• @tal@lemmy.today
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        18 hours ago

        Just give me a 4U tank somewhere where someone else can deal with harvesting the algae and a webcam aimed at it and I can enjoy it just fine from here. For me, selfhosting is mostly about the privacy, not principally about needing to be resistant to loss of Internet connectivity or the like.

      • Jake Farm
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        819 hours ago

        I have seen a few guides on growing your own algae including from CodySlab.

    • DUMBASS
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      1420 hours ago

      Come on, you know there’s someone out there trying to work out how to selfhost one of these.

        • Miles O'Brien
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          919 hours ago

          birth bath

          Uhhhhhh you should probably at least drain out the placenta fluid…

        • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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          119 hours ago

          You should look up “Walstad planted tank”. An all plants aquarium you don’t ever have to mess with (except to trim if you want to)

          • @SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net
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            25 hours ago

            I’ve been doing these for years… they don’t work as intended for more than a year or two, and then become pretty unstable. Even the lady who created it went back to low-maintenance (as opposed to zero input) systems after a few years. Still with the dirt and all but not without water movement and stuff.

            • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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              13 hours ago

              Awesome! yeah, there’s a variant where you can seal the jar, but for the most part exactly what you said is the norm. I’ve had mine for roughly 5 years now, but I added shrimp and trim it back about once a month or so . I don’t even feed the tank more than a few times a week.