Builder Anthony Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Ya i noticed that table area you had over there with all kinds of parts laying around.Figured you were going to be moking some soon.How much were the parts for that. Quote Link to comment
disaster999 Posted April 10, 2012 Author Share Posted April 10, 2012 (edited) heat sink was @ 35rmb thermal glue @ 5rmb 8 XP-G 6500K white @ 15.50rmb each 10 XP-E Royal Blue @ 18.00rmb each 6 XP-E Blue @ 13.00rmb each 1 XP-E Red @ 12.80rmb 2 Meanwell ELN-48-60D driver @ 150.00rmb each 24 60 Degrees Optics @ 2.00rmb each Grand total so far, 782.80rmb which is around 125 U.S. dollars add around 50 bucks for hardware and acrylic skin and you get a AI SOL knock off for less than 1/2 the price. Edited April 10, 2012 by disaster999 Quote Link to comment
i<3nanotanks Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Nice! It's like a sol! You should make me one Quote Link to comment
disaster999 Posted April 10, 2012 Author Share Posted April 10, 2012 ill see how this one turns out. Quote Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 i would like to be the 2nd person inline for your a SOL knock out Leds for my frag tank. Quote Link to comment
disaster999 Posted April 10, 2012 Author Share Posted April 10, 2012 if shipping doesnt cost an arm and a leg i might help you guys make them haha Quote Link to comment
matt frizz Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 You sir, are winning at this hobby. Quote Link to comment
disaster999 Posted April 12, 2012 Author Share Posted April 12, 2012 haha thanks for the kind words. i wouldnt say im winning, fighting a loosing battle with my fish right now...im thinking i need to catch the 2 remaining fish in my tank and treat them for ich and let my tank run fishless for a month or 2 just to starve all the remaining parasites. on other news, went shopping today for the LED build. project box, 8 core wire, fans (went overboard with the noctua fan ) power supply, dimming knobs priced out the entire build...it cost me around $200usd for all the parts needed to finish this light. working on an acrylic skin that will wrap the light to hide most of the wires. i hope what i have envisioned wouldnt look too bad. Quote Link to comment
i<3nanotanks Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 hey how much would shipping to 38138 cost for one of those? Quote Link to comment
disaster999 Posted April 15, 2012 Author Share Posted April 15, 2012 (edited) hey how much would shipping to 38138 cost for one of those? i would have to see how much it would cost to ship this...also im not sure if i want start building these for a small fee. ill get back to you on that heres some more 99% finished product shots, excuse the stuffed animal driver box wire exits through a hole in the heatsink and out the top for a clean look when hung see those black dots on the wood? the light was hot enough to burn the lacquer. it was on the desk for like 5 mins tops also, picked these up when i went to a shoreline in the north western part of hong kong. i wonder how these would do in my tank. Edited April 15, 2012 by disaster999 Quote Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 sweet build, haha i will excuse your toy animal. lol made me chuggle. Quote Link to comment
i<3nanotanks Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 Ha okay! just PM me thanks! Quote Link to comment
disaster999 Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 stupid ich, so it wiped out all but 2 fish in my tank. my purple tang was covered in ich a week or 2 ago and i thought he was a goner. now hes pretty much ich free and seem to be doing good. i cant add any fish to my tank since i know i still have ich, and its pretty much impossible to catch the 2 remaining fish in my tank to leave it fishless for a month to kill off the ich Quote Link to comment
Paleoreef103 Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 stupid ich, so it wiped out all but 2 fish in my tank. my purple tang was covered in ich a week or 2 ago and i thought he was a goner. now hes pretty much ich free and seem to be doing good. i cant add any fish to my tank since i know i still have ich, and its pretty much impossible to catch the 2 remaining fish in my tank to leave it fishless for a month to kill off the ich Yeah, I know that feeling. I'm just going to keep my tank at the three surviving fish for 2-3 months and hope it doesn't come back before adding any more... Quote Link to comment
disaster999 Posted May 14, 2012 Author Share Posted May 14, 2012 havent update this in a while, nothing too exciting going on with my tank. i cant seem win against red slime algae and brown algae in my tank. just did a major cleanup in the sump, scraping a cup worth of algae in the frag chamber. i did pick up a few new corals. took some pics of my other corals while i was at it Quote Link to comment
disaster999 Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 havent updated this in almost 2 months, thought i should give an update i was battling cyano for a while after the ich outbreak and my fish dying. i could of used chemiclean and be done with, but i thought ill give the more natural way a try first. first i tried turning off my lights for 3 days and kept my tank in total darkness. this helped kill some of the unwanted algae but the cyano was still present. 2 SPS RTN from the lights out and i was able to frag one. then i tried dr.tims waste away as it was advertised to clean up my tank of sluge, but after adding the 16oz bottle into my tank i saw no significant improvement in my cyano algae. my skimmate did turn a lot darker and smelled a lot more than before, but other than that not a whole lot of improvements. i decided i had enough and just use the chemical route instead, so went and got myself some chemiclean. within 2 days all the cyano was pretty much dead. just some dead tissue still lingering on rocks and such. i did a 20% water change, changed out my carbon and turned on my skimmer, this is what happened i waited 2 more days, did another 20% water change and this is what happened so i waited another 2 days, changed yet another 20% and my skimmer finally simmer down. all the cyano is gone, my tank is looking a whole lot cleaner. my corals and and fish probably loves the water since i did an equivalent of 50% water change this week. Quote Link to comment
d'Espresso Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Maybe i should try this method. i am dealing with ick also so each week i take out all the fish out and put in QT then i wait 2 weeks to put them back in after 10% w/c every 3-4 days because i wanted to do it the natural way also. So far so good. Glad everything is doing much better for you.. can't wait to see pictures soon! Quote Link to comment
disaster999 Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 so you take out your fish every month?? arent you stressing out your fish a bit too much like that? i would just take out all your fish, do some sort of treatment whether copper or hyposalinity to kill off the ick, and leave the tank fishless for at least a month to let the remaining ick die off. with ever new fish i would put it in QT to ensure theres no ick before adding it to the tank. Quote Link to comment
jndragon Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 Excellent build. I've been following for awhile now and I hope the algae has cleared up as well as the ick. I do have a couple of questions on your led build. How did you wire the fan on your heat sink? Is it linked to a chain of LEDs? Did you ever make the skin for the lights? I'm in the final stages of my own build and now I'm working on the aesthetics of it. Quote Link to comment
disaster999 Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 ive gotten lazy and havent done anything to make my light pretty. but im thinking of having one sheet of acrylic with bent sides and be done with it. since i have a power supply to drive the dimming controls for the meanwells, i just ran the wires from the power supply to the fans so when the whole system turns on, the fan will turn on as well. Quote Link to comment
xilez Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Does chemiclean have any affect on ich? Quote Link to comment
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