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Topic: Pond Pondcam turned off for the Winter
11 Nov 2001

This weekend is the pond cleanout weekend. The camera is out of the pond, to return in the spring. It turns out that there is a small water leak as there was about a teaspoonful of water inside the housing. Happily it hadn't reached the camera module itself.

This year we have too many plants to fit in the bottom of the pond, so some will have to overwinter in the basement.

We are going to leave the baby fish (now up to three inches) in the top pond. This means that I need to get another pump and airstone for it. Unfortunately Tetra have stopped making the TetraLuft pump that I use for the bottom pond.

Update: I got a Tetra DW96 and hooked it up, and it seems to work. I can't take the waterfall pump out as one of the valves doesn't fully close any more. I need to visit Home Depot to get more plumbing parts!

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Rolodex

cwop
The Citizen Weather Observer Program is a loose collection of amateur weather station operators.

spf-pobox
Information about SPF (Sender Permitted From)

docsearls
The Doc Searls weblog -- he seems clueful and I read him.

ffmpeg
Open source audio/video streaming software -- this drives my pondcam

jreceiver
Open source server for the Rio Receiver -- this is what I use.

gunnera
Neat description of the Gunnera Manicata -- a truly monstrous plant!

Philip Gladstone