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  1. NatureBoy

    Amano RIP?

    RIP Takashi, the greatest creative influence in my life
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    Does new lighting have to be expensive?

    Reckon this will work really well for you. Here's a link to my little journal on retrofitting cree leds into hood: http://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/diy-move-from-t5-to-led.33917/#post-389229 would be confident to do it again but reckon those cree xbd floodlights linked above would be just as...
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    DIY move from T5 to LED

    Here are some of the build photos, it's worked out really well. A thing I'm really pleased about is that the lights don't emit as much heat down on the surface of the water so I can maintain 25 degree temps year round which was a major problem in past years.
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    Does new lighting have to be expensive?

    doh, linked to wrong ones... check these instead: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/High-Quality-18W-6-CREE-LED-Work-Lamp-Flood-Light-DC-9-30V-Pure-White-Square-New-/181273768982?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a34c23416
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    Does new lighting have to be expensive?

    these will be excellent: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1550LM-Mini-6-Inch-18W-6-x-3W-CREE-LED-Light-Bar-as-Worklight-Spot-Flood-Light-/271609462930
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    Tom's Poco Pozo

    this reads like spam!
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    what led

    I did a cree xbd led fixture this summer: http://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/diy-move-from-t5-to-led.33917/#post-363110 star board mounted cree leds / driver etc are pretty cheap to be honest, and that's even for a consumer buying not in quantity. All said the mini floodlights above would do a...
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    what led

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/High-Quality-18W-6-CREE-LED-Work-Lamp-Flood-Light-DC-9-30V-Pure-White-Square-New-/181273768982 these are equivalent to tmc 600 (6 cree xbd 6500k) amazing value, power and "natural day" light.
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    Which of these LED?

    have a look at this cree option: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/High-Quality-18W-6-CREE-LED-Work-Lamp-Flood-Light-DC-9-30V-Pure-White-Square-New-/181273768982 (tmc grobeams have 5 or 6 of these very same emitters) so this will be very similar in performance. I have a diy cree LED fitting using these...
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    DIY move from T5 to LED

    LEDs arrived super quick from Germany, ordered last tuesday and arrived friday! wired up all 20 cree xbds into 2 parallel series set onto aluminium heatsink (soldering pretty ropey but all tight and fixed), mounted the heat sink onto part of old hood. switched on and bingo 20 bright leds...
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    DIY move from T5 to LED

    cheers, I've done lots of reading up, but if it's anything like the airfix kits I used to do it'll get messy pretty quick.
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    DIY move from T5 to LED

    Having been inspired by the light in this natural pool: and in need of a summer project, I've used this tutorial to build my understanding on DIY LED lights: After a couple of days procrastinating over where to buy I went with...
  13. NatureBoy

    home made fish food

    This video takes homemade fish food to another level! It's quite long winded, and weirdly edited, but the detail and insight is awesome. I'll certainly be incorporating the ideas into my next batch...
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    Adding nitrate to stocked aquarium

    in conclusion then: add nitrate if you feel / see the need to but keep up with the water changes:clap:
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    Adding nitrate to stocked aquarium

    nitrifying / denitrifiying bacteria co exist in symbiotic biofilms, as the nitrifying bacteria use up the available oxygen, the anaerobic conditions exist for nitrate to be the next available electron acceptor. This happens all over the aquarium where bacteria can form biofilms. Diana Walstad's...
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