Temple ball
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What is it for?
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I never got to see the full aftermath; however, it is still struggling in someways to come back. But its nature and it will continue to do its thing.
This year it didnât fully green up due to a very dry summer.
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lol itâs home made hashish you can smoke/vape it
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Looks very much like those Nepalese Temple Balls.
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Frenchy cannoli style!
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Use to get it in blocks, never seen any balls, I reckon thatâs the homemade part of it 
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This photo reminds me of the time I was in Jamaica. The local Rastaâs didnât have access to rolling papers so they improvised and rolled with pieces of brown paper bags from the grocery store. The paper taste wasnât that good, but after a minute we didnât care. 
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My hobby âworkâ is trying to get folks in my sphere to relax a little bit! I let them know:
I have 2 kayaks strapped to the top of my truck (or can be, given a 20 minute âbug outâ clock ticking) and all gak necessary to spend a couple of hours on the water (or in the woods) melting away the worries of the day, week, month, or year(s).
Nature is a balm for the body and mind, when life has not been so kind!
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⌠a civilized cup of tea, even though youâre out in the middle of nowhere⌠gotta do it! Itâs the perfect precursor to a beautiful sunset on the water!
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Building a new fish tank now that I have more space after the move.
Thatâs it so far. No fish yet, but lots of algea. Plants are starting to grow, just added a bunch. Once they get the upper hand, the algea should disappear or drop to an acceptable level.
Itâs 160x60x60cm, roughly 550 litres minus the wood and rocks and stuff. Aiming for south american river ecosystem with mainly cichlids, catfish and tetras.
Iâm mixing the water for the tank in 2 water butts. In this pic you see one of these toilet cistern filler swimmer valves, the stop the water when itâs full.
The water is coming from the Reverse osmosis:
Itâs like a very fine filter, the water is coming out of there with 8ppm of desolved solids, no more medication leftovers or any heavy metals. Like distilled water. Iâm then adding a liquid and a solid salt mix to get the water hardness to the recommended levels. Without it, the water has no buffering capacity against acids and animals like shrimp couldnât build up their sceletons.
To control the amount of dissolved CO2 in the water, (you want some in the water as plant nutrients) Iâm building a controller from an Arduino board (tiny computers without monitor and keyboard, like in a washing mashine or something)
Still looking a bit wild without an enclosure. You can see the main Arduino board with a 4x4 keypad, a relay to control the CO2 and the pH sensor pcb
The whole thing will be controlled by a 5" touch screen. Until that arrives I created a user interface to control the thing from the computer. In the top left square you have the real time pH Value, the actual Voltage from the probe and the state of the relay.
In the top right you can set the Threshold. when the probe senses a pH value above the threshold, the relay opens and CO2 gets into the tank with a special diffusor to dissolve the CO2 in the water. More acid in the water lowers the pH level. Once the threshold has been reached again, the CO2 will stop. At night when tehre is no light, the CO2 stops alltogether.
This way you always have the right amount of CO2 in the water.
The software is in an early stage, and hereâs the funny bit: I canât actually write any code. I have an idea how c++ code is structured and can figure out individual lines of code or an individual method or something. But I canât write code from scratch. So I asked ChatGPT to give me a hand and suddenly I realized that being a programmer these days is NOT a job with a big future. ChatGPT understands all the problems and writes really pretty code. Sometimes you run into a dead end and it repeats stupid errors. But if you describe the problem properly you usually get the thing to work. Also, you have to state how the code shoud be structured, for example using methods to secure individual code parts against the influence of other code parts. Otherwise you work on one function and another stops working.
Updates are coming with the progress on the controller and the tank itself.
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Thank you so much! Trying to cobble all my knowledge and half-knowledge together, But the whole project wouldnât exist without ChatGPT or somebody who knows their way around c++ and python programming.
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Wow, thatâs quite a project. Color me impressed!
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Years ago I had a few freshwater tanks and made the switch to saltwater. The expense and the upkeep were way more than I anticipated, but totally worth the end result!
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