my install of the air circulation system
November 20, 2010 - I finished off my version of the air circulation system and installed it on a 3/16 piece of ABS plastic. I also added in...
Read the Full Post »
air circulation revisited
November 20, 2010 - I decided to take a trip to Fry’s Electronics, Home Depot, and Orchard Hardware Supply to see if I could make this air c...
Read the Full Post »
pricing out diy air circulation
November 18, 2010 - Well everything started dying in the fruit fly culture with mold, and in two of the old cultures. So now I only have two...
Read the Full Post »
culture number two
November 15, 2010 - So it seems to take around 10 to 14 days for a culture to grow. Today I’ve start culture number two based on my own mix.
Read the Full Post »
mold is bad
November 14, 2010 - So the Fruit Fly cultures from 11/27 hatched in two weeks. One of the cultures from 11/3 got mold around the same time....
Read the Full Post »
polyurethane and dart frogs
November 10, 2010 - I admit to being a little frustrated when I cleaned the excess coir off the foam background, only to find the silicon I...
Read the Full Post »
dart frog vivarium component list
November 10, 2010 - My objective is to build desktop vivariums for thumbnail poison dart frogs.
I chose the desktop vivarium concept becaus...
Read the Full Post »
the first build – part 1
November 09, 2010 - So after getting the aquarium I decided it was time to start the build. This is my first vivarium of eight I am planning...
Read the Full Post »
finding a frameless aquarium
November 07, 2010 - Pulling the frame off the 10 gallon aquarium didn’t work out as well as I’d hoped. The Top Fin Aquarium from PetSmart wa...
Read the Full Post »
sleeping in bromeliads
November 05, 2010 - Around 10 or 11pm my dart frogs head for bed. Unfortunately they don’t have enough beds. Or maybe the other beds are eit...
Read the Full Post »
larva means maggots
November 04, 2010 - It’s been 8 days since I started a new fruit fly culture. A couple days ago I could see the little maggots on the plasti...
Read the Full Post »