knightmarc Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 Been looking at DIY posts on the net for LED lighting as wanting to make my AR380 Marine and came across this site, I know CREE LED's are one brand normally suggested so are ethier of these premade strips suitable? http://www.superlight.co.nz/FWS/modules ... .php?id=22 or http://www.superlight.co.nz/FWS/modules ... .php?id=18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaNs Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 Try www.besthongkong.com also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 You'll only need to upgrade your lighting if you're wanting a reef. But you'll need probably something like 10 of those to get enough light for a reef. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 The colour (kelvin) of those LED's is a bit low as well, for marine you want to looking for 10'000k or higher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightmarc Posted May 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 currently the AR380 has only got one 10watt standard flourescent, it doesn't have the PL tube that the newer ones have. Don't know how much of a difference there is. What I'd like to have in it is a pair of clowns, a small goby and maybe some kind of shrimp. If some low light corals will work with it then great but I'm not brothered if its fish only with coral rock. I want to keep the current hood and mount the new LEDs in it and the less soldering and wiring up the better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 currently the AR380 has only got one 10watt standard flourescent, it doesn't have the PL tube that the newer ones have. Don't know how much of a difference there is. What I'd like to have in it is a pair of clowns, a small goby and maybe some kind of shrimp. If some low light corals will work with it then great but I'm not brothered if its fish only with coral rock. I want to keep the current hood and mount the new LEDs in it and the less soldering and wiring up the better Then you have no need for upgraded lighting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breakaway Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 Agree with Ira - I looked into this extensively a while back. If you only want a FOWLR (fish only with live rock) setup, then just buy the "marine" tube to fit your AR380 (should be available from the LFS) and it'll be enough to sustain some low light mushrooms and be plenty of light for clown fish. I'm not sure about fitting 2 clown fish into 40L of water though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 Agree with Ira - I looked into this extensively a while back. If you only want a FOWLR (fish only with live rock) setup, then just buy the "marine" tube to fit your AR380 (should be available from the LFS) and it'll be enough to sustain some low light mushrooms and be plenty of light for clown fish. I'm not sure about fitting 2 clown fish into 40L of water though. You don't really even need to that unless you want to. The fish don't care if you spend $40 on marine tube from the LFS or $5 on a daylight tube from Mitre10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 if you did want to have a nano reef you could buy a pl fitting you could fit a 36w bulb in there and get a 14k one or a split 10k/actinic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagonman Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 subscribed to keep track of this topic, i have also been thinking of trying a marine setup on my spare ar380. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreadbunny Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 I have added one of those blue flexistrips in my AR380 for night lights, thats all they're good for really. I also took out the stock 11w PL bulb and wired up 2 x 18w PLs, its a tight fit but it does the job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightmarc Posted May 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 Thinking I'll go the PL route with a AQUA ONE PL TUBE 24W TRIPHOSPHOR 7100K / BLUE 12000K http://www.petdoor.co.nz/cart_product24 ... E%2012000K Where can I get the fitting from? Bunnings? Google is failing me for once Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted May 10, 2010 Report Share Posted May 10, 2010 more likely to find it at a specialist electrical supplier try find an osram QT-ECO 1x18-24 230/240 s this is an easy to wire electronic ballast that can run 18 or 24w pl tubes the s on the end is important it stands for short rather than long which is twice the size. you will also need an end cap for the tube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepsound Posted May 11, 2010 Report Share Posted May 11, 2010 I'm not sure about fitting 2 clown fish into 40L of water though. Yep. A pair of clowns need 100L... About LED, they don't give the spectrum range on the website :-? For low light coral, as discosomas, may be it will be ok with 10-15w leds. It depends on which depth you'll fix your corals. But you must check the spectrum range and care about the heat dissipation under the hood. 6500 K full spectrum light could be OK for some soft corals. I raised discosomas, zoanthus and parazoanthus with. But there's an absorption peak for the chlorophyll b in the blue (around 430 nm). So may be blue led are useful too. As for me, I added blue leds to the 6500K bulb i used in my nano. Gobies and shrimps are Ok for this tank Trimma cana Eviota pellucida Stonogobiops yasha who lives in a symbiotic relationship with the Alpheus Randalli shrimp. Stonogobiops dracula Stonogobiops xanthorhinica Stonogobiops nematodes Thor amboinensis (sexy shrimp) Lybia tesselata (boxer crab, very interesting to watch) Gobiodon okinawae etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightmarc Posted May 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Thanks for everyones help, have just won a new 60litre complete with light, filter and stand for $100 on trademe so will now use this for my marine as will not have as much limitations. Will probably gift the AR-380 to my niece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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