Renton's Upgrade

Haha, I been following the videos. Tank looks sweet on that video. Very pro video recording. Really shows off the tank. The stand and canopy are sweet too. Nice woodwork and painting.
 
are those the WWC hologram and My miami frags? i just picked up those too they are super nice!! man i love those blastos i picked up some blood red ones but those are super nice!!
 
Haha, I been following the videos. Tank looks sweet on that video. Very pro video recording. Really shows off the tank. The stand and canopy are sweet too. Nice woodwork and painting.

Thanks Sahin. I am fortunate enough to have some friends with word working and video/photography skills!

are those the WWC hologram and My miami frags? i just picked up those too they are super nice!! man i love those blastos i picked up some blood red ones but those are super nice!!

Yes they are from aquavista99, the same as you I bet. Yeah, I really like those blastos, never seen ones like that before.
 
I have to play with it a little bit depending on the board, but on RC, you can get the imbed code from the "share" tab in youtube. In the other message board that is censored here, there is a movie icon where you just paste the URL of the video and it imbeds it for you.
 
I have been thinking about adding some supplemental LED's that fill in some of the color spectrum that may be missing from my AI SOL blue LED lights. After looking at a few different routes I went with a custom http://www.buildmyled.com . They let you pick the LED colors you want for a 12" section of your light and then repeat that pattern across the whole light.

My light is 5ft and my LED selection was heavy with Violet, Cyan and Green with a few blues and reds mixed in.

The light its self was thinner in both width and height then I thought, which is great for potential mounting options.

I may mount the light at the front of my tank in the rim that was recently added and angle it towards that back, still playing with the idea.

The light intensity is also controllable via my apex controller.

Here are a few pictures of the light, the ghosting effect in the lit up picture gives you an idea of each LED color in the strip





 
In mounting the new LED strip, I wanted to be able to angle it and adjust it from time to time. So, I mounted the light to a 1x2 and then mounted the 1x2 to the inside of my top rim using an "L" bracket. I am able to then move the 1x2 and light up and down, allowing me to play with the angle of the light.






The light itself adds a "sea green" color to the tank. It will be a while before I really power the lights up. I am currently running them for a few hours a day at 40% to allow the corals to acclimate to the new light.
 
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