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Any chance you have connections for Colomesus asellus, the South American Puffer... or could point me in the right direction?

Super nice tank. Great job! I assume you're running CO2?

This is right. He will be the cheapest by a long shot, but you WILL deal with issues in one shape or another.

I think Concept will sell whatever sizes you need for regular glass or starphire. I don't know what the prices are like compared to others. I was going to go down this road myself until I bought a 350g tub instead. A little easier on my wallet lol

Really nice. I'm jealous!

Dang. 7.5 and no chlorine? Sign me up Thanks for answering. I may have to give discus a shot. Did you order yours or source them locally?

Very nice. Are you using RO water, peat, etc.? Find them more difficult to care for than your other fish? I've never taken the plunge into discus but I've been heavily considering it for a number of years... lol

I just thought of another thing. The ability to chain the lighting units together to be controlled all as one unit is another nice feature that some premium quality lights have. Definitely not a "must have" but it's a nice feature nonetheless for people with large tanks. Again, this would probably be more of a controller thing than a lighting thing, but that's what most people are looking for in my experience, is controller features and customizability, along with a full spectrum light which you've already designed from the sounds of things.

I built my own LED fixture a few years ago with the help of people on forums. Here's why I built what I did, and probably most other people would agree. Ideal features for aquarium use... -Dim each colour of LED in increments of 1% or smaller, all on their own timers so they can be programmed to fade in/out as desired. This is if you wanted to sell controllers... Probably the most requested feature for higher end lighting system though. -You'd probably need 2 different versions of the light. One for freshwater and one for saltwater corals. Freshwater will be much "warmer" than the saltwater variant as geleen mentioned in the post above. -Multiple different angled lenses for the LEDs so you can hang the fixture higher or lower as needed to suit your tank and also give better penetration if required. (maybe this could be an "extra" to buy to keep costs low?) -Splash guard over the LEDs would probably be a good idea for most people. (another extra) I will think some more and if anything comes to mind I'll post again.

Well, glad i didn't try the strip LEDs too. I was looking at videos about it... I've also been looking at getting individual chips. This might be what i'm going with if i can't find anything good. For the LED floodlights, do you have one which you have used and would recommend? Nah. I've bought a few off ebay and they're okay. Nothing great. I wouldn't really recommend them because they won't make your tank look nice but the light itself is relatively powerful for the price. I've had about a 40% failure rate in the first year, but they're pretty cheap so expectations have to be low haha. The ones I have look like this:

LED floodlights on ebay work decently. They don't LOOK nice though but they'll grow relatively undemanding plants fine. 10W would be fine on a nano probably.

Aren't you afraid that air will build up at the highest point in the hose? That's what tends to happen and over a long enough period of time the siphon will sometimes break. Sometimes people put in a powerhead or something to turn on for 1 min every 6 hours or something like that just to blow any air build up out.

How do you ensure that your overflow box hose stays primed?

That stand is awesome! Could you tell us (or show us?) how you've set up your drip system?

I have a few tanks/pieces of glass kicking around that could definitely use this treatment. Thanks for the idea lol