biocube

[louscal]

just got back into the hobby after 8 years. feels god to see fish swimming around again even though its on a smaller scale, but boy have things changed. 3 weeks in 38lbs live rock 3 peppermint shrimp, 10 hermits 10 snails, 3 chromes and 1 conch who is doing a hell of a job on small diatom bloom. 355795

[louscal]

What do you guys think of the aquascape move it around a f w times stared at for a bit and I'm pretty happy with it

[Killamanillaman]

Looks good, Like the shelf and it gives a good sense of depth. Stock BC29?

[louscal]

Have some mods done the the 2nd chamber have a eshopps nano skimmer and custom LEDs I made from rapid led that are starting to looks awesome just added a few more lights to it and it's at 24 leds now

[DustanT]

24 leds is plenty, you'll never use more than 40%. what is your ratio? I have 10 RB, 1 red, 1 green, 1 lime, 1 blue, 4 UV and 6 whites.

[louscal]

9 cw 1red 1 green 9 rb 4uv. Still getting a little disco ball look from the green and red. Trying to figure it out

[DustanT]

Not much you can do with the green and reds but turn them down so you can't see it, mine is like at 5%

[louscal]

Ok that's what I might do add another driver and set it real low right now it's on the same channel as my whites thought it would be ok cause they are at around 32%. What controller are you using right now I'm using manual but think I might order the storm X controller

[j_mazzy]

great scape

[DustanT]

so I have 4 channels and you don't need the storm x the cheaper storm is all you need.

1. whites with 6 LEDs with a 1000mah driver at 20
2. RB with 10 RB with 1000mah driver at 100
3. Colors with 4, green lime, blue, red 700mah driver at 8
4. UV with 700mah driver at 12

It took 2 months of acclimation to get them this high. This is pretty much the top as anything over make then stay closed or not open fully.

http://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac12/Dustan_Tompkins/20160810_163630.jpg (http://s881.photobucket.com/user/Dustan_Tompkins/media/20160810_163630.jpg.html)
http://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac12/Dustan_Tompkins/20160810_163538.jpg (http://s881.photobucket.com/user/Dustan_Tompkins/media/20160810_163538.jpg.html)

Used the stock biocube fans to cool the power supply and LED drivers

[louscal]

Yea order the storm tester with converter cause I have 2 nano drivers so mike suggested I use that so I have full control and I put the red green and blue on a separate driver so I am running 3 channels. Thanks for your input dustin

[louscal]

storm controller came and my light look a thousand times better plus i put my colors on a separate driver so know i am running 3 separate strings. ill post some pics as soon as my new custom canopy is ready