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http://video.google.com/ is another place to upload your videos

forms are here http://www.fnzas.org.nz/events/

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is this the one? http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/calcul ... t7979.html

Here are a few reason I can think of you should register as a user of this site? 1. We'd like to get to know you and welcome you on this site. 2. As a member you will be able to start topics and post replies. 3. There are a couple more forums available to you as a registered member. 4. A couple of "styles' to choose from. 5. As a member you have access to our private message system and will be able to contact other members directly. So, join us and register. Keep in mind that we manually check every registration and that could take a few hours.

Use a sump with a trickle filter. Use CO2 injection in the sump. Use a powerfull pump to get good current in the tank, this will give good CO2/O2 exchange on the plant leaves. CO2 loss with a sump/trickle filter is not a major issue when you inject CO2, just inject a little more. O2 levels with a trickle filter will be close to saturation all the time (even at night) which is good. Read "the optimum aqaurium" by the dupla guys (K Horst, H E Kipper), explains it all. A good summary of the book is here http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Tech/golden-rules.html

Your right Alan. my mistake. Leaf is different

correct me if I'm wrong but is this another case of "peace lilly" sold as aquatic plant ? see http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/anyone ... t7711.html and Spathiphyllum wallisii

As far as I know sodiumthiosulfate is the ingredient in the shop bought water agers/waterconditioners/dechlorinators. At the low concentration used it's probably safer then the chlorine it destroys. Not sure where to buy it in bulk though. from memory it is about 7 gram/ 100mL For a solution that will treat/age 1 liter with 1 drop. (Make sure you check this becasue I'm not 100% certain, been a while since I made some) What I usually do with my guppy tanks after I bleach them is to wash them with salt (sodiumchloride), rinse them and let the tank dry out completely. Dry for a day will usually do it.

not quite. like to think we are a community and find compromises that fits everyone I'm not upset about this. Good healthy discussions. I'm angry about this absolutely horrible meal I had yesterday. Farewell dinner for someone who worked in office at Brichville school for 30 years. Can't name the restaurant. Dinner supposed to start at 7 pm. My mains was served at 9:30 pm. The food was disgusting. Anyway mystic. Don't worry about me. fwiw, Billaney and I are fine.

Being somewhat academically minded myself I too can argue a point regardless of whether I agree with it or not. Some debates are with myself and that does make things interesting sometimes. However, the issue we are discussing here is the use of embedded images in posts i.e. using the tag to load images from other servers. About this issue I do take full responsibily for what I post here and not just "present a point of view". If you search the site you will find that I have asked on many occasions that the users do the following 1. Post a low quality, small size photo here using the tag (call it an oversize thumbnail if you wish) 2. Provide a link to the higher quality photo (I sound like a broken record) Simple, easy to do and does cater for everyones needs. We could debate issues here all weeked (like functionality and design are seperate topics. But than again we probably have different definitions of what is functionality and what is design) but I don't want to do that. cheers Cees

Don't hide behind this statement. You are taking sides. I agree with most of what your saying though. Yes as a general rule of thumb what you are saying about 'Human Computer Interaction' could be correct. However, I'm not interested in generalities. I'm much more excited about the exceptions. I'm much more interested in website experience than computer interaction. Two different things. I'm not worried about the user that expects to see a post with large images and has a large screen resolution. She/he will stay regardless. I want to capture those that do arrive here by organic search results and do 'click back' to soon because someone posted a topic with a tag to a (again a word I can't say) big photo on some other server over which I have no control. I'm worried about the one that clicked a link to this site and doesn't know what to expect. And yes I do wish to cater for the needs of this site's users as well. User experience on a 72dpi screen is pretty much the same with low quality/ smallish photos as it is with so-called high quality large size photos. Therefor there is absolutely no reason to slow this site down with large images. And don't get me started on flash-intros... Surely there must be 'a compromise' or a 'happy medium'. I've suggested it before and I will suggested it again. Do the following to keep this site fast and still cater for those who wish to see high definition photos 1. Post a low quality, small size photo here using the tag (call it an oversize thumbnail if you wish) 2. Provide a link to the higher quality photo How hard can it be ? Thanks for the kind words about the design of this site. I am absolutely horrible at design. Much better at functionality. That's why the site still uses an almost unmodified phpbb standard template. So, it's not my fault.

