2026/02/19

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2026-02-19 06:08:11 +0100merijn(~merijn@host-cl.cgnat-g.v4.dfn.nl) merijn
2026-02-19 06:07:57 +0100 <edwardk> the big freshwater tank has an autmatic water change system and just sort of takes care of itself. the big reef tank, will not be so hands off.
2026-02-19 06:06:57 +0100 <edwardk> but it feels a bit underwhelming in comparison ;)
2026-02-19 06:06:49 +0100 <edwardk> for reading the co2 sensor in the room and updating the dashboard
2026-02-19 06:06:19 +0100Frostillicus(~Frostilli@pool-71-174-119-69.bstnma.fios.verizon.net) (Ping timeout: 264 seconds)
2026-02-19 06:06:17 +0100 <edwardk> *mix
2026-02-19 06:06:14 +0100 <edwardk> i do have a bit of haskell in the mi
2026-02-19 06:04:35 +0100 <edwardk> trying to convince my wife we can keep epaulette sharks. she's not amused.
2026-02-19 06:03:55 +0100 <edwardk> and i'm kind of glad i didn't pull the trigger on my previous 1100 gallon plan!
2026-02-19 06:03:37 +0100 <edwardk> but compared to the "huge to me" 450 gallon stingray tank this is insane.
2026-02-19 06:03:09 +0100 <edwardk> i'm sure to anyone who has been doing this as a hobby for a long time this is nothing
2026-02-19 06:02:57 +0100 <edwardk> so dosing pumps for kalkwasser for the calcium+alkalinity, automatic top off, testing equipment and probes.
2026-02-19 06:01:38 +0100 <edwardk> THEN i have to scrub that away before it reaches the air around the display tank
2026-02-19 06:01:38 +0100 <edwardk> i have probes for basically everything. Calcium, Alkalinity, Magnesium matter for the cyphastrea. nitrate/phosphate mix as well. then we have the problem that a puffer and zebra moray eel both crunch the usual cleanup crew of a saltwater aquarium. which is why i can't run most corals. most of the things that would keep them healthy will get eaten. so i have to do nutrient export via a gigantic protein skimmer with injected ozone, but
2026-02-19 05:59:26 +0100 <edwardk> for the 200 gallon there _is_ an electronic control subsystem. =)
2026-02-19 05:58:43 +0100Frostillicus(~Frostilli@pool-71-174-119-69.bstnma.fios.verizon.net)
2026-02-19 05:58:37 +0100 <edwardk> the fowlr tank is proving to be quite the engineering challenge, just because it turns out keeping 6 55 gallon drums worth of saltwater up and running and in tune is a lot of work (display + sump = a lot of water), and the 50 gallon is its own challenge because dragonets only eat a narrow diet and s it basically is an underwater bug farm with a couple of flashy fish on top of the ecsystem.
2026-02-19 05:57:41 +0100merijn(~merijn@host-cl.cgnat-g.v4.dfn.nl) (Ping timeout: 272 seconds)
2026-02-19 05:56:50 +0100 <edwardk> and a 50 gallon reef tank that will actually have a bunch of corals in it, which is being set up to house a pair of green mandarin dragonets and some more standard saltwater fish and cleanup crew.
2026-02-19 05:56:04 +0100 <edwardk> but we're in the process of setting up a 200 gallon reef tank (FOWLR, fish-only-with-live-rock) to house a porcupine pufferfish and a zebra moray eel (and some misc fish). mostly a non-coral saltwater tank, though, some cyphastrea corals becaue they encrust and are harder for a puffer to just sample with his teeth, because his teeth are how he explores the world
2026-02-19 05:55:13 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> awesome
2026-02-19 05:53:47 +0100 <edwardk> so now the stingray has his own 450 gallon tank elsewhere in the house. and the koi have since grown up and moved outside and the 300 gallon is now a community tank full of various noodly looking fish (ropefish, dojo loaches, etc)
2026-02-19 05:53:10 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> yikes
2026-02-19 05:52:50 +0100merijn(~merijn@host-cl.cgnat-g.v4.dfn.nl) merijn
2026-02-19 05:52:49 +0100 <edwardk> i wound up having to set up a 300 gallon tank in my livingroom for a bunch of baby koi that were born in the backyard way out of season. then we adopted a stingray, because i really only needed 150 gallons to hold all the koi and he was sad. he was a good houseguest of the koi for 6 months. then he discovered they were tasty
2026-02-19 05:52:37 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> there shall be a haskell-based embedded reef tank ecology controller
2026-02-19 05:51:50 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> we'll tie it back to haskell
2026-02-19 05:51:47 +0100 <edwardk> okay. will move the moment someone complains. =)
2026-02-19 05:51:35 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> nothing else happening here :)
2026-02-19 05:51:28 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> yes, tell about the fish ?
2026-02-19 05:50:55 +0100 <humasect> i want to hear about the fish
2026-02-19 05:50:32 +0100 <edwardk> er.. happy to move that to #haskell-offtopic if folks get annoyed at me talking about fish
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2026-02-19 05:50:01 +0100 <edwardk> haskellbridge/sm: water is heavy. it doesn't take much volume before you hit the ton marker!
2026-02-19 05:47:22 +0100 <haskellbridge> <sm> reef tank.. tons of seawater, you say...
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2026-02-19 05:33:39 +0100caz(866183745f@2a03:6000:1812:100::15d4) caz
2026-02-19 05:33:32 +0100 <jreicher> I'm almost inclined to say that for stepping purposes it might be worth giving the user to evaluate everything strictly with control over when/where the evaluation is "skipped" (obviously not needed expressions)
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2026-02-19 05:32:18 +0100 <jreicher> edwardk: Oh that is fun. I've often thought about experimenting with something like that.
2026-02-19 05:31:59 +0100michalz(~michalz@185.246.207.203)