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Here is the wrap up of the project. The add on is anodized black, so it fits the Sunpod really well. I was going to only put on 4 Cree XR-E royal blue to start with (accordingly to Meanwell doc, it supports constant 700ma current with voltage 3v to 30v, so 4 bulbs SHOULD be no problem). Every...

Hey Art, I am still in Cupertino. Glad to hear that you finally found your motivation coming down this way. Either you or Drew are welcome to pick it up once I am done with it. I haven't used a flashlight on my tank after lights go off for a while now, yesterday I spent 10 minutes in front of...

Btw, don't be tricked by the picture thinking this is a big unit with many bulbs. Well many bulbs is true, but is is really not far from my "little one": 15.75” x 8.38” x 2.80”. So if you are thinking about this covering your big tank, better have a thick wallet and be used to look at a busy set...

Thanks Phong, you are making me feel very good now... :D. Keep in mind besides the price of LEDs, even a larger part of the cost goes to materials for heat dissipation for a solidly built (or overbuilt) system. Most of these cheap ones either do not have good heat dissipation, or mostly rely on...

I just picked up the sea hare from Garvin (glee), and am not sure how long it will take to clear up the algaes. But I definitely do not want to see it starves to death in my tank, so I like to line up the next person as soon as possible even though there might be a little waiting time. Must...

Ian, but the brand in chinese says "Three flavors of China" :). Arnold, you should be able to buy it in any chinese grocery store. You have to cook it for quite a while though (not just hot water). I have to agree with Ian, it is the best tasting packed noodles that I had so far.

If I am not mistaken (I could be though), regular float switch is using magnet for switching, so it might not be a good idea to attach float switch to another magnet like magfloat.

I don't know if anybody have the patient of one or two years (at least I do not have :D), but I was hoping to see some good successful stories with acros at least in more than half a year time span. The LEDs have been around way longer than that. I have not searched very hard, but I did tried a...

Art, have you read any long term successful story with LED on SPS (especially acros)? Looks like you want to keep SPS, and I am just wondering how they will like the spectrum of LEDs.

Hmm, I must be way under your guys' standard in the last 3 years for my little 12G nano cube that I just managed to crack during the weekend. I was running it only with a MJ900 return pump, which I thought was a significant upgrade in water flow from the original pump already. I was able to keep...

I left the orginal lights unchanged, and retro fitted 6 CREE XR-E royal blues that mount nicely on the two sides of the MH using the leg mounting slots. I did not want to swap out of MH since I have acros in this tank, and I have not read much long term successful story with LEDs on acros yet...

Richard, from my face, you probably can tell how much fun I was getting out of it, priceless :). Ian, I don't have a PAR meter so I can't tell for sure besides the visual description quoted in Tony's reply. If you have a PAR meter that I can borrow, I will be glad to measure it. Tony...

Thanks everyone! Especially Steve who looks out the million $$$$ for me :bigsmile: . I always wanted the million $$$$, but unless I can charge a huge price tag on this, I would go broke trying to make this ;) . Euod, I actually have some Cree optics and used a few of them for my fuge...

Wil, check out here: http://www.bareefers.org/home/node/8351 I just took the fixture to the first anodizer I found on the web, Applied Anodizing. They charged me $75 for hard anodizing (Level III), and I like the look after anodizing.

Part of the reason for me to be in this hobby is that there are so many interesting toys that I can play with, and part of the fun with these toys are to make them myself. I have made a few things now. Even though they work fine, it is hard to make them NOT to look like DIY. Recently, I started...

Erick, if you are brave enough, you can put a knife blade on it, and you will mostly like have instant many. I am not kidding.

Erick, the mini carpet looks very healthy in your tank. It surely is a runner, but once it find a place that it likes, it will stay there for a long time. Btw, did I tell you its parent (or grand parent) attacked me when I accidentally touched it with my inside wrist (skin on hands are too thick...

Art, the Alpha 200 is very good. It comes with two tubes for the pump inlet, and I have to use the small one (less air and water flow I think) to keep it from overflow. With the small tube, I can easily pull half a skimmer cup of dark skimmate in two days of time. For my old Euroreef skimmer...

120+70+12+12 = 214 Total: 2123G

Very nice! I have a tiny frag that I won from BAR raffle more than half a year ago. It is still the same size, I have to say it is the slowest growing coral I ever have that is still alive. Good things come to the people who can wait :D.