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Here's my thoughts.....if you're going to keep the back and side glass clean, black or blue work. However, if you're going to let coraline grow and cover it, I think black would blend in better with the glass being covered. I think blue patches would stick out more. JMTC
I can see it now.....
ACRO by Ralph Lauren
Suggest Googling "MACNA 2016 Dana Riddle" and watch his talk about light, flow and alkalinity.
Best of luck!
Joe, I know you've probably already stated it on other posts, but my pea-brain can't remember.....what BP reactor are you running and how much BP's in there?
I think what I'd try first is reducing the amount of BP's.
I like your thinking. I've kicked around the idea of automating my water changes, but haven't committed because of lack of water supply and waste dumping close by. My interest was solely convenience. Note that you can't maintain alk and calc by water changes alone in an established tank...
Glad to see you've got it figured out. If your interested, the blue beads I purchased off eBay were 453 nm. I paid $20 for 50 beads, and I just looked them up and they're down to $16, free shipping.
If your problem is that the positive and negative leads are contacting the flat stock, I just took an old bead and found that you can bend up the leads. That's a potential fix, if that's your problem.
I'd be willing to bet your issue is that you are shorting out / grounding out the beads.
I went back to Paul B's build and you can see he mounted the beads on a disc of copper, allowing the positive and negative leads to be soldered separately (not contacting the copper):
If you mounted...
I'm prefacing my comments by letting you know that I don't know what I'm talking about. However, what little I do know is that you can't simply flip series and parallel connections. Without changing the power source, you need to set up those LEDs how they were set up in the original fixture...
Marcus, thanks for the heads up.....but Riverhead is way out there on LI.....too far for me.....but would love to see Joe's big tank!
I'm also scratching my head about "Northeast’s largest Reef Aquarium Conference". Do you think this is larger than RAP, which is a two day event?
Why I must say, it looks like the interior designer that did your closet also did my garage....similar appearance! :eek: :D
Good luck with your generous donations!