Hey I don't know what your talking about buddy!
Chefs Official Red Sea 750 XXL Build Finally!!!
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Ask your wife to post for you hahahah.
Ok everyone, as promised here is what I like to call the cherry on top! thank you @Doberman13 for coming through for me again and helping me hang this monster and thank you @scottw for the awesome noopsyche hybrids. I appreciate you guys.
That looks great!
Thank you, I appreciate it. The boss lady was happy!!!
No worries! It's always fun to help a friend or new friend set up something for their tank. Glad to help! It looks even better in person. The way the wires disappear into the ceiling looks amazing! Such a clean look.
I wish I could access the area above my lights. I am still hanging on purely drywall alone until I figure something else out. That looks sleek tho!
A 2'×4' piece of 1/2" or 5/8" plywood with molding painted the same as the ceiling would cover two or three ceiling joists depending on orientation and look nice too.
So as you guys know, I finally cut the red sea valve out and installed a spears gate valve. I just couldn't take it anymore! Today I finally shut up and quit crying and placed the order for my top coming from octo aquatics, so hopefully it'll be here next month sometime. Their not cheap but they look good and fits my build.
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I've read a lot of complaints about their valve. I'm about to start a 650P build and I guess I should just bite the bullet and replace it from the start.
I can't Express enough how much I hated it. I just couldn't get it adjusted to save my life. Once you did get it set any flow adjustment would throw it off, such as killing your pumps for feeding or turning them down at night or anything. Just make sure to look at different ways that people have done it, to be honest if your not going custom plumbing this was the easiest way. You get to use their original plumbing lines pipe support and everything. Please don't hesitate to ask if you need any assistance.
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I'm still on the fence about custom plumbing but I still have a ton of blue PVC leftover from my saltwater mixing build.
I'd build my own manifold for sure but there's a configuration issue that would place the fuge in the back of the stand and I don't think I'm ok with that.
The way around this would be to turn the sump around but then I'd have to customize all the plumbing. Plumbing doesn't scare me but when I talked to Red Sea last week, they said their plumbing is made in another country and it can be difficult to find pieces to fit.
Not trying to hijack your thread, just glad to talk to somebody who's recently done plumbing work on one.
Did you find it easy to connect your own plumbing to theirs? Did you gut all their plumbing or are you using a combination of yours/theirs?
Ive done a little of everything you just said!!! I first connected my plumbing to theirs, pain because they use metric and we're standard of course. The way I tied in had my plumbing hanging too low, so I scraped it. I will pm you where I cut it, but here's a link for the guy I found it on.
www.reef2reef.com
Red Sea Reefer 750 XXL Valve Replacement Tutorial
For those of you who hate the standard valve that comes with your reefer, I found a good way to replace it with a spears gate valve. Basically all you need to do is cut the old valve off at the spot in the image and sand the remaining ring with 60 grit sandpaper until it fits in a 1” slip union...
www.reef2reef.com
I guess it's time for the next step everyone, now that all the lights are posted. Time to start on my little old frag tank, 24x24x16. Im going to pick up a noopsyche k7 for it, I actually like them. The plan is really starting to come together! Enjoy
Where did you pick up that frag tank? I want to do a small lagoon. But I don't know if boss lady will approve. Lol
From @scottw, he had an extra laying in the garage! I was thinking about getting a waterbox cube 20, but he had this one it's pretty sweet. 3/4 inch polished and rounded acrylic and the size was perfect. My wife was skeptical at first until she saw it set up, she just asked is there anything else coming in here! No boss!
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That tank was custom built for shows. I didn’t think about lifting it and shipping it lol. It was about $150 in shipping so yeah. 2 same size with paper thin acrylic will be used hahaha.
you got a hell of a setup bro!!
