LED marmalade
 

ok, so i'm going to go with these
lights for my 5.5gallon im secretly working on:black:, and im not sure if i should get 1 or 2 of these fixtures.
Oh, and the tank wont be SPS or anything, just some zoos,rics,softies, and maybe a bit of lps.

I checked out the link and it looks like a good concept, keep us informed on how it turns out

no problem. maybe i'll post some teaser pics if i can just figure out how to turn my projects into pictures on sketchup

Those won't work for you, they're good for much but moonlights.

do you have any experience with them?

The store I work at sells them and I took one out of the box and messed with it for a bit. They have a super narrow beam so on something like a 5g they are going to put down 4 shafts of light rather than lighting up an area. I suppose you could try putting a bunch of the modules on the tank raised up a bit but you'd need 10 of the things to light it up decently.

well that's a bit discouraging. maybe I'll try some DIY LED's. vive marmalade

ok, after looking at some threads about DIY LED..i don't think its a job for a 13 year old to be doing :lol:

this isn't looking too promising, but i'll keep looking. please tell me if you see something that would work

i think i have found the marmalade!

its a fixture that would give 50 lumens per gallon (is that any good?)

oh yeah, heres the fixture :p

http://www.nanocustoms.com/product_i...products_id=28

woot!
 

I HAVE FOUND THE MARMALADE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

check em out. i think i will get four (2 blue, 2 white)

http://cgi.ebay.com/WHITE-12V-24-LED...3A1|240%3A1318