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I already got it. :grin:

Some of my fish at their feeder.

Being that I am Santa, I do the bringing. (with a lot of help of course) :grin:

A friend gave me fifty lenses for my new water cooled LED fixture. They made a big difference and now I don't go blind when I open the front of the tank. They also cut down on the scattered light that was going all over the place as I hate to see the back of the tank. I still need about 20...

Now that my water cooled light works I think I will build another one for my algae scrubber. I think this one will be an air cooled copper one because it will be to small for a water pump. I just need to buy a copper plate about 8" square and I am going to solder fins all over the back and add...

Actually a member is sending me some lenses for this thing. That should double the output and put the light where I want it. I go blind when I open the top of the tank

Heart attack is the thing you need to say, but eventually we will all say that and no one will get in because we will all seemingly will be having heart attacks. :eek: We are all recovering, thanks.

I was there this year.

I just installed the new water cooled lights and they work perfectly. They seem brighter than my old lights and they should be because there are almost twice as many LEDs. I am running them a few inches higher than the old fixture for a day so the corals have time to put on sunscreen. So far...

I think if there were no problems it wouldn't interest me and we would call it stamp collecting. :dance:

Why do so many people get out of the hobby? This hobby has been around for 44 years and yet you can count the number of tanks that are at least 20 years old on one hand. OK, maybe two, I didn't really count, but work with me. The vast majority of threads are very new tanks and the second...

Completed heat exchanger. I am so glad I decided to build it rather than buy a car heater core. It was a fun build and a core would have been very heavy and over-kill as I don't need that much cooling. I am getting the stitches out of my hand tomorrow and if I get the time I need to drive to...

I have 4 of those Star Showers and one for inside the house. They are sold out but I want to get 3 more. Love the things.

The system is finished except for the acrylic splash guard and some bleeder valves to get the air out of the system. It is being tested on my bench to see first of all how it runs and second, how efficient the cooling system is. Here is the heat exchanger. I still need to put it in a...

The control box is built and tested. The copper tubes also arrived today so I can start building the heat exchanger.

I finished the schematic and will start wiring it.

My urchin ate the top off of my mandarin and pipefish feeder. Great. Luckil I have more pieces of nylon stockings (no, not mine) that I can replace it with. Now to do this without getting my hand wet.

I am working on the pump/power supply/ shut off switch/ LED drivers etc and it is all in this enclosure, I tested the pump and am very surprised that that little pump pumps faster than my sink can supply. The pump pressurizes the system, pushing up the glass with the magnet in it, engaging the...

Two days ago I had some knee and hand surgery, just some tune ups because if you worked construction all your life and didn't ruin your joints, you didn't do it right. Yesterday I got a call from the GYM where my wife goes and a piece of machinery fell on her and clonked her in the back of her...

I just got home from the hospital for some knee and hand surgery and was surprised to see my circulating pump for my water cooled fixture arrived. It is smaller than I thought. I figured I would post it before the anesthesia wears off and I start screaming. This little pump is very cool but I...