and
John's
house (our Chinchillas).
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John'shouse (our Chinchillas).
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| Chris and Christa (Guinea pigs) live upstairs from
John and Rosie. The Turtle Cam Camera is hidden in the top of Rosie and
John's house. The camera is connected to a Snappy and the Snappy of course is connected to a computer in another room…no pets allowed!
I wrote a program to take a picture every minute and then use ftp to copy the picture to my providers web server. The program saves the last six pictures and takes 6 pictures every morning when I feed the turtles. The program I wrote to control the Turtle Cam is not for sale! If you want to set up your own camera site you might want to consider using SnapCap. |
I built this filter to keep the turtles water clean. The water drains from the turtle tank into the chamber on the left side. The water first passes through a large sponge type filter, then a carbon filter. The second and third chamber contain biological filtration media that removes ammonia and nitrites from the water (these are toxic to fish and turtles!). I mounted a full spectrum light above the last chamber in the filter to give algae and other plants a good place to grow. The plants remove nitrates from the water. Nitrates are not harmful to fresh water fish or turtles but will cause excessive algae growth. By encouraging plants to grow in the filter system it keeps algae growth in the aquarium to a minimum!
