ok so heres a few pictures.
My LEDs came in but they are the wrong colors. oh well we'll see if we can fix the this or not but I may just add a blue strip in instead.

anyway, 2 - 12k panorama pros is all it takes to light this puppy, no big light bills for me! Jelly? ;)

I wanted to ditch the canopy I had built but needed something to mount the lights in so I whipped this up at work in literally 40 minutes so excuse any design flaws :P

K so heres some pics

mocked up with wood strips to mount to vs. having to weld a bracket in with tapped holes.
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...psf6e31ab8.jpg
Painted lights are in
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...pscd6b2ac5.jpg

a few different angels now
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3117b0cd.jpg
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...psfdce32cf.jpg
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5c06f9e5.jpg
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...ps958fc9a6.jpg

oops forgot to add. my view from the couch
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...pscee81ee6.jpg

I like the lighting enclosure, it looks very clean from the outside!

Like your entire setup...especially those skinny legs of the canopy. .very sleek. Looking :cry:

Thank you eventually I will be refinishing the stand and the "skin" I made is just temporary and I will be doing it to match the light.
Glad ya like it.
Thanks Eli they're actually just screws lol but they are nice ones :P

Sooo.. turns out driftwood is bad for cichlids. Did not kmow that. Apparently lowers the ph in turn affecting their health. Ok. So I picked up some granite from the landscaping place in town as granite is the rock most common in lake malawi. Blah blah...

Here we go. This is better then before and now I'm off to the races again. Picked up a few nice fish as well and have a few more lined up for tomorrow. Anyone going the the A.C.E. auction?

Here is the tank sorry not the greatest pics
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5586a386.jpghttp://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...psf201672a.jpg
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...ps87361843.jpghttp://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/...ps19209184.jpg

That light looks real good..Tank looks great with the rock(needs more) :)
How are the fish getting along? That's a rough crowd...

Lookin good Kenny
I really like that light surround and how it looks on the tank from a standing perspective
I hated how my light glared in my face when sitting so I eventually build a pseudo canopy

You could add back the driftwood without any issues
I had piles of it in my 125g and no issues keeping it above 7.0
All you have to do is keep an eye on your pH and use alkaline buffer
Or better use SeaChem Cichlid Lake Salt
Even better still use SeaChem Malawi/Victoria Buffer
And if that doesn't take care of the driftwood issue, you could use SeaChem Tanganyika Buffer here and there. But watch it as this stuff is powerful and will raise you pH quite high (over 9.0 if you're not careful)

I recommend using the Malawi stuff, along with the Lake Salt, as it's blended for your fishies and will really help with attitude and color

Been a while. But a quick post. Couple new wild caught show males some new rock work, and thats about it. Going to be finishing the basement soon and then I'll be building a new larger cichlid tank. I have a few wild juviniles and a bunch of nice males growing out, so when I get to it I will have a good stock list. Anyway, a few that I have got wild caught recently. Anyone who has kept cichlids in the past can appreciate this list.

Aulonocara jacobfreibergi "otter point, lemon jake, eureka red"
Aulonocara maylandi & kandeensis
Lwanda sp.
Protomelas "mara rocks"
Aulonocara masoni
Those are just my wild caughts, then I have a bunch of F0-F1 choice males. Can't wait for them to all grow out. Here's a tank vid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8v3...e_gdata_player

The fish in this vid are the only larger ones so far the rest are juvie males in the 55 in the basement growing out.

New tank plans are for a 150. Stoked.

Thats all happy holidays folks