Ohio Reef
Reef Discussion => Tank Profiles & Build Threads => Topic started by: Warhawk937 on February 24, 2018, 11:30:57
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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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Looks great!
Welcome back to the hobby
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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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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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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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Looks great! Welcome back to hobby
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My first sump. Please tell me if it is screwed up
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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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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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Thanks for the feedback! I plan on putting ruble/ Algea matey some of those porous bricks
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Finally up and running.
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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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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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Very clean set up! Nicely done.
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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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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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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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I have a brown algae slowly covering everything any ideas on ho to kill it
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It doesn’t look bad. For sand pink spot goby are great and algae blenny for rock
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I have a brown algae slowly covering everything any ideas on ho to kill it
reminds me of diatoms
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Tank has been up for six months
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Looks great! How did you get rid of the brown algae
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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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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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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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It looks good. Another option for the lights is to cut two of the rods so they are straight. Then attach all the lights together in the other direction.
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Thanks for the feedback Brian. love the lights by the way. My ocd got the best of me I could not sleep at night unless the LCD display was facing towards the front.
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Tank has been up for 9 months. Moved to stronger lights with the hope of growing sps corals. Fish stock almost complete and filling in the top shelf with sps frags
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Better full pic
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Looks good Warhawk937 !
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Excellent choice on the orange back fairy wrasse.
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Thanks the light a the fish store did not do it justice I was shocked when I got it home. Beautiful fish. I would like to add some more fairy wrasse but don’t know if they would get bullied. The melanarus doesn’t really mess with it
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Your tank looks great and I love the orange back as well, I don't know how long you have had it but a word of caution. They are jumpers. I know you have the canopy, but how how much space is there in the back. I have a glass top and mine bangs it all the time.
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The tank has now been up for a year. I have learned a lot this year about reef keeping and have all of you to thank.
From entertaining stupid questions you all have answered a million time. From selling me frags cheap/ giving them away as I flirted with the idea jumping in to a mixed reef tank. I will have you all know I have not killed an acro yet( give it time I know. But I would like to thank this club for the advice and friendships made this past year.
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You have come a long way, looking back at first pics to now. Quite the evolution. Looks great!
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Very nice Brandon. Keep up the good work.
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Looks very nice, great job. I would dare to say that no matter how long we are in this hobby, there is no dumb question and learning never stops! To me the people and continued learning make this hobby a great one to be a part of.
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I wish that I had such success after only a year in the hobby!! I would hate to think of how many fish and corals that I have killed over the 30 years in the hobby.
Jeff
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I’ve lost 6 fish to marine velvet and 2 to infections so far and I’m sure they are not the last. I must say the av99 aspera that I bought from you is the best grower I have in the tank. Pm me if you have any other frags/ small colonies you want to sell
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Something to be proud of, right there.
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Looking good!
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after being fed up with the tank, which was over ran with palys and mushrooms. I've decided to rescape. I'm bleaching the comprimised rock in a vat outside and have been playing with the "Life rock" shapes. I have not been disappointed. I will finish the aquascape after the rock has been bleached but here is the before and after so far let me know what you think.
Thanks to jjoose and reeferintraining to answering alot of questions for me over the last couple of weeks. I believe i narrowed my problem down to chemical warefare, toxins being built up from all of the competition. after running copious amounts of carbon the sps polyps started extening.
i had a traditional rock wall. with no flow behind it. ticking time bomb and am switching it out for an open concept. Im glad i did as there was alot of detritus piled up behind the rock.
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Scape looks cool. I wish you luck going forward
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You might be interested in this method for building columns in your tank. I have been using it for years and love its looks. I build a pvc frame with a center post. I then zip tie the rocks to the center post and stack them up into a cool looking column. It the rocks dont have any holes for the zip ties you can always drill a hole in the rock with a masonry bit. I just built this one last night for the back corner of my tank.
Jeff
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that is an amazing idea!!! i spend a long time with epoxy and my skimmer is pretty pissed off tight now. I will definitely try a frame when i add the next bit of rock.
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I like the open look. What are you using to epoxy the rocks? I had tried JB water weld and it didn’t work at all for me.
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Aqua stick is works but messes with the skimmer tunes coral gum is amazing but expensive I used both
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After 6 months of Dino’s low nutrients, tornadoes and a subsequent reset I glad to say that the tank is back to stable!!! The corals are coloring up nicely and starting to grow again I thought 💭 I would post a pic of the tank before the second batch of rock is finish cycling.
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Looks great, nice rock scape
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Looks like the asperara is still doing well
Jeff
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yes I love it. I will never get rid of it. It is my canary in the coal mine I have had for a year and a half now and can tell how my tank is doing by coloration and tissue. I did however break a 3rd of it off when I had to pull all the rock out for a reset. but It is now in its permanent spot for the duration of the tank. cant wait till I add the rest off the rock and fill it with corals.
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corals have colored back up now that the nutrients are in check. I finally picked up some of the more delicate acropora to see how they do in the system.
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top down of my torts
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The torts are beautiful.
Jeff
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Update pre frag swap. Ive been on the brs/ brightwell coral aminos trial program and have noticed a big difference in the health of my corals. Tissue is thicker and more colorful. Seeing better results than when dosing acro power. Dino’s are in check but still there. Nutrients raised and holding at no.10ppm phos..07ppm noticing green algae on top of all my rocks not sure 🤔 if it hair algae that the tangs are keeping in check or turf algae? Birds nest purchased from brs showing stn first time for me. The affected corals we’ll be pulled and inspected/ dipped when I add the new corals from drag swap.
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Av99 asperera
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Top down
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Tank shot
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that frogspawn needs a haircut. :) Everything looking good
Jeff
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Looks great!
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Looking good Brandon!
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posting an update im ~2.5 year into this tank and finally starting to see it mature. I recently had the skimmer over flow with a weeks worth of crap, but had no time for a water change. I slowly brought the nutrient back down and found a sweet spot were over the course ov a couple days my corals uptake shot through the roof. I realized then that the system was two lean on nutrients and have kept them elevated ever since in that area since then. the tank is now starting to blossom.
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side view
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Looks great Brandon.
I'm on my way to the basement to dump my skimmer into the tank. Thanks for the hot tip. :not speak:
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😂. Funny right phos was .14. And nitrates were at 15 I was always trying to keep pho4 at .03 and nitrates at 5ppm. Wasn’t cutting it corals were pale and light was too high.
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The reef looks very healthy. Doing great Brandon! My theory on phosphates is they don't matter, as long as you have enough. No one believes me though.
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I’m a believer
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Colors look much better!
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Pics look great!
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Looking good! Glad you’ve overcome all the obstacles along the way.
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iPhone 11 pics
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Pc rainbow
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Wwc blueberry
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Side shot
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Definitely a lot of niceness happening here!
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Not only is your tank getting better your pictures are as well! Nice job
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thanks bud. one day maybe ;)
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Sorry I didn’t add a full tank shot for my records.
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Show off..... lmao! Gorgeous tank!
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After a huge phosphate spike and instability during the fallout, my reef finally starting to color back up.
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Lookin good. Those acro colonies are sweet, what's the name of the 2nd one?
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Looking great Brandon.
Jeff
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2nd one is a strawberry shortcake
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Very Nice Brandon!
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Dang Brandon! You got skills man. Nice job
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Really nice! I’d like a frag of the strawberry shortcake if you plan to sell.