So this is my first post. As the name implies, I have an issue (my wife would say addiction) leaving things stock. The things I do aren't always the BEST option in the end, but it is the journey I enjoy more.
So...this is the project I am starting. I have been reefing for 4 months. I have a 46 gallon bow tank set up right now. My first tank was a 29 Biocube which I bought as a hospital tank. So now i want to turn that into a frag tank. However, the stock 36w x 2 PCs aren't enough light, I believe, to actively grow hard corals.
So, my first thought was to add more PCs. I found a gentleman who gutted his lid, because his tank cracked. So I bought the guts. I was going to wire those 2 extra lights in my lid and have 36w x 4 lights.
.....BUT then I realized that I don't have a wide enough spectrum of light. So in addition to the PCs, I wanted to build a strip of 14 LEDs that would run in the middle of the PCs, and make it a full spectrum LED strip, heavier on the other colors that I don't have (i.e. the LED strip would not make good light on it's own, it would be really weird colors).
So...I begin....
So...this is the project I am starting. I have been reefing for 4 months. I have a 46 gallon bow tank set up right now. My first tank was a 29 Biocube which I bought as a hospital tank. So now i want to turn that into a frag tank. However, the stock 36w x 2 PCs aren't enough light, I believe, to actively grow hard corals.
So, my first thought was to add more PCs. I found a gentleman who gutted his lid, because his tank cracked. So I bought the guts. I was going to wire those 2 extra lights in my lid and have 36w x 4 lights.
.....BUT then I realized that I don't have a wide enough spectrum of light. So in addition to the PCs, I wanted to build a strip of 14 LEDs that would run in the middle of the PCs, and make it a full spectrum LED strip, heavier on the other colors that I don't have (i.e. the LED strip would not make good light on it's own, it would be really weird colors).
So...I begin....