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Old 05-29-2012, 10:21 PM
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We have had no moonlight on this tank for a long time now and with no way to see the tank at night my bro and i decided to diy one. we put together two light fixtures to go on either side of the tank. they are hidden inside the tv chambers, we used one white, one blue, and 5 uv leds per side. they run at around .25w total (all 14 leds). we decided to try out uv leds in the fixture for fun and after seeing what kind of pop they had we needed to balance everything out, so there are 2 knobs to control 2 channels, one channel is the white and blue, the other is the uv channel. this way we can see things pop whenever we want by cranking up one channel while being able to do night viewing by turning up the white blue channel. at night we have the moonlight very very dim.

with many new led fixtures on the market featuring uv we wanted to see for ourselves what they looked like. i'd have to say that uv is INSANE. things that didn't pop under actinic now do, and things that popped like crazy under actinic pretty much look lame in comparison to the kind of pop under uv one problem is that its really hard to photograph, so you'll have to take my word for it

moonlight fixture


2 channel moonlight controller


cotton candy chalice under direct uv
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