Rise of "The Ghostbox" a Full LED Propagation System presented in HD720!

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  1. Kraylen

    Kraylen Astrea Snail

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    My project I started mid March :)
    YouTube - Rise of "The Ghostbox".... Full LED Propagation System:


    Thanks for checking it out!
     
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  2. Matt Rogers

    Matt Rogers Kingfish

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    Great job. Love the music. What kind of LEDs?
     
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  3. Saltydoggy

    Saltydoggy Astrea Snail

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    Final fantasy 3 music!!! love it!!
     
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  4. crustytheclown

    crustytheclown Eyelash Blennie

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    wow that was amazing! Really like the eeriness!!!
     
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  5. Kraylen

    Kraylen Astrea Snail

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    The light is a single 30w Reef Brite, 48 inch 50/50 bar. I plan on adding and experimenting with the other bars(DL/Blue) when I get some more money. This was fully experimental, but now that I see the LEDs are doing a great job on all types of coral I keep, I will continue to get more of them! :)

    Thanks for checking the vid out guys! :)
     
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  6. jakeh24

    jakeh24 Pajama Cardinal

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    awesome
    from what i have heard leds are great for sps/hard corals
    but they seem to wash out zoas and some softies

    any comments on this yet? or have you just started this?
     
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  7. Kraylen

    Kraylen Astrea Snail

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    Been a week today... everything I have cut, transferred or doctored has done great... the colors are amazing with the 50/50, when I get more bars one of them will be blue so I can change the blue of my tank with a simple turn ;)

    I had a 130 pc/12k PC-R on here for a a couple weeks prior to getting my LED light, and all the zoas/palys, acropora, favia, acan, chalice etc... were brown for the most part. The LEDs of course popped out what color was struggling to come out, but a few days into it, the corals really started to lose the white/brown look completely. A friend of mine's tank recently took a bad fall, so I grabbed a bunch of his chalices and SPS. Everything has healed... chalices are growing rims... acros and montis have bright polyps out...

    I am very impressed so far with as little of light as I expected to get. In reality, I could run this entire prop tank off one of these lights.. provided I built the proper frag racks, and acclimated the corals the right way.... but... I am a fiend for light, and lights with dimmers. I need 3 of them!!!!
     
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  8. yellojello

    yellojello Plankton

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    nice little build... i'm sure you will get the 3 more at baymac! haha
     
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  9. Kraylen

    Kraylen Astrea Snail

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    hahahaha.. Baymac, I hate waiting for excellence.
     
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