Red Sea Aquavase

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Well I ended up getting my own Aquavase for my room. After helping my sisters fiance set his up last night, I just had to get my own.

all pictures located here

Well, this is what we started with:



I ended up giving Paul my light, as I wanted to do some LED testing.

I decided to use the same LED's as in my moonlighting thread.

So I made my own bracket to hold the fixtures:



I made it on the CNC. I milled a slot down the center to hide the wiring. I ended up using 3 of the fixtures, 2 white 8LED and 1 blue 8LED. Once I finish the wiring, I may wire it so I can turn off just the white, and leave the blue on at night.



The bracket isin't finished yet, as I didn't know what height I wanted it above the surface. I may just end up making it adjustable.

I threw in some rock just to give you a idea of the lighting (so don't flame my aquascaping )

Here's the first test. I just sat the fixture on the top, its about 1" from the surface of the water. You'll notice that its quite blue in the middle from the blue LED.



And here is the LED fixture kept about 2" above the surface. You'll notice the blue is a little more washed out along with the white LED's, which looks a little better IMO.



Here's one more picture with the fixture above 2":



So far, i'm "somewhat" happy with the LED's. It doesn't seem as bright as the 7w as I thought it would be. Still its pretty good. I "may" make another fixture with 2 more WHITE led fixtures on it. We'll see what happens. I think with some sand in there, it may brighten things up a little more.

Stay tuned... comments, ideas are welcome ...