nova423

My corals from the live sale are doing fantastic. And I am excited to hear I won a kit!!

Not really an expert on that stuff, there are some great articles on re and nano reef that might help you.

Have plenty of cheap fleabay LED chips from building grow lights for my ladies indoor garden shelf. So I decided to see if I could rig up a nice LED cannon with some spare parts I had around the house. Apologies for the crappy cell pics. Items 1 10W Royal Blue LED emitter 1 spare lamp cord 1 Ikea cutlery caddy 1 CPU cooler 1 LED driver Thermal adhesive 1 T5 reflector zip ties heat shrink tubing electrical tape extreme velcro (silver kind from HD) The beauty of this build is that the CPU cooler fits perfectly in the ikea caddy. Secured with zip ties, it mounts nicely. The ikea caddy has tons of holes and is made of aluminum. Since I am underdriving this 10W LED, and mounting it on a relatively massive heat sink, I am not running the fan. I mounted the driver on the back with some extreme velcro. Some excellent light comes out of this thing! Runs extremely cool too. I put a mylar reflector repurposed from an old T5 fixture around the cannon, I cut it to size and secured with velcro. The reflector really helped with some off the light leak with the holes in the ikea caddy. Letting it run right now to see how hot it gets. Next step is figuring out a mounting system. This is a prototype, I plan to build another and wire it and this one up to a 2 up board with two Meanwell LDD drivers hooked up to my StormX. More to come!

Yup he had a fat, happy life.

RIP Rocky, here he is a few months ago.

Nope, tested everything this morning with salifert, all in the green. Guess it was just his time. Salinity checked with refractometer. The only thing I can think of is I put in a tiny 1/2 inch pistol shrimp last night, but I seriously doubt that tiny guy killed my 3" cleaner shrimp.

I bought him almost full sized, he molted earlier this week and looked fine. I guess these guys don't live that long? Everything else in tank looks fine, checked params this morning and salinity was like .0005 low, maybe that was it? I heard they can be very sensitive to that.

Yes one of the minis would be perfect for a pico.

Fellow Duncan lover here, picked up my 3rd in the sale.

It looks amazing!

+1000000

Thanks so much ERC, this was my first live sale and wow it was awesome! Excellent selection of choice livestock at excellent prices. Hope every one else had a great time.

I'm really excited to see who gets it!

That latest one he put up is sick and that is a great price!

Since I started dosing zeo my rainbow acan has popped two new heads.

Excellent buys for stocking my new tank upgrade!

D1 sold

B68 sold

A63 sold

a52 sold

a47 sold

a44 sold

a41 sold

a39 sold

A22 sold