another North Alabama starting a reef

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hell all,
i'm Jesse. i currently have a 37T with a 10 gallon sump. this is my second salt tank. first was 90g FOWLR, i traded down to the 37 because i wanted to start a reef tank, but my house is for sale. i didn't want to stock a 90 gallon just to tear it down and risk loosing livestock when i moved. this way, i can have a small reef, and move everything to a large custom tank when we move, with less rick of killing critters. i'm a huge fan of DIY projects , so my sump is a DIY using a $12 10 gallon tank from WalMart, and a PVC overflow built from Lowes, and i built my own LED moon light from a old cell phone charger and some Radio Shack LED's. enough talk, heres a couple pics. a couple things have changed, so i need to get a new pic. i am no longer using the wet/dry in the pic, i painted the back of the tank back, and it's on a stand instead of my fireplace (don't ask :crossedlips:) i am planning on buying another 40# or LR from a member to finish my LR collecting.
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one under the LED moon light
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Hey Jesse, welcome to R2R!

The tank is looking great! How many watts of LED's do you have over it?
Right now the only thing that is led is the moon light. The moon light is two 3.6 volt 5 watt LEDs. I compared their output to commercial moon light fixtures and the output looks very similar. I believe most of the commercial ones use 3 watt diodes. There looks to be quite a difference between the out of a 3watt and 5 watt.
 
Added ~50 lbs of rock that I got from a member here, got some more hermits, a couple more snails, and bought a leather from a friend of mine.
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