Neal

Thank you to everyone for all of the interest in the tank. It has been sold.

SPS Tank for sale, I am moving to Texas and everything must go. I would like to sell this tank as a whole unit with everything included. I have a number of LE corals for sale as well as fish and a couple of tanks. Everything must be out of the tanks before the tanks can go. There are a lot more corals than what is listed below. ☺ The sell-off will begin tomorrow, Sunday July 24, 2011 between 10:30am until 4pm in Georgetown DC. Please PM me with you selection and plan on picking up tomorrow if possible. HI_RES PICTURES: http://www.flickr.com/photos/65337880@N04/page3/ DSC_5718 by neal.kaye, on Flickr 1. Montipora Setosa Frags from this colony- $25. DSC_5745 by neal.kaye, on Flickr 2. Montipora Setosa mini colony 1.5 inches tall. 3. Blue tipped Acro LE- Show Piece- Frags for $25 I happened to be at Dr. Macs when they received a shipment. The shipment included 2 large colonies of this coral. I scooped one up and the owner pulled the other one to use as a mother colony for fragging. Each tip sells for $50. The coral is large enough to frag into a 100 pieces. This one coral alone is worth what I am selling the whole setup for. 4. Purple Deepwater Acro- Frags for $25 5. Huge branching coral. Whole coral for $100 6. Pink and Green Styliophora. Frags for $10 7. Tri-Colored Viladia Medium, this is attached to a large rock with other SPS growing on it. Yours for $40. 8. Tri-Colored Viladia. Large- $60 9. Large LE Christmas Tree Acro- Frags for $25 10. Sunset Monipora frags- Frags for $5, 10, and $15. (I have lots, I will also leave a very large peice that is growing on the back wall for the person who buys the tank) 11. Multi- Colored Monti on a baseball sized rock. $35 12. 8- Headed Duncan. $80 13. Watermellon Chalice- 5 eyes (See the auction forum) 14. Misc Coral (Purchase upon arrival, dirt cheap) Fish and Invertebrates 1. Maxima Clam- $40 DSC_5742 by neal.kaye, on Flickr 2. Large Green Bubble Tip Anemone with Purple Tips- $40 (Jan) 3. Small Blue Hippo Tang- $35 4. 1Yellow Watchman and Tiger Pistol Shrimp Pair- $45 (Jan) 5. 1 Yellow Watchman (Tri Buri) 6. Pair of blue/green Chromis- $10 (Jan) Tanks and Equipment 1. Solana fish tank, skimmer and stand I will include all of the rock and sand. Most of the rocks have SPS corals growing on them. $350 OBO 1.A Original Solana 150MH light $200 (If you purchase this and the tank combined price of $500!) 2. ICE CAP 250 MH with brand new bulb $250 3. 5 Gallon Tank $7 4. Tunze Nano Stream (Will go to the person who buys the tank) 5. Heater (Will go to the person who buys the tank) http://www.flickr.com/photos/65337880@N04/page3/

SPS Tank for sale, serious inquiries only- $1250 I am moving to Texas and everything must go. I would like to sell this tank as a whole unit with everything included. I have a number of LE corals for sale as well as fish and a couple of tanks. Everything must be out of the tanks before the tanks can go. There are a lot more corals than what is listed below. ☺ Please call my cell to discuss or setup a time to see the tank: 508-801-6325. HI_RES PICTURES: http://www.flickr.com/photos/65337880@N04/page3/ DSC_5718 by neal.kaye, on Flickr 1. Montipora Setosa Colony. DSC_5745 by neal.kaye, on Flickr 2. Montipora Setosa mini colony 1.5 inches tall. 3. Blue tipped Acro LE- Show Piece I happened to be at Dr. Macs when they received a shipment. The shipment included 2 large colonies of this coral. I scooped one up and the owner pulled the other one to use as a mother colony for fragging. Each tip sells for $50. The coral is large enough to frag into a 100 pieces. This one coral alone is worth what I am selling the whole setup for. 4. Purple Deepwater Acro 5. Huge branching coral. 6. Pink and Green Styliophora 7. Tri-Colored Viladia Medium 8. Tri-Colored Viladia. Large 9. Large LE Christmas Tree Acro 10. Sunset Monipora frags 11. Multi- Colored Monti on a baseball sized rock 12. 8- Headed Duncan 13. Watermellon Chalice- 5 eyes Fish and Invertebrates 1. Maxima Clam DSC_5742 by neal.kaye, on Flickr 2. Large Green Bubble Tip Anemone 3. Small Blue Hippo Tang 4. 1Yellow Watchman and Tiger Pistol Shrimp Pair 5. 1 Yellow Watchman 6. 1 Big Sea Hare (Very cool) Tanks and Equipment 1. Solana fish tank, skimmer and stand I will include all of the rock and sand. Most of the rocks have SPS corals growing on them. 2. ICE CAP 250 MH with brand new bulb 3. 5 Gallon Tank $7 4. Tunze Nano Stream 5. Heater http://www.flickr.com/photos/65337880@N04/page3/

