Hey guys, so I registered on this forum last year but never really got into posting much. I have had this 3G Fluval Edge since last August. I upgraded the lighting with the SuperBrite UltraBrite LED system via Ebay about six months ago and it honestly has worked wonders for growing anything I dropped in the tank. I also upgraded to a higher flowing canister filter since I had read back and forth that the stock Fluval filter was known to crap out after not too long. I traveled a lot for my job, and my (now ex-) girlfriend would look after the tank day to day, feeding and monitoring as I had the lighting set on a schedule since her hours varied at work downtown. She didn't know much more beyond that, so I didn't want to have to worry about a filtration failure while out of town. The canister has done the job just fine.
Here's a list, from what I can recall off the top of my head:
3G Fluval Edge
SuperBrite UltraBrite LED system
Zoomed Canister Filter
50W heater
Nano powerhead (powered down since the crash)
5 lb. of great LR pieces meticulously selected from Marine Scene
Too many frags to list
Cleaner shrimp
Blood/fire shrimp
Tiny false perc
anemone crab
various hermits & nass. snails
electric flame scallop
....I know I'm forgetting more, but this gives you an idea. She was beautiful!!
However, in April, I left for a few days to Florida to spend some time with my grandmother and some family who had come over from England, and to give the ex and I some space since her and I had been arguing quite a bit for the previous couple of weeks. Well, I came home after suggesting to her we take a few days of radio silence and think things out, and found the tank in ABYSMAL condition. I had lost just about everything, and everything that had died (livestock) had been removed, which led me to believe the ex, in one of her fiery Italian rages (she was here on a Visa as I had met her a few years back when backpacking), decided to unplug the tank. For however long, I do not know, but clearly suffocation set in. I was absolutely heartbroken, and that is when the girlfriend became the EX girlfriend, and was asked to immediately move out as I was paying for the apartment and utilities myself, anyway (I've included a before & today pic of the Edge... *cringe*).
There were, however, SOME HOW, a few survivors including my pink goniopora frag, a red hermit and a few electric blue leg hermit crabs, so I've left the tank up and running ever since until I figured out what I wanted to do next. Well that time has come, and as it turns out, I am taking a new job in South Africa (random, yes). I resigned from my last job a few weeks ago, but I have been traveling NONSTOP for the last three weeks so I have had NO time to sell any of my things, so now I am moving it all into storage. But I would rather this tank go to someone who wants to continue it. The glass could obviously use a scraping with a razor and there is still some hair algae that can be plucked off the LR, but other than that things are stabilized and ready to get going again; just needs some love.
So basically, I first off want to sincerely apologize to any and all mods if this is breaking some sort of protocol and I BEG for their understanding, but the main fact is, I would really like to sell this tank off TODAY to someone who will appreciate it and actually knows what they're doing. I don't see any sort of For Sale portion of this forum, so any interested parties, please PM me ASAP so we can figure something out. I'm located in Tyson's Corner. This thread can be taken down tonight; I just want this tank to go to someone to appreciate rather than be shut down and placed in storage.
Thank you and I apologize if this is completely out of line...