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Thank you for your post and welcome to Manhattan reefs! I did actually use a current limiter. Its called a buckpuck. I realize that resistors are cheaper but being such a novice at electronics I opted to just pay for the buckpuck instead of using resistors because its simpler.

Yes, they are wired in series and you are right that for this project a parallel circuit would work better. For a large project though, where you would have multiple strings, parallel circuits are not ideal. From what I was told, if you connect a few parallel strings together on a driver (a...

Thanks. I still have to go buy a 10g and drill it and all that to re-do my fuge. My fuge broke when I moved from copiage to east meadow last month. One of my helpers put a bit too much pressure on the pipe coming out of the bulk head and cracked the tank. :irked: I have a clip on type...

Thanks! Its tough to quantify. The buckpuck was $15 and the LED's were around $6 each and I already had everything else laying around. You can make a MUCH cheaper fuge light but the purpose here was to practice a little bit before starting a larger project. not a problem. I was happy to do...

Introduction: The purpose of this thread is to explain in detailed layman's terms the steps involved to make a simple LED light. You don't have to be an electrical engineer to make one of these lights. With a little effort, practice and some basic knowledge of electricity anyone can make an...

I think carbon can help get rid of the smell

A whole bunch of freshwater aquarium gravel free to whoever wants it. It is a hodge podge of different gravels, mainly pebbles but there is a bunch of planted aquarium stuff like flourite, eco-complete and this volcanic stuff i forget the name of. Theres about 3 kitchen size garbage bags of...

I recently bought 25 lbs of each and I got alot more pukani size wise than fiji. Its alot less dense so you end up with more size with the same weight. I don't think that the pukani is actual dry rock from the ocean but i could be wrong. It seems like it is DIY rock. Either way, i don't...

Cool fish that digs your aquascape. Oh pun! :tongue1:

Not necessarily true. Many ULNS tanks that are dosed with vodka or zeovit etc still grow algae despite having undetectable levels of nutrients. Also, the algae could be trapping most of the nutrients.

I just go up to them and say "Do you wash your clothes with windex because i can see myself in your pants!" and that usually gets a good response with tension and everything its awesome

jeez alot of broken glass in this thread. i hope you're not too broken to enjoy your tank.

i did this. drilling a hole in the u tube will work and you dont need a pump however I recommend it for restarting the siphon unless you really like the taste of saltwater. When you shut your return pump off the small airline hose will siphon the water out of the u-tube and break the siphon...

if its an open top, point a fan at the top of the display too. the more evaporation, the cooloer your tank will get. my 20g evaporates a whopping 2 gallons a day when it gets really hot but stays around 82 deg in a non air condtioned room. if you top off wih kalkwasser, be carefull you dont...

this is what i was hopeing. i haven't seen those reflecors for sale so i'll have to look around. I still have no idea if i'll be able get the colors i want. I don't see how i can figure it out either without just buying it and trying it. sucks.