In an recent tour of local fish stores in an effort to restock my crashed tank I have the following to report: 1.) Roozens: Tanks are MUCH cleaner now than before - say a year ago. The stock levels where not as overflowing with impressively diverse fish and inverts as usual. However all in all a positive change. Also an unusually large quanitiy of clean-up hermits, crabs and snails which at times there are strangely unavailable. There was a tank of bamboo sharks, as well as, bizzarely, a terrier sized maine lobster. Lots of small Blue Striped tropical lobsters as well. The usually crazy roozens, just a little toned down and less dirty in the tanks. They also had a garibaldi, which must have been a little warm... 2.) Pristine Aquariums in ALX: 1st time there. Not much stock at the moment. Highlights: A tank of Banggai Cradinals, maxi mini anenomes. Large amounts of turbo snails though not much else cleaner wise. Large frag tank in the center. Nice well managed, conveniently located store, decent dry goods. Great freshwater selection, in particular they had a plethora of oscars, and several tanks of angels. 3.) Congressional Aquariums Rockville: Hadn't been here in ages. Fairly diverse, and quality Salt fish, invert selection. highlights were some nice starfish and urchins, a spiny puffer. Prices a bit high though. Livestock all appeared healthy. Coral selection was not large. Freshwater selection is as good as I have seen, near dc, possibly second only too Superpetz in sheer tank numbers. Nice freshwater planted selection also. Beautiful, well stocked dry goods section. 4.) Aquarium One: Seems to have really stepped up their game into the high-end reef arena. Amongst the selection a Platinum clown, paired picasso clowns, two beautiful cherub angels, lotsa firefish, couple of dwarf lions, seahorses, you get the idea. Impressively beautiful coral specimens in a aisle length frag tank, including $250 acan lords etc. Huge amounts of trochus, turban and mexican turbos. they also carry the new aquacultured LR which was coated in corraline. Coral wise the undisputed champ of the 4 stores.

Hello, I have a 34G Solana and have been running on the same RO unit for about 5 years. I have changed all of the filters except for my RO filter. Well finally my TDS meter says it is time for a new one. Also, anyone have a good way of adding Di to my system? Anyone have a good place to purchase either new filters or a whole new system. Here is a link to my current system: http://www.amazon.com/Reverse-Osmosis-Storage-Removes-Fluoride/dp/B002LHDL7E Thanks, Neal

I have been wondering the same thing. I have an SPS dominated tank and i seem to use a ton of Alk. My tank has been up and running for 4-5 years with the same live rock. My calcium is at 430 to 440 and my Mag is in normal parameters. It has always seemed to me that corals suck in more calcium than Alk. Am I wrong? Thanks, Neal

I have an SPS dominated tank. I currently dose Seachem Reef Calcium Advantage twice a week and Seachem Reef Builder twice a week to keep up with the demand. I hate dosing my tank by hand. There has to be a better way. Calcium: 480 Alk: 10 Mag: 1275 - 1300

Is it really necessary to use a Kalk Reactor? If so, can someone please tell me why? I have a few options for top off tanks that I already own. I will be using a Tom's Aquatic to slowly drip any top-off into my tank. 1-2 drips per second. BRS says to add 1 Teaspoon per Gallon of top-off water. I already use a tom's aqautic aqualift to pump my top-off in my tank very slowly. Option 1: 5.5G open top glass aquarium. After all of the research it seems that an open top somehow messes up the mixture. What if I turn on a power head? Option 2: 2.5G Kent Aqua dose closed container. If I use this as my top off tank should I use some sort of power head inside the container? I have also read that dripping into my skimmer may help out in the absorption. Is this true? Any thoughts on pre-mixing kalk with vineger? Since I have a Solana my stand just isn't big enough to have a reactor. Any help figuring this out would be great.

Sounds like the liter meter is the way to go. Thanks for all of the help

I am also thinkg about the litermeter but my worry is that I won't have enough space in my cabinet. I have a very small cabinet and neet to make sure that everything is going to fit.

Hello All, I am trying to setup a dosing system for my tank. Has anyone tried this setup? If so do you like it? Any downfalls? http://www.marinedepot.com/ESV_B_Ionic_Sup...-FIDPET-vi.html thanks, Neal

Just so I get this right- If I use two part it adds the calcium and Alk at the same time?

Great meeting! Thanks to all of the officers for making it happen. Our local vendors really came out on this one. Thanks Aquatic Obsessions for the great new Vortech. Looking forward to stopping by your store this weekend!

Thanks guys.... I am going to go ahead and get the Phoenix.