faerieannette

At this point yes. What are you interested in?

sexy shrimp in a goldfish bowl sound really cute!

Dave your reply is very sweet; it made me tear up. Thank you. I have always wanted a reef since I was a little girl. I spent 4 years getting this tank together. My hope is that it goes to a good home and someday I will be able to start again. thank you

Hello reefers, Due to some really terrible circumstances I am loosing my house and need to sell my tank. I want to make sure it goes to a good home and I need to get as much money as possible for it and all of the equipment because I have many medical bills. Its 120 gallons. It's a great size about 4 feet wide and 2 feet deep. It has dual overflows with pumps and custom LED lights. It is full of well colonized lightweight porous live rock. Eshopps AEO18040 Hp Cone Skimmer for Aquarium Water Pump, 120-Gallon 5 rbtas yellow tang "Sunny" scooter blenny "Benny" PJ cardinal "Hal" royal gramma "Elisabeth" purple dottyback "Violet" 2 blue damsels "Winkin and Blinkin" 1 black and white stripe damsel with a white spot on his forehead "Cyclops" I also have a RODI unit I will include 80lbs of salt I would like to get $2k for everything thanks

Thats awesome! Thanks. :-)

Hi Everyone, I thought I remembered somewhere there was a sales thread to help people that needed to break down their tanks and sell them without being a member? I am going through a terrible divorce, broke my leg, losing my house, need to break down my reef tank. (country music songs are less depressing) Anyway I have spent the last 4 years putting together this tank there is not much in the way of livestock but I want to make sure everything in there goes to a good home. Also I really need money for medical bills. Other than craigslist what are my options? Thanks, Annette

yes it is 4 ft. I am totally down with building somethign from scratch but have no idea where to find good plans and quality cost effective materials. I found thislink which is kinda what I had in mind for the 80 gallon http://reefbuilders.com/2011/07/30/aquarium-lighting-design-led-spotlight-ikea/

what about led like http://store.earthled.com/products/earthled-growled-38 ?

Thanks for the info guys. I noticed people talking about ballasts and I was know nothing about them. :-/ I dont actually have a canopy so would have to build one which is another reason i was considering hanging lights. I was thinking something like this http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202065246/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053 but i see it has a 100 watt max on the bulb. I guess I need to build a hood .

So I have had two tanks set up for a while with live rock and some coraline algae going on and lots of snails and such. A 120 with two maroon clowns and a pj cardinal and a 80 gallon hex with a blenny. I had standard cheep florescent aquarium lights on them they have since burnt out and currently I have no lights on the actual tanks!! On the hex tank I rigged a aquaclear 50 filter to be an hang on refugee. It has a compact florescent light on it with some cheeto and live rock in there. The 120 does have a clamp lamp with a flood light in the sump but there is nothing going on in there so it is kind of silly at the moment. At one point I had some cup coral, some monti cap frags and mushroom coral in the 120 surviving but not really growing with a desk lamp just pointed at them (in addition to the cheepfloresent light) The 120 has glass lids which I like because it keep evaporation down a bit and keeps my cat out of the tank. The 80 does not have a lid. I lost all my invertebrates when our neighborhood lost power for a week after a hurricane. :-( I plan on having a full reef in the 120 at some point but have been severely limited in terms of being able to invest any money in it. It looks quite sad at the moment. I also hope to have the hex tank contain decorative macro algae and seahorses. Sorry I am all over the place here but my question is can I just place any old light fixture say over the hex tank and just put a high wattage metal halide bulb in it? I was thinking of getting a pretty hanging light or pendent light from a thrift store or home depot and wiring it above the tank. Will that work? Will the wattage be too high hence not safe with the fixture? Will it not generate enough light? like I said this tanks ultimate goal will be for macro algae and seahorses. Thanks, Annette

