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Originally Posted by JDigital
 Oh Christy... you always make me laugh...  Sorry to hear about your troubles though..
What are your plans for the VHOs now? |
Well at least I haven't lost that ability
Well yet again, due to my inability to guesstimate anything spatially or actually get out a tape measure, only about 40% of my VHO lighting is making it into my 90gal. The lumenarcs were an upgrade well after I built the hood and I only measured whether they'd fit, not whether they'd fit properly. The VHOs ended up sitting on the reflectors and a goodly portion of the light from them is actually reflected upwards into the hood (it lights the room quite nicely when the front of the hood is off
). So I would imagine if I keep the eurobracing clean in the new tank, probably about 40% will make it in there too.
I was also thinking I might go with blue LEDs. There is a guy here that custom builds LED light strips so I figured I might measure something up and go with that. I actually
will measure it this time though. Thats no guarantee that it will fit though.
The ushios are pretty nice without actinic supplementation. I might just go with them too. Who knows at this point? I bought a couple used radiums to try too, just for fun ($20 for a pair). Its really hard to determine anything until you're looking at it. Currently I'm trying to position the three reflectors on the light rack, what a pain in the arse when you only have one to physically work with. I'm just gonna leave it alone until I have all three to fiddle with.
Another thing I realized while looking at the eurobracing is that my wavy sea will likely get cooked all to hell where its sitting currently. So I'll have to take that into account as well when positioning the reflectors.
Its a good thing I'm not in construction. Or better yet, I didn't build the stand. That could have been scary!
Just found superglue on a third finger. Go me!