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Introducing NoGi’s Yellow Nano Fun Park

This is going to be my first serious attempt at a shrimp breeding tank. I am calling this my Yellow Nano Fun Park: Yellow - colour of the shrimp I will keep Nano - nano cube Fun - hopefully they will have so much fun that they will breed Park - lots of low growing carpet and moss Project Goals: Apply knowledge gained from the experts over at the AquariumLife forums Build a fun place for the shrimp I intend to keep Keep it simple and visually pleasing Support AquariumLife sponsors where possible for any required new equipment Current Equipment List:

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DIY LED Lighting for a Freshwater Planted Aquarium

I’ve been on the hunt for some good lighting for my tank and some of the prices for a good LED system simply blew me away. For what I want it’s costing somewhere between $2k - $3.5k. Instead, I’ve opted to investigate the DIY option from RapidLED: Cree XM-L (Neutral) x 18 Cree XM-L (Cool White) x 18 Cree XP-E (Blue) x 6 Cree XP-E (Royal Blue) x 6 Osram Golden Dragon (660 Red) x 8 (or I might change to Phillips Cyan) The plan is to install to 2 heatsinks in the following configuration:

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Flashing Galaxy Nexus to a yakju build

One of the advantages of buying a “Nexus” branded phones is that it’s vanilla Android and always the first to get updates – pretty much as soon as Google release it. You could pretty much look at it as a Google Phone. But alas, with the Galaxy Nexus, this seems to have changed. The “Google” version is the yakju build. It appears that the majority of Galaxy Nexus sold here in OZ have a yakjudv or similar build.

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