Dude where have u been man.. Was wonderin bout ya.. Tank is looking good bro.. And i see ur clown fishes from blake are still looking good..
Looks like u need some coral to fill out ur tank.. If u ever need some corals lmk.. I got ya..
I've been around, just not on the forums for a while haha. I want to get a few more frags since now my tank is pretty bare, thinking more zoas and maybe some SPS to test under the LED's.
Speaking of LED's!
I bought the 24 LED kit from Aquastyleonline.com, I bought the 24 with the intent of running it over the 12 at very low power since its mass overkill for that tank, and I am going to setup the 24gal cube and move everything to that tank along with the light which will be enough light for that size tank (24 led's, 3 watts a piece, 3 watts per gallon, 24 gallon, you get the idea)
No pics of all the parts because I was too excited to get going to take pictures.
Power adapters for the Drivers
I chose to cut off the connectors and then just solder it all together
Potentiometer soldered to the driver
Setup all drawn out, the yellow bulbs are the whites, and the clear are the blues, there is a mix of half 10,000k whites and half 6500k whites, If I was to do it again, I would definitely do all 10,000k whites because they're a true crisp white vs a slightly yellow white.
annddddd Soldered Up
I chose 60 degree optics, why? well I don't really know, I just picked the middle option (they offer 45, 60 and 80 degree)
plugged it in and it works!
set it on the floor and lit up the whole room!
Made a quick trip to lowes for some PVC pipe to make a temporary hanging fixture, probably going to make legs and have it stand on the tank instead of hanging
I also tested it out at knee height over the floor to play with the colors
blue down and white all the way up
about half white half blue
all blue
Overall, the kit cost me $139 shipped. Shipping was $37 from Hong Kong and I was originally very skeptical of how long it would take, I ordered it on the 28th, it shipped the 29th and was here the 30th... FROM HONG KONG! That made me a lot happier about how much I spent on shipping and overall, for $140 I am VERY pleased with this kit.
aquastyleonline.com
-John