UXDesigners 50 Starphire Cube

[uxdesigner]

Now that we are settled (after a couple of crazy months) and relocating to the Bay Area, it was time to get another tank setup. I'm back in with a 50 Rimless Starphire Cube and custom DIY LED inspired by the new Radion XR30w Pro. I'm really loving this tank, I really liked my RSM 250 but wanted to try something with a sump. I was concerned about the noise (stock pump is really loud), I replaced it and suggest the Eheim Compact+ 3000, dead silent! The durso was also an issue but after asking a few 50 cube owners (thanks Duncan) I was able to build a custom durso that with a bit of tweaking is now silent also. For the lights, I decided to run 8 LEDs per dimmable channel to have complete control of the Blue , White & Color Matrix. I'm getting some crazy color combinations but for now I'm running each at 50% with 2 hour ramp up per channel.

Specs:
50 Starphire Cube
Eheim Compact+ 3000
TLF 150 Reactor running NPX Bio-Plastics
Stock skimmer (works surprisingly well)
BRS Filter Socks (this is key to keeping the sump output silent)
Rapid LED 24 LED DIY kit (inspired by Radion XR30w Pro) in a custom industrial style pendant

• Channel 1 (Blue / 8am - 8pm) - 8 Royal Blue Cree XT-E
• Channel 2 (Color Matrix / 10am - 6pm) - 2 Blue Cree XP-E, 2 Red-Orange Cree XP-E, 2 Cree UV, 2 Green Cree XP-E
• Channel 3 (White / 12pm - 4 pm) - 1 Warm White Cree XP-G, 4 Cool White Cree XM-L, 3 Royal Blue Cree XT-E

This thing is dead silent!

 

[gimmito]

Sweet set up !

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Very cool rig!

 

[Kmooresf]

Awesome!

 

[denzil]

Very clean setup! It seems like that heatsink is plenty to dissipate the heat and not worry about too much heat getting trapped in the lamp trim.