Thanks for the responses guys. The tank is a 4 ft long 120 gallon. I tested with with a "quick dip" ammonia test kit and a API Nitrate test kit. Both levels read at 0. I am using the following filtration system http://www.seasave.net/Invention_of_the_Month.html I have been using tap water aerated and treated with a dechlorinator. I age the salt water overnight for water changes. I do not have a top off system so the salinity has fluctuated in between topping off. The current inhabitants are a sail fin tang "Sunny" and a PJ cardinal "PJ pal Hal" a small piece of cup coral, a cleaner shrimp and a pepetmint shrimp. and an orange and green monti cap frags and a ton of snails. I had the tank set up and cycled for 2 months with live rock. I added a firefish, then 2 weeks later a sailfin tang, and about 2 weeks later and two pj cardinals and the cup coral and everything seemed great. The crushed coral needed to be vacuumed with every water change and was generally pretty nasty. I know my filtration system was pretty inadequate despite being told that it was "idiot proof and basically took care of itself" I thought that switching out the cc for a dsb would give me additional filtration. I removed about a 1/4 of it and added a bag of home depot play sand. That is when i lost the pj cardinal. Their was a sand storm and the tank was milky for days. I decided that i wasn't going to do that again. When it cleared up Pj Pal Hal's friend Sal was gone. everyone else looked fine. After that I did a large water change and decided to use pool filter sand because it would not cloud up like that. I removed almost all the crushed coral and put in the rest of the sand sand all at once. That is when I lost the firefish, Hercules. Even still after that everything seemed fine. I ordered a clean up crew from reef cleaners and some macro algae for my other tank along with some limpits, and conchs I split the crew between my 60 gallon hex and my 120. All of the flordia cerths were dead and so was the conch but they stayed in the tank for a while so i am thinking that that messed up my water quality. I have a ton of dwarf cerths and they ate more then half the macro I bought with them which is a little annoying. Anyway I also got cheato which i put in the sump with a clamp lamp. As far as lighting goes i just have complact floresents and a spot led on the coral frags. The cup coral was doing great until this week when Sunny started looking ratty. The cup coral is starting to loose its color. The monti cap frags i have look good and so does the mushrooms there are a few star polyps which seem content. I got alot of bad/misleading information from the people who I bought the tank form (it is a pretty long story) and I do not want to discuss the details on a public forum. I just want to work towards fixing the situation and prevent further mistakes and deaths. I appreciate the wealth of knowledge here and the the kindness I have already encountered with the members. I am thinking i need to add critters that will actually stir the sand bed . I can see the white sand in the corner under all the tan pool filer sand and it is apparent that there is none of the desired movement i have read that you need in a dsb. I know I need better lights and R/O Rilter for water. I want to eventually redo the sump/fuge and possibly get a skimmer and set up an auto top off system. Unfortunately none of these things are going to happen in the near future. I had no idea what i was gettign into expense wise when i made the switch to salt water. I had previously always had freshwater tanks. thanks again, Annette

So I removed all the crushed coral that came with my tank and put in 4 1/2 inches of pool sand. I paid way too much for a quick crew with reefcleaners. I lost my pj cardnal and my fire fish in the process of switching over to the dsb :-( My tank is looking real ugly with hundreds of dwarf cerths everywhere. My tangs fins started looking ratty this week. Do I need some live sand to seed my dsb? or should i cut my losses and remove it. I am starting to wonder if it was a good idea at all... I put in an algae wafer for my tang (he loves them!) the cerths gathered around it and devoured it. then the sand under it turned black and extended down along the glass to the bottom of the tank. This is the only change i have seen in the sand bed. I haven't seen any of the bubbles that you want to see in a healthy sand bed. I have only had it in about 4 weeks so I know i need to be patient but i am worried because of all the horror stories I have read. I welcome all opinions and advice. also anyone want some dwarf cerths? -Annette

maybe a dumb question but would a piece of rock like this filter the water quality as effectively as solid rock of the same size? or perhaps more?

I have a heat gun i got from the craft store and some cpvc and pvc lying around, even a bag of cement plus some beer. I am sure i can find some string somewhere. I know how i am gonna pend my evening. Sea Biscut needs a new hitching post and feeding station ;-) -Annette

WOW, you guys are really hardcore!