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I just bought some at the supermarket. Check the ingredients. If it's Cyanoacrylate based then you should be good.

4 degrees is not bad for the cost of a maxijet and computer fan. Is that hole on the bottom right the air intake?

I love that chiller!

Sweet. Tank looks great!! I guess you finally finished your LED build

I like the combo method. Glue on coral stick on putty. Glue on putty, mount to rock.

Since cats do eat fish. It seems a natural method of cycling and an integral part of the ecosystem. I think you should just add more live rock to accommodate the additional bio load.

Agreed. Looks like 40 to me.

Oops, double post.

So? Are you up and running yet

Looks good! Don't know how that could be UPS damage though...was the box smashed? I would think for that kind of dent there would be something obvious.

So...any updates

Nice!

Any updates? How's the build going?

The DIN rail concept looks nice...never heard of it before. I wasn't planning on using stars...RapidLED has individual solder-less ones that I wanted to use instead. the idea was to have each color in the OCW on a separate driver. 7 led per string. 11 drivers as you mentioned. I'm still trying to figure it allot and now that you raised the point, I see that each color has its own forward voltage and min/max voltage. This is the part I need to look more closely at. I was going to use Steve's 400 watt supply for all the drivers on one outlet, but I do like the idea of the DIN mounted drivers/power supply. There seem to be a whole slew of them available, which ones were you looking at specifically. I need to make sure they can dim with PWM As far as CAT 5 cabling, this was definitely something I considered, I wasn't sure though if it could handle the voltage though.

I'm in NY..another DIY thread brought me over to this forum and wanted to see what all you DCers hack up over here I know it sounds like overkill, but it does include colors. The breakdown looks like this 28 RB @1000mA 14 NW @1000mA 14 UV @700mA 7 OCW (21 LEDs right there..) @700mA For the OCW combo i would use the red/blue/cyan ones to match the wavelengths. So 28/14 blue/white with everything else as supplemental. Does not seem as overkill now I also wanted a lot of light so it can be used on future upgrades and to make sure my SPS is happy. Also, my canopy is not deep so I can't go high up and I want to have enough coverage, thus more LEDs. RapidLED includes the jumper cable with each diode so really not much more cost. The idea of solder-less along with the makers heatsink really appeals to me if i need to move things/change things around later on. I'm planning 6 drivers (one quad, two doubles and three singles) to drive each color separately. They will be connected to a reefangel PWM module for automation. I like also that the steve's drivers include connection for a dimmer pot so i can have some manual control as well. This isn't anything I'm ready to jump into any time soon...my tank is only 6 months old (with 6 months into the hobby ), so planning this build slowly. Also need the finances to come together for it. I've priced the LEDs/drivers/power supplies and some misc parts at somewhere between $5-600, I dont remember if that included any heatsink or not, maybe a normal one? Not a bad price considering it will be more powerful than 2xRadion Pros and more than half the price My biggest questions at this point are where I'm going to put the components...and how I will mount everything. I didn't mean to hijack the thread so, I'll hand it back to OP to discuss his plans.

I've been researching a similar build for my 65g for a while. Thinking about either 66 or 77 LEDs. But I think I'll go with the solder-less from rapidled since they really aren't much more expensive than the 3ups or straight LEDs. I'm also looking at Steve's for drivers and power supplies. I'm on the fence though with the makers heat sink or something much cheaper...especially since I found thermal tape What's your plans for mounting drivers and PS? As part of the fixture? Remote enclosure? How about wiring...trying to figure out a convenient/modular harness I could use. Look forward to seeing how the build progresses.