Work Entertainment: Biocube 8

[txg8gxp]

Good to hear it is all coming together for you. You will love it...Mine has ran perfect, and all the coral seems plenty happy.sps,lps(acans,dendro,etc),zoa's, etc. Everything is happy. I run might pots right around 3/4 and run the two stock fans only. I haven't turned on the two extra fans in atleast 3-4 days. With no extra water temp.

[corruption]

Install is complete, pics to come in the morning... can't unload them and upload from work

The whole thing went together as easy as could be -- took me about 2 hours of work to assemble all the parts into the hood. There's definitely less room in the BC8 hood than the BC14 -- I was quite a bit more cramped than Steven was.. but I got it all to fit. Looks great so far -- but I definitely see what Erik was referring to with the sharp points on the peaks of rocks... there's definitely a blue tinge to certain angles and peaks. Not a big deal -- the adjustability of the color temperature more than makes up for that

As nice as the color is all-around, the thing I'm most impressed with is the royal blues.. they provide a seriously nice depth to the actinic pop -- color me happy

As I said -- pics, and maybe a video, in the morning!

-Justin

[corruption]

Too darn tired, and occupied, to post pics and such.. I'll get it tonight

-Justin

[Jordan N.]

Sounds like it worked out really well --You may be getting a call to help me put together some of those royal blues. odyessa actenics are really bad. Can't wait for pictures.

Jordan N.

[corruption]

Finally got my camera back in working order and have some pics to share -- just a couiple, cuz hectic work hasn't let me get real good closeups

As is always the case with high output LED's, the colors are not very representative of what the tank actually looks like -- the white balance against the LED's is just near impossible.




Edit: argh, new forum size limits...

-Justin

[ramsey]

I've seen this tank in person (I work w/ Justin). These pictures do not do it justice. Your tank is awesome! I love it! I also really like what you've done with the lighting. Adjustable LEDs, freaking awesome. I'd love to do that to my nano at some point but I'm not brave enough yet.

[corruption]

Thanks, Ramsey I've got the upgrades for my LED's already up there and waiting, but haven't had a chance to do the upgrade yet.. Gonna swap to 8 white XPG's, and 10 royal blue XRE's -- should be about twice as bright as it is now

Between Ev and myself, we could knock any fears out of doing an upgrade for your nano for you -- just come grab me at work sometime, I'll be in Wed. night

-Justin