body')
    elements = {}
    for k in ('title','author','url','body'):
        if REQUEST.form.has_key(k):
            elements[k] = REQUEST.form[k]
        else:
            elements[k] = ''
    elements['post_ip'] = REQUEST.getClientAddr()
    elements['entry_url'] = context.absolute_url()
    msgbody = msgbody % (elements)
    msgsubject = context.translate('comment_notify_title')
    mgsheader = """To: %s
From: %s
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; Charset=utf-8

""" % (to_addr,from_addr)
    cbtool.send_mail(mgsheader+msgbody, to_addr, from_addr, msgsubject)

# check status of notification mail setting
    if context.getSend_comment_notification():

#Get email addresses for commentators
        com_list = context.getComment()
        addr_list = []
        for com in com_list:
            if not addr_list.count(com.getEmail()):
                addr_list.append(com.getEmail())

#Send notify mail if need to commentators

        try:
            for addr in addr_list:
                if addr == REQUEST.form['email']:
                    continue
                else:
                    to_addr = addr
                    from_addr = context.getNotify_from()
                    msgbody = context.absolute_url()
                    msgsubject = context.translate('comment_notify_title')
                    mgsheader = """To: %s
From: %s
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; Charset=utf-8

""" % (to_addr,from_addr)
                    cbtool.send_mail(mgsheader+msgbody, to_addr, from_addr, msgsubject)

        except Exception,e:
             log( 'COREBlog2/cbaddComment: '
                     'Some exception occured, %s' % e )

except Exception,e:
    log( 'COREBlog2/cbaddComment: '
             'Some exception occured, %s' % e )

Replaces:

#Send notify mail if need
if context.getSend_comment_notification():
    try:
        to_addr   = context.getNotify_to()
        from_addr = context.getNotify_to()
        msgbody = context.translate('comment_notify_body')
        elements = {}
        for k in ('title','author','url','body'):
            if REQUEST.form.has_key(k):
                elements[k] = REQUEST.form[k]
            else:
                elements[k] = ''
        elements['post_ip'] = REQUEST.getClientAddr()
        elements['entry_url'] = context.absolute_url()
        msgbody = msgbody % (elements)
        msgsubject = context.translate('comment_notify_title')
        mgsheader = """To: %s
From: %s
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; Charset=utf-8

""" % (to_addr,from_addr)
        cbtool.send_mail(mgsheader+msgbody, to_addr, from_addr, msgsubject)

    except Exception,e:
        log( 'COREBlog2/cbaddComment: '
                 'Some exception occured, %s' % e )

Dec 16 2006

Explanation

I will explain a bit more why i am going to make the changes in the prior post.

In my aquarium i have 14 types of plants, 3 of these are totally stunned, 2 is growing but very poorly.
The ones which are growing normally are growing very well and the bubbling is heavy in the aquarium all week between the water changes.

This is the reason why i would like to try something else, i think it’s very interesting that kekon had in some configurations some plants to thrive but not others, and that he had had all plants to thrive at one point.

It will probably take me a couple of weeks to tune in the nutritions to resemble the best working configuration, but it will be interesting to see if it affects the bubbling from start.

Before the change i have been having a rich nutrition schedule, the measurements today showed:

NO3 = 40ppm
PO4 = 2.5ppm
Fe = 0.5ppm


Dec 15 2006

Lowering nutrition level

I will try to lower my nutrition levels after reading this thread on APC, I will try to adjust it to resemble kekon’s values when it was working as best for him.

I have adjusted the auto dosing and at tomorrows water change it will start for real.


Dec 13 2006

Heteranthera zosterifolia flower

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Today I discovered that one part of my aquarium is adorned with tiny blue-purple flowers.

Edit: added another photo.