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    How did you come out of the outage?

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    rules using generator

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    I know Montgomery County has well defined ordinances. A quick google search turns up little for Fairfax.

     

    http://www6.montgomerycountymd.gov/dectmpl.asp?url=/Content/dep/community/generator.asp

     

    Most people think a generator is a generator. They are not. Some are actually quite noisy. All my neighbors have el cheapo ones and they are probably twice as loud as mine. When I goto racetracks, it's common courtesy to shut them off at night so people can sleep, but obviously it's a different situation we are in. But because of that courtesy, I ended up buying a fairly quiet inverter generator. Rated at 58dB @ 7 meters away. Most cheap generators are 75-85dB, so quite a big difference.

    i need aipstasia

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    Be careful... once you introduce aptasia/majanos in your tank, you might very well end up w/ a tank like the one linked above. Part of the reason why I tore down my 125G. I got so darn frustrated w/ the majanos and weeds.

    Getting out of hobby sale

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    Valeria passed on the Banghai Cardinal. Still up for grabs.

     

    Valeria ended up taking the Banghai, yay (and all the ricordias)!

     

    What's left:

    Yellow banded possum wrasse if Evan decides not to take

    Live rock, lots of it.

    Some brown palys

    RedSea Wavemaker

    Large EboJager heater

    Chemicals (new): Calcium, Magnesium, Alk/2part from BRS in powder form

    solar panels

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    this is a very useful site for determining what incentives are out there. We just put a 4.07kW array on our house.

     

    Upfront was $21k. 30% federal, $2500 MD, $5000 county + SRECs and power savings.

    Getting out of hobby sale

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    All livestock sold except:

     

    Live Rock (now free from majanos thanks to some blow torch action. The peppermint shrimp love to feast on roasted Majanos)

    Galexia

    Yellow banded Possum Wrasse

     

    MH lights pending to Hypertech

    Tank/Stand pending to Audible

    T5 lights to fishnreef

    Whole house generator

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    checkout Amazon for Generac whole house generators. They are surprisingly cheap. Also remember that there are permit issues, etc that need to be looked into for install. You have to run a gas line to the generator and your Washington Gas bill wont look pretty if it is on for an extended period of time.

     

    I run a 3500W inverter generator that sees double duty for my track events. It's enough to power everything in the tank but the metal halide lights. Also much quieter than the standard generators my neighbors use.

    Getting out of hobby sale

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    To whomever bought the hammer - would you be willing to break off and sell me 1-3 heads?

     

    Nadir/Nick from fishnreefs picked them up (weds). They are a HUGE colony so Im sure he could break off a few heads out of the like 30-40 from frogspawn and maybe 20-30 from the Hammer.

    Considering buying Live rock with Majanos-input?

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    I agree, unless the rock is really cheap and you are fine letting it dry out first and cycle over I wouldn't get it.

     

    Mine came in off a frag somewhere and they have proliferated. Real annoying when they got into my SPS colonies and started stinging them.

     

    Ive found the other way to kill them is w/ a MAPP torch. So if you buy live rock from me, you can have fun w/ the blowtorch.

    Getting out of hobby sale

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    updated sold items

    Doing my best to list pricing, but Im not sure what some of this is worth so reasonable offers entertained. Ill try to get some pics up soon. DerABT (Evan) was nice enough to come over and snap some pictures for me. I just dont have time to take care of such a large tank anymore. Things are starting to fall into disrepair and before everything dies off, Id like to save the lives of what I can. Here is a shot of the tank when it was doing well:

     

    http://brakeswapraci...nk/IMG_0035.JPG

     

    Livestock/Live rock needs to go before equipment.

     

    125G AGA reef ready tank w/ dual overflows

    125G AGA black stand that has been sprayed with "truck bedliner". Very sturdy

    Both for $400

     

    Bluewave dual 250W MH ballast with individual switches: $150

    (2) 250W Sunlight Supply Reef Optix3 Reflectors: $100 each

    Whole package: $300

     

    I have two separate actinic suppl. systems.

    One Coralife PC retrofit w/ ballasts. It is a 4 bulb setup. all for $50.

    One generic T5 HO setup with dual ballasts and 4 bulb setup. all for $50. SOLD

     

    RedSea Wavemaster Pro: $100

    SeaSwirl: $100

    Bunch of EboJager heaters

     

    Lots of live rock: $3/#

     

    Basketball sized purple tip Frogspawn: $100 SOLD

    Basketball sized purple tip Hammer: $100 SOLD

    Galexia coral: $50

    10+ head Duncan: $50 SOLD

    Orange Ricordias: $5

    Large Scroll Coral: $50

    Orange scholy heads: $20 ea

    Yellow Polyp bunches: $5 ea

     

    Super large Banggai Cardinalfish: $50

    2"ish Hippo Tang: $50 SOLD

    Yellow banded Possum Wrasse: $50

     

    Chemicals:

    BRS two parts new ($50), calcium (one mixed jug, lots of powder left) $10, magnesium new: $10

     

    Ive also got about 10 Rose Bubble Anemones. These will be hard to separate from live rock, so if you buy, preferred method will be with the live rock. I have one growing on a defunct MaxiJet, a couple others on coralline algae that I could scrape. These anemones have been in my tank a few years now and split every few months. $60 each + live rock. There are some pieces of live rock with multiple anemones and I will discount multiples.

    125g Background Color-what do you like/recommend?

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    Sign grade vinyl usually leaves some type of adhesive behind, but maybe not on glass. We used it on painted surfaces and it always left stuff behind. I guess you can use some adhesive remover though.

    I like jasons idea of a strip of painted acrylic that you can paint two different colors and swap, Bc I can change it with a full tank.

     

    I guess it won't matter once the corralline algae covers it all.

     

    Never had an issue on glass. Could also be the quality of vinyl used. If anything is leftover on glass though, a razor with windex makes short work of it.

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