Todd's Custom 135, Sump, top off, Stand and Canopy

[Todd]

Originally Posted by untamed

Nice. Good creativity to solve the problems associated with a four sided display! You've got to figure out what to do with that power cord that feeds the entire thing....

yeah, that's a temporary thing - I agree its ugly and dosen't fit with the rest of the tank. I bought one of those wiremold cord holders that lays flat on the ground and prevents tripping on the cord, and was going to run it along the wall across the kitchen doorway and then across to underneath the tank. But I didn't buy enough, so that will happen next week. I am also planning on making another extension cord on another outlet (which is also on a different breaker) with a UPS backup for my powerheads and auto feeder on it. So a temperature decrease would be the major issues for a short term power outage. But my 2008 fish budget was spent in 2007 so that may have to wait until I am no longer a student.

When I am no longer renting, I will try to get a few GFCI outlets coming up from the floor right into the stand, on a dedicated breaker.

[wetcoast]

Nicely done - nice touches added into it. I've got the same dimensions that I am just finishing my leak tests on and waiting for the RO machine to pump out more so I can start getting going - your thread hasn't helped with my anxiousness

[banditpowdercoat]

That tank is awesome, I am jealous. Like the 4th bulkhead fro the wiring. Nice touch.

[Todd]

Finally got my LED light sticks for the profilux yesterday. I have only been waiting about 4 months...

They are really neat, operate as a few different things.

1. Moonlights. Do both deep blue, blue /white and white colors for different times of the lunar phase. The profilux does a full lunar cycle built into the software, also the moonlights can simulate cloud cover.

2. Red / Yellow lights. Operates on a different channel from the other lights, and adds color to sunset / sunrise. Gives a really cool effect to sunset, as the dimmable T5's dim, the reds come upto 100% and then the reds quickly fade to 0% after the t5's reach 0% then the moonlights come up.

3. Lightening - A the touch of a button, on a programed time, or randomly, a storm can pass over the tank. The t5's dim to a preset amount (I chose 80%), lightening comes up and the intensity increases, flashes get closer toghter as the storm reaches its apex, then the storm rolls off, lightening gets less frequent and less intense as the t5's come back upto 100%. Also one of the sticks works as flash 1, the other as flash 2, so they can fire independantly or together to change intensity.

One thing that I am a little dissapointed about is the fact that the sticks can't work downsteam of each other. I thought (for some reason) that I could plug one into the other, but they both need to be pluged into the profilux. Thus I need to get another splitter cable for the main computer so that I can plug my tunze back in.

Overall, really neat, well built little units.

[Delphinus]

Wow the sunset/sunrise feature sounds really cool! Wish I could see that in action...