please help biocube 14 LED questions, and LED moonlight questions

[MPevine11]

so i have a Biocube 14 project going. i ordered a LED KIT and it should be here Monday or Tuesday

i still would like moonlights could i add this kit and add 3 moonlights to the same heatsink and wire them separately?
Moonlight kit


also with the LED kit i bought, what corals can i keep in my tank?




for fish plan for:
Banded Possum Wrasse? (good idea?)
pair of Snowcasso® Clowns (might just do Picasso) not sure yet......



so far i have ordered/have already:
Rio 800 (211 GPH) - $30 (already installed)
X2 Korila nano 425's (installed)
marco rocks- 15Lbs Signature Fiji- $71 (should be here tuesday/wednesday)
marco rocks- 40Lb Bahama Aragonite sand- $30 (should be here tuesday/wednesday)
Rapid LED- Biocube 14 non Dimmable Retrofit Kit $116 (should be here monday/tuesday)

Coming soon:
*ReefKeeperplus -$250
*Hagen Fluval 50 Watt E-Series - $25
*media basket for 2nd chamber? (maybe a skimmer if i can find a good one that fits)

Some plans

tank so far (hopefully sand and rock tuesday)

 

[MPevine11]

better picture:
can i add moonlights to the same heatsink like this?

 

[Mr.Rodrigo502]

ur getting a reefkeeper right...so why no add the night lights they make for the reefkeeper..they are like $12 jmo.......... thats what i did for my fuge........but if u really want that deep blue night light...go with icecap........makes the tank look so nice at night.......i think skiptons has the size u need...i got mine from there......

 

[MPevine11]

these LEDS say they are for moonlight as well for the driver? what would the diffrence be?

also with the heatsink for the leds im adding i wont have much room for any different type of moonlight.......

 

[JonsReef]

a few comments for you...

-go easy on the moonlights. i had 2x1W LEDs and they created so much light at night that i was starting to grow nuisance algae.
-your tank looks really blue. is that just the moonlights that are on?
-i have had good luck with most types of soft coral under the new LED setup. im a little nervous about LPS/SPS/clams because of the minor fluctuations in water parameters in a tank this small. i think the lighting is more than adequate though. i will let you know when i test it this week using the BRS light meter.
-you should have enough room on the heatsink to wire three (if you want) additional LEDs for moonlights.
-i have the media basket in chamber too and its working out pretty well for me. i removed all the bioballs from chamber 2 and skimmer from chamber 1. water quality seems good. im running filter floss, purigen, and chemi-pure elite in the media basket. thinking of converting one of the chambers to macro algae with a reverse-cycle light (like you have pictured)

 

[MPevine11]

Jonsreef what size biocube do you have?

How do you have the media basket set up?

 

[JonsReef]

i have the 14G biocube.

i have the media basket in chamber 2. top layer has filter floss, middle layer has bag of purigen, bottom layer has a bag of chemipure elite.

im thinking of adding chaeto and an underwater light to chamber 2 and combining the purigen and chemipure at the bottom. or i might add the purigen in place of the sponge between chamber 2 and 3 since im running filter floss pads in the media basket.

 

[MPevine11]

any pictures of your LEDS? (did you get them from rapid led?)

 

[JonsReef]

i can try to take a few pictures.

mine is a DIY setup that i assembled from parts from ledsupply.com and heatsinkusa.com.

at the time (3 months ago), the only available kit was from nanotuners and it was too expensive. had the kit from rapidled.com been available, i probably would have bought it. i think i paid about $250 in parts and materials. im guessing rapidled gets a considerable discount by buying the bulbs, heatsinks, drivers, etc. in bulk.

the only thing that's really different about mine vs the rapidled.com kit is that i am using separate dimmable drivers and power supplies for the white and blue lights. my goal is to use a controller to create a sunrise/sunset effect by fading in the blues then whites in the "morning", and then dimming out the whites then blues in the "evening". i also added a large fan on top of the heatsink that vents directly through a new hole in the top of the lid.

i modeled my build after this one:


http://carolinareefers.com/showthread.php?1209-DIY-Biocube-14-LED-Upgrade

i've never used an integrated power supply/driver like the one from rapidled.com but i think they state that the power supply/driver should not drive less than 8 LEDs, which means that you have to run all 12 off the same driver and cannot separate into 6 whites and 6 blues in separate drivers unless you use a a power supply with a lower voltage rating.

also, it looks like they do not use plastic washers to isolate the screw from the LED module itself. i ditched the screws completely and used thermal adhesive pads, which have worked out great.

overall, the rapidled kit looks pretty decent, especially considering the price tag.