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We have had no moonlight on this tank for a long time now and with no way to see the tank at night my bro and i decided to diy one. we put together two light fixtures to go on either side of the tank. they are hidden inside the tv chambers, we used one white, one blue, and 5 uv leds per side. they run at around .25w total (all 14 leds). we decided to try out uv leds in the fixture for fun and after seeing what kind of pop they had we needed to balance everything out, so there are 2 knobs to control 2 channels, one channel is the white and blue, the other is the uv channel. this way we can see things pop whenever we want by cranking up one channel while being able to do night viewing by turning up the white blue channel. at night we have the moonlight very very dim.

with many new led fixtures on the market featuring uv we wanted to see for ourselves what they looked like. i'd have to say that uv is INSANE. things that didn't pop under actinic now do, and things that popped like crazy under actinic pretty much look lame in comparison to the kind of pop under uv:eek: one problem is that its really hard to photograph, so you'll have to take my word for it :biggrin:

moonlight fixture
http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/a...n/IMAG0471.jpg

2 channel moonlight controller
http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/a...n/IMAG0472.jpg

cotton candy chalice under direct uv
http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/a...n/IMAG0464.jpg

ac70 - frag filter

when you have a sumpless nano, space is limited, really limited. we've been fragging corals here and there and i hate frag racks. so with some space inside my ac70 filter we fit a piece of egg crate and diy-ed an led fixture. the 'frag filter' can hold about 4-5 small frags, which is perfect for the size of the tank. the led fixture has 1 blue and 1 white led running at 2w total. we'll probably be selling frags soon once we see good results! :mrgreen:
http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/a...n/IMAG0474.jpg http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/a...n/IMAG0469.jpg
http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/a...n/IMAG0470.jpg

new fish, new pics

Very cool pics!!! Let's see the tube

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Originally Posted by subman (Post 726684)

Very cool pics!!! Let's see the tube

its a 6 inch pvc tube with a magnifying glass glued to the end

http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/a...icken/tube.jpg

Very creative and I love the pics very cool effect!

Great idea! I was looking for something like this!

I'm heading to the dollar store tomorrow..

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Originally Posted by beefORchicken (Post 726694)

its a 6 inch pvc tube with a magnifying glass glued to the end

http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/a...icken/tube.jpg

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Originally Posted by beefORchicken (Post 726694)

its a 6 inch pvc tube with a magnifying glass glued to the end

Very cool idea, I love the pic's it takes. Kinda like looking into a crystal ball.