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wavemaster

12-07-2012 03:01 PM

How many hours per day is everyone running their lights?

Chief Hill

12-07-2012 03:13 PM

I'm running lights about 10 hrs.

Green mushroom
Trumpet coral
Hairy mushroom
Green star polyp
Yellow polyp
Green and peach zoes
Hammer coral
Frogspawn

All appears to be doing well. Still a new tank and still learning myself.
Ls
2 blue green chromis
1 lawnmower blenny
1 cleaner shrimp
1 fire dartfish
1 tubewoorm / feather duster
1 pink sea cucumber

BC564

12-07-2012 03:28 PM

I run mine from 8am to 5pm.....coincidently that is how long I am in my office... so its all about me

Treebeard

12-12-2012 10:03 PM

What LED kit or you installing? I am planning on setting up my wife's Biocube with an LED retrofit.

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Originally Posted by BC564 (Post 770325)

I have a biocube 14gal in my office at work. People are always over to see it.

have two clowns in there which draw the kids in all the time. The clowns love the fuzzy mushrooms which have grown crazy over the last year....

One orange spot goby.
Green serpent star....which I need to transfer to my home tank....he was tiny 4 years ago and is now a monster.
bunch of hermit crabs and snails.

I am running the original lighting but am switching over to the LED kit over christmas.

RBTA ....
Candy Cane
frog spawn
tons of fuzzy mushrooms.....they are huge.....some are 8 inches across and over lapping ...i need to take some of them home too.

BC564

12-12-2012 11:14 PM

This is the one I have been looking at .

http://www.rapidled.com/oceanic-bioc...-retrofit-kit/

Xadieu

12-13-2012 02:12 AM

I have Steve's LED retrofit kit for biocube 29 and it works great! I also got the boostled controller to control the moon cycle, gotta say it's pretty awesome.

Treebeard

12-13-2012 02:19 AM

Do you have more info on this? Any links? Sorry, but I am not sure who Steve is...

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Originally Posted by Xadieu (Post 772915)

I have Steve's LED retrofit kit for biocube 29 and it works great! I also got the boostled controller to control the moon cycle, gotta say it's pretty awesome.

Xadieu

12-13-2012 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Treebeard (Post 772922)

Do you have more info on this? Any links? Sorry, but I am not sure who Steve is...

Here's the link http://shop.stevesleds.com/

You can choose between CREED led or Luxeon Phillip LED both offers 3w voltage but in a biocube you would never need that much, I run mine at 25% intensity for whites and 35% for blues and trust me it is powerful. You can't even go up to 100% without blinding your eyes. Currently the Phillip are little bit better than CREED so that's why I went with Steve's LED instead of Rapid LED.

Good luck!

Xadieu

12-13-2012 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by wavemaster (Post 770978)

How many hours per day is everyone running their lights?

Currently running 10 hours along with 2 hours of moonlighting. If you use LED you never have to change light bulbs because the spectrum never changes, you just use them until they die which is like 50,000 hours and that works our to be 10 years+ if you use T5 or MH then you gotta change the bulbs every 6-8 months and the cost can add up over time.

Treebeard

12-13-2012 06:09 PM

Are you running them on a controller or timers?

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Originally Posted by Xadieu (Post 772936)

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