Spanko's bio cube, what in Posiden's name is he up to now?

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spanko

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Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/332430/spanko-s-29-bio-cube/740#post_3349637
WOW....sounds great....I'd love to see how the corals do with that.......
THROWING IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't wait until Monday so I can play with the controller.
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Originally Posted by nissan577 http:///forum/thread/332430/spanko-s-29-bio-cube/740#post_3349691
HENRY! when did you get those colonies!!!! or did they grow out from a frag?! holy cow bro the tank is :O!!!!! HEAVEN lol.and i gotta say those new LED are gonna look sick bro. ill be willing to buy the sunpod from you :)
Hey Carlos, yeah my little baby sticks are growing up into colonies. Probably gonna sell the Sunpod locally to avoid shipping, Paypal etc. etc.
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Originally Posted by Al&Burke http:///forum/thread/332430/spanko-s-29-bio-cube/740#post_3349734
Well Henry the other day I called you a smart @@$ - now I am going to call you a bad @$$ - that is just beautiful. You have to give me some tips on aquascaping - If you haven't read my other thread I ben having some problems, but I am going to make a negative a positive and rescape my tank when everything else is being mended. I am very impressed with your tank, thanks for sharing. Inspiring. I Know a gotta go clean my nose.
An @@$ by any other name is still and @@$! Thanx for looking in.
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Originally Posted by 1Snapple http:///forum/thread/332430/spanko-s-29-bio-cube/740#post_3349753
Thats one amazing tank, what is that green acro and the purple zoas. I also want a frag of the red monti
Green acro is some kind of tabling acro. Not really sure on any of the species identifications.
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Originally Posted by 1Snapple http:///forum/thread/332430/spanko-s-29-bio-cube/740#post_3349754
LED list looks good to. are you using royal blue LEDs? I also found out they make 5w LEDs
Not building this light it is a set from AquaIlluminations.
Thanx everyone for looking and commenting.
 
nissan577

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i gotta say the sps grow like weeds! another thing for the LED are you gonna do the famous thunderstorm with those? many people do it others dont.
 
spanko

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Originally Posted by nissan577 http:///forum/thread/332430/spanko-s-29-bio-cube/740#post_3349873
i gotta say the sps grow like weeds! another thing for the LED are you gonna do the famous thunderstorm with those? many people do it others dont.
It is there, why not try it see what happens. If nothing else people will be impressed.
Don't want to freak out the fishys though.
I like the moon cycles, the ability to ramp up and down the intensity of the LED' for sunrise sunset the best. If you think about moon cycles, this is when the coral time their spawning events to. At the least, good food for the tank.
 
nissan577

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Originally Posted by spanko http:///forum/thread/332430/spanko-s-29-bio-cube/760#post_3349942
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Originally Posted by nissan577 http:///forum/thread/332430/spanko-s-29-bio-cube/740#post_3349873
i gotta say the sps grow like weeds! another thing for the LED are you gonna do the famous thunderstorm with those? many people do it others dont.
It is there, why not try it see what happens. If nothing else people will be impressed.
Don't want to freak out the fishys though.
I like the moon cycles, the ability to ramp up and down the intensity of the LED' for sunrise sunset the best. If you think about moon cycles, this is when the coral time their spawning events to. At the least, good food for the tank.
that is true. we also have the thunderstorm at my job and i gotta say all the fishy go into hiding
it gives me a good laugh. but the aqua LED were made really amazing. the way you get ti play with them i gotta give it to them. let me know if you do the thunderstorm
 
spanko

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Actually put the light on today. Had a Drs. appointment and did not go back to work afterwards.
I am not happy with the spread of light currently but I knew this would be a concern. Wanted to get the light first to see if it was going to be okay, but alas, no. So I have a few ideas in mind to raise the module up a little to get additional spread. Now it is off to the local big box hardware store(s) to get the needed supplies.
I cannot tell you how wonderful this fixture is though. There are 8 "bulbs" , 2 rows of 4 lights. Each "bulb" has a white, blue and a royal blue 3 watt Cree led in it. Each color is controlled separately with dimming from 0-100 %. 14 user defined timers. So you can do just about any combination you want to. The timers allow the LED's to ramp up to you preset intensity over a time period you define. Want the whites to come on at 8am, ramp up to 50% intensity and take an hour to do so........set it and forget it! Same with ramp downs at night.
Actual moon cycles are in the controller. You set todays time and date, tell the light to control the moon cycles and it will adjust the blue light combinations the way the actual moon will shine outside. If no moon visible in tonights cycle, no light in the tank. Full moon outside, 3% intensity on some combination of the blue and royal blue bulbs in the tank. Think coral spawning cycles here.
Amazing!!!!
 
2quills

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Good deal, can't wait to see pics and catch updates on how well the livestock does under them. What are your plans for building a rig to raise it?
 
spanko

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I have the standard tank mount. It is about 3" off the water surface now and set at 90 degrees to the front panel.
I am gonna get some 3/4 inch square aluminum tube and put it on top of the tank mount. This will raise the light another almost 2" but also allow me to put the light parallel with the front panel. Holding the fixture like that at that height will give me the coverage I want both side to side and front to back.
 
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After I get it set on the tank where it is covering the way I want it to. Forgot to mention, did a thunderstorm. It is pretty cool to watch. The light starts to dim just like cloud cover coming in over the reef. Then random flashes of different intensities of the white light. Sometimes two in a row of different intensities, other times 20 seconds to a minute in between flashes. Some are really intense. You can set how many you want to have in a day, what percent chance you want there to be that there even will be one. I have it set now for 1 per day at a 24% chance that there will be one. I wonder what affect lighting flashes have on the coral if any.
 
2quills

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That's kind of neat with the thunderstorms and random cloud cover. I've only seen it in video but it looked pretty cool. I've read some reports that people say you shouldn't do that as it's bad for the LED's but haven't been able to find any info that truly confirms or disprove this.
 
2quills

2quills

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So I take it that the fixture comes with some type of programable controler. Are you able to set it to do a thuderstorm say, O'...maybe like three times a month and let it go on it's own or do you have to turn the random storm generator on and off manually?
 
nissan577

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so it looks like you are going with it? hows the success rate with these led and the sps henry? i hear so many things i dont know what to think anymore.
 
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