kromix
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Posted this in my diary thread but wanted a seperate thread for it as I have questions, and if you do, ask away
So I finally got around to making the Mini-Refugium of Chaeto for the back middle chamber of my tank, thought I'd share my D.I.Y with you guys....
All I did was cut out pieces of eggcrate, smooth them out, connect them together w/ Zip Ties, Zip Tie the Submersible LED Tubes to each side and insert chaeto and submerge. Quick and easy.
Results:
[list type=decimal][*]No water temp increase maybe .5 degrees if that, still the same, water/unit does not get hot around it at all....
[*]As you can see the LED's were mounted to the lower portion of the eggcrate apparatus to avoid Light Spillover at night and there is none, complete and total darkness in the tank at night not a shred of light comes through the top into the tank....
Light effectively gets around and covers the whole chamber thanks to the 8 LED's on each side spread apart. Great light coverage
Ran it overnight, everything fine, will report back on how fast/well the chaeto grows.
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The reason I made a thread was to share it with you all that don't visit my diary thread, but really to ask something...
I need something between the eggcrate and the part where water flows through chamber 2 to 3 (where the pump is) to stop any little pieces of chaeto going into the pump.... What have you guys used? something fine enough to stop it from getting through, but not stopping the flow... Like a type of screen or something, not sure what to try or use or whats aquarium safe, any1 ever used anything like this???
So I finally got around to making the Mini-Refugium of Chaeto for the back middle chamber of my tank, thought I'd share my D.I.Y with you guys....
All I did was cut out pieces of eggcrate, smooth them out, connect them together w/ Zip Ties, Zip Tie the Submersible LED Tubes to each side and insert chaeto and submerge. Quick and easy.
Results:
[list type=decimal][*]No water temp increase maybe .5 degrees if that, still the same, water/unit does not get hot around it at all....
[*]As you can see the LED's were mounted to the lower portion of the eggcrate apparatus to avoid Light Spillover at night and there is none, complete and total darkness in the tank at night not a shred of light comes through the top into the tank....
Light effectively gets around and covers the whole chamber thanks to the 8 LED's on each side spread apart. Great light coverage
Ran it overnight, everything fine, will report back on how fast/well the chaeto grows.
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The reason I made a thread was to share it with you all that don't visit my diary thread, but really to ask something...
I need something between the eggcrate and the part where water flows through chamber 2 to 3 (where the pump is) to stop any little pieces of chaeto going into the pump.... What have you guys used? something fine enough to stop it from getting through, but not stopping the flow... Like a type of screen or something, not sure what to try or use or whats aquarium safe, any1 ever used anything like this???