Planning a Biocube 14 build.

[Chewy954]

I'm doing a similar build, I went with the TrueLumen LED's and made my own kit. Glad I did.

Here's my kit's list:

12" TrueLumen Actinic Pacific Blue LED Strip - $34.48
12" TrueLumen 12k Diamond White LED Strip - $36.82
Power Supply - $15.00
Dual Ramp Timer Light - $37.86(Repackaged New from Amazon Warehouse)

Total: $124.16

The dual ramp timer light has connectors to control both LED colors on a light schedule, I minimized the amount of connectors used and it is the cleanest way you'll ged LED's in you're hood. Plenty of light. Checkout my photos for min and max brightness!

1% Minimum Brightness:

100% Maximum Brightness:

I'm even able to reuse the holes where the power ballasts ran through for the female connectors, it looks retail:

Putting the kit together myself, I was able to not only upgrade from manual dimmers to a digital one w/ timing abilities, and I saved a few bucks .

I'll keep an eye on this build as it's very similar to mine!

 

[DarthSimon]

Adding a Bluefish mini adds another $110 to that though. For that kind of money, you're close to a nanobox small retro kit that comes fully assembled and is nearly plug and play.

Could you point me in the right direction of a good easy to install retro kit? I've also been out of the hobby for a few years. Started up a 14 Gallon Biocube.


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[JDWells]

I have a Kessil A80 over mine with the hood gone. I was having heat issues and love the way Kessils look so it was the way to go for me.
As to mods, I can't find much out there for the 14, they all seem to be for the 29 which is way different. I pulled out all the all the false floors except for the bottom 1 in chamber 2. Heater in #1, Filter floss and sponges in #2. Keepin it simple and it's working so far.