disaster999 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Thanks, im planning on switching over to LEDs since the cost of DIY with cree bulbs is a tad more than changing out bulbs. i was thinking with 48cree bulbs driving them at 100% and supplementing with t5ho actinic bulbs im sure it would be plenty enough for my tank. Link to comment
sammy113 Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 48 sounds the borderline for a tank like yours. If your plan is to drive them at high mA you can certainly go away with fewer LEDs. You gotta think of a good way to arrange them to cover your entire tank. What are the tank dimensions? Link to comment
SaltyFlip Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Sweet lookin' tank! Link to comment
divecj5 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Fantastic build. Really like the clean look of the stand (especially the sliding doors) and the LED fixture looks professionally designed and built.Not that I was expecting anything less than superb after those initial mockups. I may have missed it but what are you plans for stocking (coral/livestock)? It sounded like you were moving some contents over from another tank? -Adam Link to comment
pismo_reefer Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Oh, this tank is so awesome! Link to comment
sammy113 Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 Thanks Adam, I will be transferring all my corals from my current tank (20 cube in sig). Plans are to keep at least 70% SPS (most of them ORA cause I have a friend who has a nice collection and is growing and fragging a lot of them) some LPS like acans which I already have 4 colonies and some branching like frogspawn, torch and such, Zoas which I already have a lot but want to keep collecting more. That's basically it. As far as fish goes, I have a Percula and want to get another anytime soon. Have a pigmy angel that have been with me for a year now, a female yellow watchman goby that I'm going to give it to a friend cause I don't have sand now, a clown goby and two shrimps (cleaner and fire) was thinking some kind of wrasse but need to research if there is one that does not require a sandbed. Maybe I'll get a midas or bicolor blenny, tailspot blenny or a small school of cardinals. Link to comment
TheNordCelt Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Awesome build sammy, love the fixture! Link to comment
disaster999 Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 48 sounds the borderline for a tank like yours. If your plan is to drive them at high mA you can certainly go away with fewer LEDs. You gotta think of a good way to arrange them to cover your entire tank. What are the tank dimensions? right now the tank is 40"(L)x20"(W)x30"(H) but im planning on "downgrading" my tank to 24"(H) or lower sometime in the future. 30" is just too damn tall. im planning on arranging it like the AI SOL lights so i will have 2 "modules" with 24LED each. reason being is looking at the data sheets it seems to have nice coverage on a 2'x2' square. supplementing with T5HO will add extra light and spectrum to the tank. Link to comment
sammy113 Posted September 7, 2011 Author Share Posted September 7, 2011 right now the tank is 40"(L)x20"(W)x30"(H) but im planning on "downgrading" my tank to 24"(H) or lower sometime in the future. 30" is just too damn tall.im planning on arranging it like the AI SOL lights so i will have 2 "modules" with 24LED each. reason being is looking at the data sheets it seems to have nice coverage on a 2'x2' square. supplementing with T5HO will add extra light and spectrum to the tank. oh I see. True about AI's if you would lit the tank with AI's would use two of them so I don't see a reason to use more than 48. Sounds like a good plan to me. T5 supplementing is a good idea as well. You could add something like purple fiji or true actinic In other notes... I transferred 75% of my corals from my cube. I had my fish for a few days now. Feeding everyday to add some waste and increase bacteria. Been dosing a capful of MB7 every other day. Parameter seems to be right on the spot and last night I tried acans and frogspawn. They looked so happy right when I placed them in and today they were doing great. So started dipping corals and transferring and to my surprise almost all of them opened right away! Though it would take some more time due to the dip (did 50/50 peroxide/sea water for nuisance algae and then revive) Took some macro shots and FTS. Processing and cropping now so stay tuned in the next few minutes Link to comment
sammy113 Posted September 7, 2011 Author Share Posted September 7, 2011 Pics as promised Acan "island" Right side Left side Some macro eye candy FTS More corals will be transferred in one or two days. Still treating them for algae removal. Then need to do some stops at friend's house to pic up some frags they got for me Link to comment
disaster999 Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 looking good! add more sps Link to comment
sammy113 Posted September 7, 2011 Author Share Posted September 7, 2011 of course there's more coming I still have some in the 20g cube. Plus I'm going this weekend to pic some more Link to comment
Fishfingers00 Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Looks great, cant wait to see how this turns out. Link to comment
divecj5 Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Yum!! Thanks for sharing so many pictures. You have quite the nice collection going. I imagine you're using a DSLR. If so, are you shooting in RAW and post-processing to color correct? The only reason I ask is that I continue to struggle finding just the right setting to capture the colors under LEDs. The spectrum throws the sensor for a loop and I often find it difficult to capture some of the coloration without blowing out the highlights or having it turn out dark. I've added fill flash in the past but then it just looks too "natural" white. I found processing photos under T5s and MH to match true life FAR easier than under LEDs. -Adam Link to comment
sammy113 Posted September 7, 2011 Author Share Posted September 7, 2011 Yum!! Thanks for sharing so many pictures. You have quite the nice collection going. I imagine you're using a DSLR. If so, are you shooting in RAW and post-processing to color correct? The only reason I ask is that I continue to struggle finding just the right setting to capture the colors under LEDs. The spectrum throws the sensor for a loop and I often find it difficult to capture some of the coloration without blowing out the highlights or having it turn out dark. I've added fill flash in the past but then it just looks too "natural" white. I found processing photos under T5s and MH to match true life FAR easier than under LEDs. -Adam Thanks, welcome to my world of LED photo nightmare I'm not shooting in RAW just high quality jpeg. Then I take the photos to photoshop and I have an automated action saved to the actions folder with some basic settings that I use on all photos. First I crop the area I want to use then just click the Action button I programed which does the following: Auto Color Auto Contrast Auto Levels Resize to 1000x~800 Save to current file location Close That take aprox 1 min per photo to edit. Once I hit the action button it does all that stuff in a few seconds. Deciding were to crop takes more time Link to comment
sammy113 Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 You can't clearly see what's in there, but there are a crapton of zoa and SPS frags Link to comment
Rabidgerbil38 Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Im diggin the acan island, everything is lookin awesome as usual. Link to comment
divecj5 Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Thanks, welcome to my world of LED photo nightmare Auto Color Auto Contrast Auto Levels Resize to 1000x~800 Save to current file location Close Thanks. Glad I'm not the only one pulling my hair out trying to capture things look in person...and I used to think shooting under T5s was bad Similar to you, I think I've finally developed a preset in RAW that comes close to the right color correction. I may take your approach and see how things look with just Auto Color, Contrast, and Levels. Actions are where it's at!! Can't wait to see all of those frags. -Adam Link to comment
sammy113 Posted October 4, 2011 Author Share Posted October 4, 2011 yeah man, I hate photobucket. Bandwidth will reset tomorrow i hope Link to comment
Jruberti Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 I went from photobucket to tinypic to picassa to imgur. Imgur seems to do the trick I can't wait to see the tank's progress once your pics are up. Link to comment
Rabidgerbil38 Posted October 4, 2011 Share Posted October 4, 2011 Imgboot works great for me and has unlimited bandwidth as well Link to comment
sammy113 Posted October 4, 2011 Author Share Posted October 4, 2011 thanks gonna switch to something, definitely. Already downloaded picasa to try it. Will check that one as well. We have bandwith back Link to comment
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