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Friday, March 25, 2005
Aqua Star Trading
http://www.aquastar.com.sg
Quite a well establish LFS in Yishun.
It spans three shop houses. One for various aquarium equipments. One for fishs, both freshwater & marine. And one for ornaments and decorative accessories.
As recommended by a friend, I head down to aqua star in search of an apple snail.
Effortlessly, I found it, along with some other great buys.
Resulting in the purchase of an apple snail,a cory,a yamato and two puffers.
All at 1 buck each!
Rather cheap I must say.
Cheaper than Rainbow's prices at least.
6apple snail
6yamato
6my old albino cory
6my current setup(one behind and above the other along with a lamp)
http://www.aquastar.com.sg
Quite a well establish LFS in Yishun.
It spans three shop houses. One for various aquarium equipments. One for fishs, both freshwater & marine. And one for ornaments and decorative accessories.
As recommended by a friend, I head down to aqua star in search of an apple snail.
Effortlessly, I found it, along with some other great buys.
Resulting in the purchase of an apple snail,a cory,a yamato and two puffers.
All at 1 buck each!
Rather cheap I must say.
Cheaper than Rainbow's prices at least.
6apple snail
6yamato
6my old albino cory
6my current setup(one behind and above the other along with a lamp)
Friday, March 11, 2005
Puffers and Pelco
Puffers are cute little fishes that look a little like ET.
Pelcos are grotesque buggers who like to munch on the algae in the tank.
6this little puffer likes to hang around the filter
6this little puffer couldn't keep its mouth shut
6this little puffer finally allows me to take a proper pic of him
6this little puffer is kinda camera-shy
6what are you staring at?!
6pelcos can have glam-shots too, you know...
6lying still is his forte
6pelco in action, sucking on the scum
Puffers are cute little fishes that look a little like ET.
Pelcos are grotesque buggers who like to munch on the algae in the tank.
6this little puffer likes to hang around the filter
6this little puffer couldn't keep its mouth shut
6this little puffer finally allows me to take a proper pic of him
6this little puffer is kinda camera-shy
6what are you staring at?!
6pelcos can have glam-shots too, you know...
6lying still is his forte
6pelco in action, sucking on the scum
LED Lamp for Tank
I'd need some time to do this little project because I'd need to find time to go to the workshop to "source" for some raw materials to fabricate the chasis of the lamp.
But the initial circuit testing has been done.
Six ultra bright white LEDs are to be used for the lamp.
From the pics, it seems like blue LEDs are also not bad.
So, I'm think of having a total of twelve LEDs (6 white & 6 blue) and a switch to choose what colour of light I want. Thus, only six LEDs are operating at one time.
6blue and white LEDs (I only have 2 whites & 4 blues a the moment)
6close-up on the white
6top down shot
The power that I'm using to drive the LEDs are from an old "chiong" charger for a panasonic handphone.
It's rated as 5 - 11V, but upon measurement, it could only give out about 6.5V.
Hence, the resistors I'm using are about 200ohms. I intend to get lower valued resistors so as to achieve better brightness of the LEDs.
I've also dismantled the charging head so that I could extract the wires for testing.
6ratings of the adapter
6adapter head dismantled
I'd need some time to do this little project because I'd need to find time to go to the workshop to "source" for some raw materials to fabricate the chasis of the lamp.
But the initial circuit testing has been done.
Six ultra bright white LEDs are to be used for the lamp.
From the pics, it seems like blue LEDs are also not bad.
So, I'm think of having a total of twelve LEDs (6 white & 6 blue) and a switch to choose what colour of light I want. Thus, only six LEDs are operating at one time.
6blue and white LEDs (I only have 2 whites & 4 blues a the moment)
6close-up on the white
6top down shot
The power that I'm using to drive the LEDs are from an old "chiong" charger for a panasonic handphone.
It's rated as 5 - 11V, but upon measurement, it could only give out about 6.5V.
Hence, the resistors I'm using are about 200ohms. I intend to get lower valued resistors so as to achieve better brightness of the LEDs.
I've also dismantled the charging head so that I could extract the wires for testing.
6ratings of the adapter
6adapter head dismantled
Saturday, March 05, 2005
Simple Five Plan
Petmart - an organisation that has achieved international ISO standards.
Hence I bought a tank($15) from them...and a steel valve($2) too.
618L Five Plan Glass Tank (35.9 x 22 x 26.2cm)(which feels like plastic when touched)
6The lid
6The interior joints
6Five Plan logo
6Five Plan label(Made in Japan)
6Twin air outlet steel valve
6The old twin air outlet plastic valve
6Macro shot of the valve taps
Petmart - an organisation that has achieved international ISO standards.
Hence I bought a tank($15) from them...and a steel valve($2) too.
618L Five Plan Glass Tank (35.9 x 22 x 26.2cm)(which feels like plastic when touched)
6The lid
6The interior joints
6Five Plan logo
6Five Plan label(Made in Japan)
6Twin air outlet steel valve
6The old twin air outlet plastic valve
6Macro shot of the valve taps