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Everything running down below..

And the final coral is back in!!

Moving day!

Everything all finished and ready to swap out.. took out every coral and dipped them, had a mild infestation of red flat worms so i also dipped all the live rock with flat worm exit as well.. what a pain that was... but haven't seen any of them since!

Heres the hood all finished with the lights installed

This is a very nice build. I've seen it in person. Scuba Steve is very handy with building stuff.

Thanks Randy!! Hows the reef looking? And i may be hitting you up to radius some screen channelsoon bud.

Nice work! I love the curved canopy. I started with that level of detail in mind' date=' but years later and changed equipment and I've got a snarl of wires again[/quote']

 

I made my last hood a rectangle an never really liked it.. so I set out to have this one match the stand.

Wow very impressive I envy people with a eye for details I try but never works lol

Thanks!! I wanted this build to look like a piece of furniture as its in my living room..

Love all the details on the stand' date=' like the shelves for the DJ and doser. Very nice! Stupidly I filled my tank with water before doing finish work, my poor stand sits half finished today! This is inspiring to get back to it.[/quote']

Thanks!! Thats usually how mine end up too but i actually had worked on this all spring and wasn't in the usual throw it together hurry..

Fabricating the light hood.

Wanted tne top to match the stand

Now for the light canopy... decided to go with Bo's OR T-247 lights... pretty nice light for the price!

Used aluminum channel and brackets to mount to the wood frame. The hood only weight 8 lbs without the light fixtures!

Three smal leeaks at threaded fittings later its good to go!!

Now its time for the leak test!!

Thanks kriz.. not as techy awsum as your last build tho...

Plumbing up the overflow and returns.

Then started fabricating the overflow. Took the ghost style for my patern, with a slim internal overflow bulkheaded to an exteral return with a bean animal. Used 1" sch. 40 with gate vales. Connected to flex hose that terminated in the sump to cpr sock it tubes for adjustable depth on the pipes.

Have most of the equipment mounted up here.. sump with sca-302 skimer, fuge light, jabeo dc 6000 return pump, nts-01 doser, 2-brs deluxe media reactors on a cobalt 1200 pump with valve, the jabeo twins controller with a wp-10 & 25, and a hydor smart level ato connected to a cobalt 400 pump. Still a cple more pieces to add..

Then started mounting all the equipment to the stand. Main power supply is the DJ power strip, secondary is a modified 6 plug powerstrip slaved into the ATC temp controller. This gives me 2 plugs for cooling, 2 plugs for heating, and 2 plugs that have continuouspower supply.

Then fabricated my dosing chamber box. Each chamber holds 1.5 liters

And a 4 gallon ato reservoir.

All out of 1/4" acrylic. You can see the dosing chamber box in the last pic to the right of the sump.

Did a few more small add on's to the stand to accommodate equipment placement.

Then fadricated the sump, has dual 4" filter sock holders, skimmer chamber & baffle, main refugium, wier baffle and sponge rack, bubble trap and return chamber.

Never did take any sump only pics... sheesh!

Then took the factory stand and did a few mods... cut out the rear center brace and added a larger split rear brace that is removable and pocket screwed in. Added a shelf for the jeabo wp converter box on one end and another shelf on the other for a dosing pump.

Also added a drop shelf for a DJ power strip at the top, and a cross brace to mount an ATC temp controller.

Also reinforced the bottom with 3/4" ply ...

Then sealed all joints, and painted with three coats of epoxy paint to seal it.

Then painted the inside cherry red, and the outside black.

Well since the hacker jackwagons wiped out the original thread i guess i will re post it..

Started with a standard reef ready 72 gal. Bowfront.

Cut out the factory overflow, and plugged the overflow and return holes.

Drilled new overflow and returns on the back, 2 - 1" returns and 2-1 1/2" overflow holes...

Then painted back black..

Hey all have a 15 gal. Collumn tank for sale.

The tank is glass, 13" x 13" x 16"

Has top with marine land led.

Custom hob refugium with Rio 400 pump

Aquaticlife 115 mini skimmer that fits in refugium

Led light for refugium

2-Hydor nano 240 powerheads

50 watt heater

And about 10lbs sand.

Lookin to get $100.00 for everything.

I will be heading up to portland in the next week or so an can delv.

When it was set up

Now thats what this whole thing is about!!!

Rick you nailed it!!

I can make you one any size ya want, say a 13" W x 4"D x 12"H for $75.00 with a rio pump same as a cpr.

I can text ya pics if you want. Just send a pm.