Beware the Shallows

[jedimasterben]

I can definitely get lionfish if I wanted to, all I'd have to do is go to the Atlantic and cast a line out.

 

 

But no. lol

[NirvanaandTool]

Well those are Volies. And they get a little too big for a 80-90g.

 

Dwarf fuzzy or a Radiata would work nicely. I'm planning both for my 90g but I'm also not planning on having shrimp or small fish besides the occasional snack

[Arkayology]

You get your materials for the lights yet?

[jedimasterben]

You get your materials for the lights yet?

[jedimasterben]

So today I was sitting down, now having basically all of the proper materials to get the light finished, I began assembling everything to start epoxying to the heatsinks - but unfortunately, I cannot continue right now. The stars that the royal blue M from LEDgroupbuy have some metal burs on the outer edges of the bottom of them that hold them up off the heatsink. It is from where the stars are stamped out and connected to each other (just bend/snap to break them apart). I'm going to have to get them off before I can continue. Grrrr...

[jedimasterben]

Put together another flower box today.

 

A pallet of 60ft3 of topsoil, 49 of which went into this flower box alone, along with two bags of peat and a shitload of Miracle Gro Shake n Feed.

 

 

Pulling up the grass and starting to get them aligned.

 

 

Ran out of weedblock halfway through, thought I had enough

 

 

First layer of dirt is down, then peat and shake n feed, then came soaking the peat. Probably put 50 gallons of water or so on it.

 

 

Another layer of dirt, peat, shake n feed, then a cap of dirt and shake n feed, and there she is!

 

 

 

 

Put some stones in it. I figure I can put at least five daisies between each line of stones, hopefully that lasts for a while lol

 

 

 

 

We also went to a different nursery out of town and picked up some new flowers for our boxes. We saw they had similar boxes, and made note of what they had growing in them

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one looks sad compared to the others, we didn't buy enough stuff, especially sweet potato vine.

 

 

And I planted like 12 packs of sunflowers, six or eight different species, much to my wife's dismay. We had nothing in that space, and nothing else was growing there, so I figured I'd try, and boom goes the dynamite. Can't wait to see the 'skyscraper' variety bloom - 12-14' stalks with 14-16" blooms

 

 

 

After all of that, I am absolutely exhausted!

[metrokat]

[HM3105]

Those raised beds look great. When can we get the lighting specs? I presume you're using LEDs to supplement the sun?

[Psychosis]

The sun isn't man enough for Ben, which is why he's designed an array of optics powerful enough to burn holes in it with evil clusters to toughen it up. One day it will be up to par, enough to handle his thug daisies.

[jedimasterben]

My LEDs will blot out the sun!

 

[Psychosis]

Then we will photosynthesize in the shade! Ahoo!

[jedimasterben]

 

[Psychosis]

Teach us wise one!

[CrazyEyes]

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[Giga]

Meh..........................

[jedimasterben]

All glued! Though I managed to forget the violet LEDs for the little one.

 

 

Also realized I can't draw straight lines worth shit lol

[CrazyEyes]

Any time frame to when we should see this beast lit up?

[jedimasterben]

Not really. This was probably the easiest part of this process.

[CrazyEyes]

I think the securing, the soldering and wiring is the easiest part. The part I hate is making everything look neat and tidy.

[jedimasterben]

That's going to take many, many hours more than likely, especially since I've got wire sheath, multiwire cables to keep track of, and the T5 tubes to try and keep looking neat. I also wanted quick disconnects using Molex connectors, but to get the in white will take a lot of time in shipping and wouldn't be too cheap.

[CrazyEyes]

I really want to incorporate molex connectors in mine.

[CrazyEyes]

Are you storing all your stuff, drivers, driver board, p/s etc in some sort of project box?

[jedimasterben]

I still might, but then I don't think I could use this really expensive 7-conductor 18AWG solid 600v cable to run from the T5 ballasts to the tubes lol, I think most of the connectors can only do stranded wire 18AWG.

[Chew_Magna]

We have the same speakers.

 

Ditch that Razer mouse, the brand is total trash. Nothing like they used to be back in the original Boomslang days.

[Psychosis]

Wait wait wait. .. was that diet vanilla coca cola? Owuh..mih...gawd.