The Milwaukee Aquarium Society is having its Fish-O-Rama Spring Swap Meet Sunday, May 3, 2009 from 10 AM to 2 PM.
Bring your family out to the Milwaukee area Sunday. The Fish-O-Ramas are fun events if you're into aquarium hobbies.
For more information, visit the aquarium society's website. www.milwaukeeaquariumsociety.com
I'm still a very avid freshwater aquarium gardener. I pay special attention to my aquariums every day and continue to add plants whenever I have a chance. However, I have not posted on these activities all summer.
At the moment, I am especially busy with another hobby of mine: Retro-computers. To be more precise, I am currently working on a project to build an Amiga 1000 from scratch. Yes, from scratch, meaning that I will populate the bare PCB with all the necessary chips and parts. I see this as a challenging project since some of the parts may be difficult to obtain and also due to the surface mount soldering needed. I was once trained for SMT while working at DEC, but it's been many moons since I've even touched an iron.
The Amiga 1000 computer was a popular home computer in the mid 1980s. It was built by Commodore, the same company that made the extremely popular Commodore 64.
The idea of building one from scratch came from a project developed by Georg Braun. Georg designed a new motherboard for the Amiga known as the GB A1000. Several individuals on Amiga forums such as Amiga.org expressed the desire for Georg's GB A1000.
After some valiant coordination, a series of these boards are being manufactured.
We are now waiting to receive our empty boards, gathering as much knowledge as possible in
preparation for the work.
I do not have a photo of the bare PCB yet. These are being manufactured. At the moment, I am busy building the website for the project. If you want to learn more about building a GB A1000, visit www.gba1000.info.
From time to time, I quit writing altogether. I do not lack in things to write about, I just loose interest momentarily. This is phase. I tend to gravitate away from my hobbies from time to time and come back to them after a while.
I continue to maintain my freshwater planted aquariums, feed the fish, trim the plants, but I am currently not interested in writing about this subject. This is how it is with me.
At any rate, summer is here and there's plenty to do outside. I'll probably be back in a few weeks. Hope my articles have been useful to some. Get yourself outside for some fresh air. Enjoy the sunshine. Thanks for visiting.
This nice fish was sold to me as Siamese Algae Eater. I'm not sure of its real name. The fish was very hardy. It lived long and well in my aquariums but was a bit aggressive and easily uprooted plants.
<- Previous FOTDHygrophila polysperma: This plant is a very invasive weed and cannot be sold anywhere in the US as far as I know. Makes a good aquarium plant though. Grows fast and looks great.
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I tried to snap red Platy but I got this wispy side-effect instead. Thought it looked good anyway.
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Stumbled onto a good source of information for planted aquariums. Check out Rex's Planted Tank Guide, especially the page related to nutrients.
Rex's blog has good articles on lighting, water chemistry, CO2, nutrients, hardware, substrates and many other things related to freshwater planted aquariums.
Well...There's also a fruitcake recipe.
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A new bunch of Hydrocotyle leucocephala introduced yesterday evening. It's the plant in the middle mid-ground with the umbrella-like foliage. Click here to see more pictures of this plant.
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