- Location
- Yonkers, NY
Hi,
I just put the light to the back of my fuge chamber.
Hopefully it will help the problem I was facing:
My biocube has a middle chamber that can be used as refugium. To allow the light into the chamber the black "tanning" on the back was scratched off. I didn't have a light source behind my tank which I think was the leading cause of my chaeto disintegrating. Since I'm on a constraint budget I decided to do the following DIY.
Parts and Tools:
I just put the light to the back of my fuge chamber.
Hopefully it will help the problem I was facing:
My biocube has a middle chamber that can be used as refugium. To allow the light into the chamber the black "tanning" on the back was scratched off. I didn't have a light source behind my tank which I think was the leading cause of my chaeto disintegrating. Since I'm on a constraint budget I decided to do the following DIY.
Parts and Tools:
- Two tubes of PC lights (those to light up the tower)
- 6V power supply
- 3 aluminum (silver) soda cans
- Paper (masking) tape
- My old vice (clamp?)
- PC empty slot cover (PCesc)
- Electric tape.
- First I attached the lights to the power supply
- Then I attached with electric tape the lights to the PCesc.
- As next step I put the vice behind the tank in front of the fuge
- Nex I attached the PCesc with lights to the vice
- Plugged in all of it in the outlet and voila - there was light!
- Then I prepared the reflector:
- Cut the bottom off one can, top and bottom of another and top of the third one.
- Measured the hight of lights from vice to top.
- Connected cans together with masking tape
- Put the reflector through the can's opening onto the lights.
- Plugged the adapter into the outlet
- Voila - Let there be light!