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Yep! I dusted off the old Brownie and heading over to Sunny's later today to take advantage of afternoon sun. :dance:

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...

Ed, thanks for posting the video.....I watched the entire hour....great video!!!

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!

Happy Reef'in New Year to all!

SOLD!

1/2 inch can work....just make sure there's no high spots on the top of the dimensional wood. If there is, plane or sand them down.

Agree with @saltkreep88 ....you'll be just fine. There actually is no need for that off-centered brace. As far as the top is concerned, my preference is to top with 3/4 plywood. My reasoning is that dimensional lumber has slight lumps, bumps and twists, so that it potentially is not...

Mark, don't worry about alk and its impact on pH. Just maintain alk and your pH will be controlled by the CO2 in your tank.

PM'd you back.

Yes it is

Oh wow....sorry Jose. I'd still stick it in the corner of the tank and hope and pray there was a pinch of live tissue still on it.

I have four MP's...and I like them, but they are costly. I like two things: 1) They are not as bulky as conventional powerheads. 2) AC wiring is outside the tank. With that said, I very recently purchased a Jebao PP 15 for 70 bucks, and holy carp, does that thing push water. I think it...

Darn autocorrect.....I fixed it Sunny. Does your phone autocorrect powerhead?

I don't know fish problems....but I will say that that looks bad. Could it have stuck it's mouth in a powerhead?