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 Posted: May 03 2012 at 9:36pm |
Ok, here is my documented 28 Cree Led build. It took me probably 25 hours over the course of four days to complete the build start to finish.
I started out by polishing the heat sinks and then wiped them down with acetone to remove any residues that may have been left on them.
Here is the difference after polishing one heatsink.
Both polished and ready to go.
I ran to the LHS and picked up two pieces of aluminum 1" angle along with some chain and "s" hooks for hanging the fixture in the canopy.
All laid out ready to be clapped, drilled and bolted together.
I then measured and drilled the angle to use as a template for drilling the heatsinks (I forgot to take a pic of this step). All Clamped up.
Drilled and ready for bolts.
Bolted together and ready for LED's.
I drilled a hole in each end of the angle big enough to fit the eye bolts I had used to hang my halides in the stand.
Now it was time to start attaching the LED's!
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 9:34pm |
Next, I switched to LED's. I DIY'ed a fixture with parts from Rapid LED. Here is the build.
Here is the unboxing! 
The 2 Color dimming kit. 
Partially assembled, minus the wiring/soldering. 
The heatsinks with screws and thermal grease.  
The Drivers and power cords.  
Miscellaneous wire/supplies and led tester. 
All 28 led's convienently labled with black 80 degree lenses! 
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Posted: May 03 2012 at 9:32pm |
Well, I kind of forgot about this thread on here! A lot has changed with the tank in the last six months. I will try to pull some of the major events from posts on other forums to get it up to date.
First, I added an MP10 ES that my wife (Santa) bought me for Christmas.
I spent a few hours tinkering with it, and have it to a point were I am happy with it, but I am sure there is more tinkering in my future! Ha Ha!
The unboxing! 
What is in the box...  
On the tank. 
I mounted the controller on the side of the stand with the included velcro.  I still need to tidy up the wires with some zip ties.
After flipping through the instruction manual, it became very apparent to me that Vortech intends these pumps to be used in pairs. 4 pages of the quick start manual are about assembly, and the next six are about pairing two pumps together. I called my LFS yesterday to see if they still had one on the shelf, (because they were still $265 instead of the $280 everyone else is selling them for) no luck. So I will be keeping my eye out on the classified section here and on other forums to try to pick up a second for the other side of the tank.
Anyway, here is a short video of the one running on my tank, making a "wave".  |
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Posted: November 19 2011 at 2:59pm |
You can see where it was in this pic.
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Posted: November 19 2011 at 2:58pm |
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^Probably wasn't getting enough light down there. Sorry to hear! |
It wasn't down there until after it died.... It was situated about 2/3 of the way up my rock work.
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Posted: November 17 2011 at 3:53pm |
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Oh... as for replacement... THere are a lot of people with this coral. Many will frag kinda as demand comes... Just post a LF Green Birds Nest kinda title in the classifieds and you will likely get more than 1 offer. I would frag mine but its moving to a bigger tank and I want it to be healthy for the transition in the next weeks.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler -A.E.
57 Gallon RImless build in progress check the thread before if becomes boring and just full of nice pictures of colorful coral!
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Posted: November 17 2011 at 3:48pm |
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Second^ Also, these like LOTS of flow... doubt it had much on the sand. Also, better to mount on rock, SPS generally not so happy in sand... Better luck next, we all loose one now and again.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler -A.E.
57 Gallon RImless build in progress check the thread before if becomes boring and just full of nice pictures of colorful coral!
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Posted: November 17 2011 at 8:31am |
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^Probably wasn't getting enough light down there. Sorry to hear!
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Posted: November 17 2011 at 7:35am |
I took a few pictures to update y'all on my Rose anemones! They are looking better and better every day since the split. They have been in my tank now for about ten days.  Here is my first casualty. My GBN (or the skeletal remains of). You can only see one tiny spot that still has any sort of PE. Sad day... I have been looking for another frag to replace it, but haven't seen any in months around here. 
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Posted: November 10 2011 at 6:29am |
Tanuki wrote:
^Im sure god could avoid cycling the ocean haha.
Did you get any "purple up" from the reef fest? You can have my bottle I got if you want it.
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No I didn't. I didn't go to Reef Fest. I may take you up on that offer!
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Posted: November 09 2011 at 7:01pm |
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Burt has nice stuff! It's great you got two anemones now.. great pics!
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The only clowns I like are in my tank!
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Posted: November 09 2011 at 3:51pm |
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^Im sure god could avoid cycling the ocean haha.
Did you get any "purple up" from the reef fest? You can have my bottle I got if you want it.
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Posted: November 09 2011 at 2:53pm |
Tanuki wrote:
Many religions would say that the ocean was in fact stocked in a day though. Im lost on the quote.
Looks like that rock is finally starting to take color!
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Not to go into religion, but was it infact one day, or was in a couple....? Just some food for thought.
Yeah, it is finally getting some color. I wish it would be purple coraline encrusted already!
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Posted: November 09 2011 at 1:03pm |
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Many religions would say that the ocean was in fact stocked in a day though. Im lost on the quote.
Looks like that rock is finally starting to take color!
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Posted: November 09 2011 at 11:44am |
Snowsrfr wrote:
Tanks is looking great and coming along nicely! I applaud your patience. Slow and steady wins the race in the reef game. Love build/progress threads from the SLC reefers, since I don't get down that way much to check out how other people do things.
Keep up the good work.
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One of my favorite quotes is," The ocean wasn't stocked in a day, neither is a successful reef tank."
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Posted: November 09 2011 at 10:18am |
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Tanks is looking great and coming along nicely! I applaud your patience. Slow and steady wins the race in the reef game. Love build/progress threads from the SLC reefers, since I don't get down that way much to check out how other people do things.
Keep up the good work.
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Posted: November 09 2011 at 7:54am |
Well, I had the pleasure of visiting with bfessler on Monday night! He has an amazing frag tang set up in his basement. Needless to say I drained my fishy fund and picked up a Rose Anemone, 5 heads of Nuclear Green Candy Cane (correct me if I have the name wrong Burt), and a frag of Green Star Polyps.
I added the anemone to the tank and had a surprise a couple hours after adding it.....it started splitting already!!!!!!!!
The middle stages of the spilt.
The following morning it was done! I had two RBTA's!
I have read that they can split when life is going well, or when they are stressed. I would imagine this was induced by stress. Hopefully "the twins" will settle into the tank and grow well now. They are still roaming the tank a bit. Hopefully they will quickly find a spot that they will be happy and open up a bit more.
The Nuclear Green Candy Cane is probably one of the coolest corals I have owned. The camera can't even pick up the true color of this piece!
This is probably my favorite picture I have every taken. I took this shortly after lights out!
My Emerald Crab was feeling left out so he decided to pose for a few pictures.
I will keep updating this thread as things progress!
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