Ok I'll bite. The three !!! were because I finally got angry. At that time there was a big (something I can't say) notice at the top of each page asking to please deal with the image sizes and you still ignored it that's why. It's not about dialup users (even though they would enjoy the site more if the linked images were smaller). It's not about bandwidth because we're talking about hotlinked images. It's about site layout, user experience and maintaining, capturing new visitors. Stats show that new visitors need only 5 seconds to find the back button. If the site hasn't loaded by then I've lost them. My loss, the FNZAS's loss, clubs loss, your loss. Could have been a valuable new member to this community. And yes I'm angry, not because of the images but because I have just had the worst restaurant experience ever. But that's a different story. And it's Cees. not Cee's, not Cess

no need for this post Paul. You could've replied to my pm and we would've sorted it. I have asked the users of this site on many occassions to at least limit the width of photos to a maximum of 640px and to try to use a decent compression to get photos below 100 kbyte (preferably below 60kbyte). The members tank section is the only area where I have direct control and I will ask people to change photos when to big. In the not to distant future the use of the in regular posts will be managed differently. For most people this is not a problem because they comply anyway. For others ... too bad

Thanks for that. Something to study. Does make sense .

okidoki. split the original topic and moved it here. Setup is a whole bunch of wires through the whole house to deal with computer network, phone network, micro-lan (for weather station and fishroom monitoring with 1-wire devices) and video-signal. This is the current status: Computer network is fine. Phone has a few problems. Microlan works but is not fully integrated Video works. I want to get rid of those bt-phone sockets and have all modular rj45 sockets though the house. That way I can decide whether a socket is computer/phone/microlan and all I need to do is move a patch cable around in the central location where the patchpanels are. Phone is confusing still. Cees

I realise this should really be another topic in another fourm. Perhaps one of the mods will come in and split the topic. Anyway, what then makes the phone ring? Voltage, current, brainwaves ??. What is missing in my setup then? I'll do some more testing with different configurations tonight. For now all I know is that if I use a bt-socket at the end of the line (going through patchpanel and so on) Phone A and B have dialtone, phone A rings but phone B doesn't . If I use rj45 socket at end of line both phones have dialtone but now only phone B will ring. What am I missing, what's the difference. I think I wil have to draw it all because I must be making a mistake somewhere.

I'm following the above with interest (while scratching my head and put another searchphrase into google ;-) ) I'm pretty sure I've got it all wired in ok because the phones work except for the ringing. In a 2-wire jackpoint as Billaney says points 1 , 2 & 3 are looped together and points 4,5 & 6 together. Do they go straight through ? In otherwords taking signal from the front with a bt plug is the same as taking signal from 1,2,3 and 4,5,6 from the back ? Or does the jackpoint do something to it ?

Before I started on this adventure all wall sockets where 2-wire and working fine. But, seem to remember now that I'm talking about it that the phone that is now ringing is the one that didn't work then. Was one I bought in Canada when a student there. The whole idea is to get rid of these bt-jackpoints. Perhaps I can't ? Something funny with the NZ phones ?

All phones work. All have dialtone, can talk etc. But, some ring some don't . even when they are the only phone connected. I must have my wires crossed somewhere For initial testing I'm taking 2-wire phone of the back of the first 2-wire jackpoint in the house into patch panel . No other jackpoints are connected. back of 2 wire jackpoint ->plug into front (rj45) of patchpanel -> cat5e to rj45 wall socket -> phone In this setup one phone rings normally, the other phone doesn't. All have dialtone. If I replace the rj45 wall socket with an ordinary bt-wall socket I know for sure that the phones that didn't ring before will ring now, haven't checked the other (working) one, must do that. Got me stumped. Eventually I will take the incoming phoneline (after the adsl split) into a separate phone patchpanel 2 wire incoming (via a bt-jackpoint ?) -> phone patchpanel -> cat5e/rj45 patchpanel -> to rj45 wall socket(s) -> phone and adsl -> modem -> switch -> cat5e/rj45 patchpanel -> to rj45 wall socket(s) -> computer My understanding sofar is that that's the way it should work. All rj45 wall sockets etc are fine because the patch into switch for computer works just fine.

One happy chappy. Been busy pulling cat5 wires all over the house. Busy hooking things up. One day I'll write it all up and post it here somewhere. All I need to figure out now is why some phones ring and others don't ... fwiw 1-wire weather station is running now as well and even have some sensors in my fishroom (see graph below) The live fishroom webcam is coming soon.

Very nice start. Some advice (taken from dupla's book 'the optimum aquarium') a) Put a few fish in now (not too many) you can afford too loose (just in case) to help cycle. Guppies, mollies, platies whatever. b) Put some (6 or more) Crossocheilus siamensis in (Siamese algae eater). Not to be confused with the flying fox (search google for pictures to help you identify (see http://www.thekrib.com/Fish/Algae-Eaters/ ). These fish will deal with any red (beard/brush) algae. This is the stuff that looks like black hair. Don't feed them much (or not at all) and they will keep the tank clean now in and the future.

care to write a little summary of that ? review it ?

Doc http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/linkin ... t8669.html please.

The boss said yes ... early Xmas present coming up :bounce: (Weather, tank temperatures, hydroponics, telescope ... lots of potential with 1-wire sensors )