14 gallon Steve's LED's retro kit upgrade

[envy]

Here are some pics for those who want to see Steve's LED retro kit on a 14 gallon biocube. I still need to upload the pic of the typhon controller they sell. This is under PC light then it goes to LED at 20%. Like always the pictures doesn't do justice to how item really looks in person. The picture of LED at 20% looks really purple on camera but in person it looks better. More pictures on the way

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pc light

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20% LED

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[envy]

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20% on controller with potentiometer at lowest. Still very bright

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typhon LED controller from Steve's LED's

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The total cost for kit was $282.98 with shipping. I am very pleased with this kit. Steve's LED's answered all my questions before, during, and after the build. I really recommend them.

[aquasport24]

I was just curious if an AI nano would be a better deal? less work , just plug and play..

[Zack]

I have an ai nano and love it. Great prices for a used unit

[envy]

It would be easier as far as plug-n-play but then you would have to have an open top and figure a way of hanging over tank which wouldn't be hard to do. You would also have to worry about water evaporating faster then normal since it's an open top. Not sure how the dimming process works with the AI nano but with the typhon I can control up to four channels and set the fade in and fade out to a time frame I want per channel. For example, channel 1 my light comes on at 9am it takes 1hr for it to reach 20%. Light begins to dim at 7pm takes 1hr for it to dim to 0%. So every 3 mins it goes up/down by 1% till its on/off. You can set the dimming duration to the time you want it doesn't have to be 1 hr . Not sure if the AI nano does this. I have not used channel 2, 3, or 4 since I only need to control one set of lights for now but I can control up to four different set of lights if I needed to with this controller.

[envy]

Dont get me wrong I think the AI nano is a great product but since I dont have one I can't say which is better. I have herd nothing but good thing from the AI LED kits but I cant say which is better. Just sharing on Steve's LED's incase anyone else was thinking about this route

[Zack]

The ai nano ramp times are setup by a time start and a ramp time. For my sunrise I have

Start: 8am
Max percent- 25%
Ramp time: 4 hours
So at 12 my AI ramps from 0-25 percent over a four hour period.

You also have eight timer functions, each with three channels and with the vegas each slot can have up to 20 channels

[envy]

The ai nano ramp times are setup by a time start and a ramp time. For my sunrise I have

Start: 8am
Max percent- 25%
Ramp time: 4 hours
So at 12 my AI ramps from 0-25 percent over a four hour period.

You also have eight timer functions, each with three channels and with the vegas each slot can have up to 20 channels

nice I'm wanting to bump up my % but dont want to stress out coral since I had them under PC lights. So i'm going to do so over time slowly.

[envy]

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Here is an updated picture of my 14 gallon biocube.
coral:
Captain America 5+ heads
Mohawks 15+ heads
Bam Bams 5+ heads
Lunar Eclipse 5+ heads
Unknown polyps 12+ heads(Green skirt green center)
Unknown polyps 7+ heads(reddish with green mouth)
purple with green tip yuma
Hollywood stunner chalice 10+ eyes
Red Monti Cap 2x2
2 small frags of a green with purple polyp birdsnest

Inverts:
1 turbo snail
4 nassarius snails
3 cerith snails
2 nerite snails

[nanoman28g]

Looking good.

[envy]

Thank you.

[polarbear]

This is a nice unit but I feel like the LEDs are really close together. I really like my rapid led kit.

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[envy]

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Captain America 6 heads
Mohawks 17+ heads
Bam Bams 6 heads
Lunar Eclipse 6 heads
Unknown polyps 14+ heads(Green skirt green center)
Unknown polyps 9+ heads(reddish with green mouth)
purple with green tip yuma
Hollywood stunner chalice 20+ eyes
Red Monti Cap 3x2.5
Green with purple polyp birdsnest(broke other piece adding coral and didn
Duncans 8 heads
Unknown polyps 10+heads(orange skirt yellow center)
Unknown polyps 10+heads(green skirt orange middle purple center)
Unknown polyps 10+heads(reddish/purple with wierd yellowish center)

Inverts:
1 turbo snail
4 nassarius snails
3 cerith snails
2 nerite snails

[envy]

Updated on my 14 gallon biocube (pictures taken 11/26/2013)
2 gallon water change every sunday

full tank 30%(blues & whites)
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/fulltank_zps9402654a.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/fulltank_zps9402654a.jpg.html)

full tank 30%(whites with blues turned low)
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/fulltank2_zpse4c3e86a.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/fulltank2_zpse4c3e86a.jpg.html)

Micromussa
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/xmasmicromussa_zps62cdfaa7.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/xmasmicromussa_zps62cdfaa7.jpg.html)

hollywood stunner chalice
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/hollywoodstunnerchalice_zps8e9d23f5.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/hollywoodstunnerchalice_zps8e9d23f5.jpg.html)

Acan(received as a free and was smaller then what it is now due to aptasia growing on left side. As you can see it is healing and seems to be growing fine.)
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/acan_zpsd0553656.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/acan_zpsd0553656.jpg.html)

duncan
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/duncans_zpscd485360.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/duncans_zpscd485360.jpg.html)

lunar eclipse
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/lunareclipse_zpsa187f5a2.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/lunareclipse_zpsa187f5a2.jpg.html)

purple with green tip yuma
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/purplewithgreentipyuma_zpsc9254e82.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/purplewithgreentipyuma_zpsc9254e82.jpg.html)

[BBQHILLBILLY]

just seen the pic, great job on the led wow looks good, very clean look with the plug in leds.
Send me the link to them if you can, thanks

pm sent

[envy]

Thank you and I sent you a pm

[envy]

All these images were taken 1-25-14 with my phone
Tank
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/Mobile%20Uploads/20140125_154209_zps798929df.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20140125_154209_zps798929df.jpg.html)
Hollywood stunner chalice
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/Mobile%20Uploads/20140125_154107_zpsc850d998.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20140125_154107_zpsc850d998.jpg.html)

Micromussa
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/Mobile%20Uploads/20140125_154041_zps47830dca.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20140125_154041_zps47830dca.jpg.html)

Duncan
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/Mobile%20Uploads/20140125_153945_zpsbeecc372.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20140125_153945_zpsbeecc372.jpg.html)

ACAN
http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii295/anmorale/Mobile%20Uploads/20140125_154015_zps16309e46.jpg (http://s267.photobucket.com/user/anmorale/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20140125_154015_zps16309e46.jpg.html)

[envy]

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/18/aga8uqy2.jpg
Micromussa with two of the three new heads growing

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/18/8u6y9e4y.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/18/6e4ymaha.jpg
Acan with two new heads growing

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/18/reza5emu.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/18/ena2amu6.jpg
Duncan's

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/18/a8ysyje6.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/18/usuhypah.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/18/guvaqa7y.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/18/ejure3y8.jpg
Left side view

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/18/etumu8yq.jpg
Right side view

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/18/hahaje6e.jpg
Front view

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/18/u4u4uhy4.jpg

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

[envy]

PPE
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/22/ru7y4e2y.jpg

Unknown zoa
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/22/by7y5adu.jpg

Blasto
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/22/sezygu9a.jpg

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

[envy]

Updated tank shot
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/22/ge8asedu.jpg

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

[envy]

Updated Acan
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/22/2ypasuve.jpg

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk

[envy]

Utter Chaos
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/30/rubumajy.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/30/e9a6ujyq.jpg

[nanoman28g]

I don't know why, but your tank looks bigger than 14G. Nice tank btw!

[envy]

Thank you