au01st

Well, I added some LED strips I had laying around to my already custom light setup. The units have 3 surface mount LEDs each and there are 2 units total. I think I'm going to add a few single white LEDs too to make it just a bit brighter. I know it's supposed to be "moon" lights, but with the black rocks and black background, it's just not enough to see much. Anyways, this setup didn't cost me anything because I already had the stuff sitting around, including the 12v adapter, lol.

Pics taken with manual exposure of about 6sec, lol.

Steen16

wow nice much better then my home made moonlight!

mine is just a 7w hallway night light in a custom made box with green tint plastic

au01st

Thanks. I actually have another idea. There are LED lights available at places like Autozone and Advance Auto that have 4 individual LEDs in their own weatherproof pods at intervals of about 1ft on a wire. Each pod has it's own backing of 3m tape. I checked last night, and one package cost $9. A package consists of 8 lights on 2 strings (4 on each) and they come in red, blue, green, white, purple, and color changing. I'll probably be picking some up this weekend to see if I can make them work like I want. Then I'll decide if I want to use 4 plus the ones I have or 8 plus the ones I have, and decide if I want blue, white, or a mix. I also have some LED lights that until now, I did not even consider could be used for overhead lighting. 2 48" tubes that can change 7 colors and 2 36" tubes as well. I wonder how well they'd light the tank up? They're also dimmable, so just turn em down for moon lighting. Hmmmmm, I can't believe I just now thought about those (they're up above the bar and provide ambient lighting for parties, lol). Now I have to think of how to design a hood...

Devon

Looks really cool! I bet it's nice to have that on at night.

au01st

Actually, I have to turn my computer monitor off and have it be pitch black in the room, then let my eyes adjust before I can see in the tank, lol. It's actually very dim, and as I said, I needed about a 6sec exposure on the camera to get anything visible...had to break out the tripod for that one, and my girlfriend was like "OMG nerd" lol.