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OK. so the cheapie LED panel didn't cut the mustard. It had two problems, chiefly lack of waterprofing but also too uniform a dispersion pattern to have really great ripple effect. The 12" 225 LED panel was also sufficiently large that it precluded being able to segregate the lighting to the...

yeah, so the halogen-ballast-powered-LED-fuge light things didn't work out. One of the downsides of using stuff found around the house is sometimes it expires early. The IKEA 12v power supply that worked so well while I was testing the new rig died sometime in transport to it's new home. So...

Dumped in 10 lbs of GARF Grunge, a "Bag 'O Bugs", a fleet of reef cleaners and five varieties of macro algae. Tank is clearing slowly. LOTS of life in the grunge, interesting things crawling all over the glass, lots of color, tiny stars of some sort - good stuff. And then there...

Rick, 99SF, Tuberider, Thanks for the enthusiasm. That always feels good. Yeah - my back yard isn't either! Oh, wait - I don't have a back yard! Ergo nano aquarium. I did manage to put a found-object fountain in my little apartment garden here on the peninsula, but gee it's nothing...

Hi Richard, Back when I was in high school, thrashing around trying to figure out what to do with my life, my folks suggested starting a pond business. At that time EPDM-lined ponds were _just_ starting to popularize and we lived in an area that could certainly support it. So I did...

As requested in response to my intro in the welcome section, I thought I'd start a thread on my little bedroom nano. History Eons ago, circa 2000-2005, I had a 150 gallon bent glass island tank, bull-nosed at one end. It sat in a glorious natural cherry cabinet and had a few hundred...

This was my first trip to Belize, and I wasn't really expecting the diving to be so spectacular, so I didn't bring an underwater camera. Now that I've seen the reef, this is going to be a yearly trip and I'm already on the hunt for a good housing for one of my cameras. The place is...

Hi All, I just got rehooked on reefs and, of course, found the BAR forums so full of interesting, thoughtful ideas and expertise - generously shared - that I had to join. So thanks in advance from someone who really appreciated finding a local bunch of enthusiasts while jumping back into...