DIY Reef Aquarium LED
by Aquaboy on Monday, July 26th, 2010 | 25 Comments
This is my 75 gallon mixed reef aquarium lit with ONLY LEDs. See my build thread on ReefCentral.com. April Thread of The Month!
@4k3el If tank water ever smells then you aren’t taking very good care of your fish..
If everything is in balance it should actually kind of smell good and earthy.
Hi, I was wondering what kind of led’s did you use and what kind of power source you use to. Like did you use ballast or some 12v power adapter?
Hi, I was wondering what kind of led’s did you use and what kind of power source you use to. Like did you use ballast or some 12v power adapter?
How have you corals been doing since the switch to LED? Are the SPS liking it?
Brother could you tell me how many colours have you used in this to get the colour in the video and it looks just fabulous. I’ am waiting for your advice. Is that costly….?
WOW!
@soundwave2thousand hey love the tank, but if you would like some new LED Pixle sticks for your aquarium, please check out bblites.com. we have a three color stick. red, green, and blue. they are water proof and we also can install auto-fade mode. please ask questions for more information.
thanks
with the open top doesn’t the room smell?
Are those lights strong enough to keep your tank healthy?
beautiful realisation
where can we find info to do the same ramp ?
thanks
dude this pretty coool
Yo can u send a cop of the specs to me?
Hey, I saw your build thread on ReefCentral, and I was planing on following it exactly for my 75 gallon build, how are your corals doing
Do they give off heat? Enought heat to raise the temp on your tank?
Nice tank!
@dmontalvo15 not sure about clams or Acro well my montipora seems to be doing well so far
TMC led are good but you need a lot of them i had to get 2 blue strips and 3 panel ones for a 400 liter tank
i use leds they are fine for lps softies and sps i grow monti under mine
iv seen a sps tank with LED’s somewhere on youtube i think they said they had been using them n the tank for six months. but dont quote me on that
I heard that LEDs are pretty good but they are better suited for softies. On reefcentral someone mentioned that LEDs are not recommended for harder corals such as Acros, Montipora and Clams. How do you feel about that?
hang on iam lost im new to marine (setting up slowly) so u can have a running tank with led’s and reef still growing and its better then floros and metal halids ?
so how are all the leds conected ? thanks
btw very nice tank
I have a 22 gal that is 20 in deep 16 in wide how much would it cost to build a led array to keep shrooms and xenia.thanks
@soundwave2thousand for just the lights?
Very nice build, i read your thread on RC, good job. Just want to know how the SPS’s are doing… I see you have some monti caps and acros?
Sure is. It shimmers like Halides never could.