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Post by **NafemanNathan** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:45 pm

Ahhhhh, nerdy guy with the scarf

Post by **Donald** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:55 pm

And a rather fetching Sesame Street Count tshirt

Post by **Lude-dude** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:22 am

I have fish pleco's, & huge kissing gourami

I'm restoring a old arcade machine, as well as some console collection

and i'm slowly trying to do the house as well as the prelude

so that little lot keeps me quite busy and wastes my money

littlefeller · Post by **littlefeller** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:36 pm

there seems to be a few with fish tanks, lets have some pics of all the tank setups

Post by **Lude-dude** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:56 pm

I have pic of first setup:

and today

it needs a clean, but just recovered from a pump failure. I urge people to keep spare seals for your pump, pet shops dont seem to stock them

littlefeller · Post by **littlefeller** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:03 pm

has anyone tried different coloured led lighting in there tanks?

Post by **Donald** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:55 pm

So the fish can feel like they're on acid?

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:51 pm

littlefeller wrote:has anyone tried different coloured led lighting in there tanks?

I considered it, I thought you could highlight features in the tank quite nicely after lights out. Bit expensive though.

Furthest I went experimenting with lights was having a full spectrum T8 tube light in one holder (for the plants) and a moon blue T8 tube in the other holder for night lighting. The blue light burned out pretty quick though so I'm back to two daylight bulbs

littlefeller · Post by **littlefeller** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:25 pm

jjmartin349571 wrote:
littlefeller wrote:has anyone tried different coloured led lighting in there tanks?

I considered it, I thought you could highlight features in the tank quite nicely after lights out. Bit expensive though.

ehhh, if you buy the 3 watt chips theres as cheap as the forementioned. 3watt chips can be brought for around £1 each, you would only need about 5 leds at 3 watt, convinently thats ideal for 12v supply

'92 Si VTEC · Post by **jjmartin349571** » Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:40 pm

Are we both talking about the same thing? I thought you meant underwater submersible LED lights, they look like tiny underwater desk lamps??? My local pets at home do them for £15 a pop. What are these chips??