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Offline Warhawk937

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Warhawk’s 75g build
« on: February 24, 2018, 11:30:57 »
Hi all.  I have been out of the hobby for 8 years.  After my tank was nuked I was discouraged and sold off my gear.  I’m ready to fire up another reef.  Here I have just purchased the 75g tank and stand.  Here are pictures of the hood I have just built.  Total investment in the hood 58$. 

Next on the list: 
Paint hood
Build sump. 20 gallon long.
Waiting on bubble magus curve to be delivered before installing baffles

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2018, 11:35:38 »
Looks great!
Welcome back to the hobby

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2018, 15:09:26 »
Very nice woodwork. Did you hinge the top lid? If seems that most reefers are good plumbers and carpenters and electricians.
Jeff

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2018, 19:40:47 »
Nope I made the hood out of bitch it is very light(10lbs) the back is open for feeding. I wanted to keep the profile as low as posible(6”) and I did not want to see light through any cracks I’m pretty anal

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2018, 20:59:18 »
while the paint is drying on the hood I have started making the sump/ refugium. Is a half inch gap sufficient between the baffles?   

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2018, 21:20:07 »
Looks great! Welcome back to hobby

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2018, 22:12:34 »
My first sump.  Please tell me if it is screwed up

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2018, 01:40:20 »
Up date I have purchased all of the components and am finally ready fill the tank.  Please any feed back or criticism will be helpful it will be a lot easy to fix something before I fill the system.

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2018, 12:15:13 »
Looks good.  You have taken your time and put some good thought into your setup.  You probably wont need the filter material between the plates in your sump.  I would hope that the sock will catch anything before it gets in the sump.  Not sure how your lights are being suspended over your tank? I wouldnt want them attached to your hood since you will need to remove the hood anytime you work inside your tank.  What are your plans for the center section of your sump?  I have live rock filling my center section.  I think if I were to rework mine I might put another baffle to make a cheato section for the cheato to tumble. If I didnt have a sulfur reactor for nitrate control I would probably do this.  All in all you have done a very professional looking job!!  Lets see some water.
Jeff

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2018, 13:19:07 »
Thanks for the feedback!   I plan on putting ruble/ Algea  matey some of those porous bricks

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2018, 20:13:27 »
Finally up and running.   

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2018, 20:18:24 »
That’s very clean. Good job. Is that the sump water level with the return pump off?


120 gallon mixed reef.

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2018, 20:50:57 »
Thank you for the complement.  That is the max running level I did the test minutes before that’s why level is so
 High!  The limit switch for ato is about s half inch under that level. 

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2018, 22:31:23 »


Very clean set up! Nicely done.

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2018, 21:47:17 »
The tank is up and running. Plenty of frags to watch grow just needing to source some fish.  And some mor live rock also looking to add some more flow to keep detritus from settling behind the rock.

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2018, 23:09:36 »
All your corals look they are going great.  Do yourself a favor and either qt any of your new fish or buy them from lazy that have already been through qt.
Jeff

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2018, 23:19:47 »
I would love to, but he is going to hold off on ordering fish for awhile.   He got some clowns coming and I believe I’m buying a yellow tang from him.   Question is that leather placement ok?

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2018, 23:37:27 »
I have a brown algae slowly covering everything any ideas on ho to kill it

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #18 on: April 19, 2018, 00:12:17 »
It doesn’t look bad. For sand pink spot goby are great and algae blenny for rock

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #19 on: April 20, 2018, 08:57:05 »
I have a brown algae slowly covering everything any ideas on ho to kill it
reminds me of diatoms

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #20 on: May 06, 2018, 19:57:16 »
Tank has been up for six months

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #21 on: May 06, 2018, 19:58:25 »
Looks great! How did you get rid of the brown algae

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #22 on: May 06, 2018, 21:38:26 »
It was a month long struggle with Dino algae I did a three day black out  followed by a week of nightly water changes with a gravel wand and dramatically reduced light to 6 hours a day so far the corals are bouncing back and I’m ready to stock some more.   

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #23 on: September 16, 2018, 17:37:54 »
Tank has been up for 8 months and I will be upgrading the light to start sps corals.   I have an abundance of blue mushrooms if any body would want to trade for sps frags

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Re: Warhawk’s 75g build
« Reply #24 on: September 23, 2018, 16:38:49 »
I have updated the lights to 3 ocean revive 247artics I had no Idea how bad My bad My cheap[ strip lights were until I viewed them side by side.  My wife would not let me hang them from the ceiling as She liked the canopy I build last year and yes I will let her call the shots on issues like that it helps to get her involved and the more involved/enthusiastic she get the more money I get to spend. I have posted the pics on My canopy build.  I believe the next chuck of money will be on an apex.  wil update

 

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