Fully Stocked 34g Red Sea Max FS

[chrisstie]

Unfortunately in these tough times I'm still job hunting, possibly moving to find work and therefore would like one less tank to take care of. I'm keeping my 55g going for as long as I can unless I move, but selling this great nano tank will make a huge difference to me right now.

I'm asking $1500 OBO for the following:

Up for sale is 1 used Red Sea Max 34g Nano tank. I bought this in July 2007 from SITC. It is an all-in-one tank and a breeze to take care of. The tank came with lights in an easy flip-back hood, protein skimmer, 2 pumps, heater, and everything is built in to a little switch console on the side so there's only one visable wire to plug into the wall. I have however added a Koralia 1 to help with flow which will be included.

It comes with a sleek black stand built to go with the tank also by Red Sea.

Since this is fully stocked you will need to pickup at my house. Off the top of my head my livestock list includes:

Fish
1 ORA blobbie true perc
1 ORA black and white oscellaris
2 paired YWG that live together with a pistol shrimp
1 bi color blenny
1 cherub pygmy angel
1 green clown goby

Corals
1 rainbow acan frag
1 austrailian green duncan colony
1 yellow duncan colony
1 Orange/Blue Lobo
1 Blue Lobo
1 red cyphastrea colony
30+ AoG Pallys
Several Pink pallys
3 Green BTA with orange tips
several green with orange mushrooms
1 poofy Red with Green center Blastomussa
1 small frogspawn colony
large area mat of green star polyps (growing up the corner of the tank)
bits of kenya tree
2 rainbow yumas

35+ lbs of rock
2" sandbed

Pics:

Here's a shot of when I first set up in 2007 you can see how much bigger of a nano it is compared to a 12g Aquapod

I will not part out at this time, thank you.

 

[Pacific Reefs]

Nice setup! Sorry to see it go. Good luck with the sale

 

[paytonv]

corals

corals

i am interested in buying some of your corals if you are willing to sell seperately. let me know if its a possibility.

payton

 

[chrisstie]

Sorry for now looking to sell the entire tank it will making moving SO much easier. I've put some corals from this tank up for sale before and no one nibbled

 

[chrisstie]

I'll also throw in a brand new, never used, still in the box tunze osmolator (auto topoff system).

 

[chrisstie]

One last time to sweeten the deal, I'll throw in a 70 W Viper metal halide clamp on light you can use instead of the hood if you prefer MH lighting. It was only used 2 weeks while I needed a temp lighting system.

 

[bsagecko]

Let me know if you part out......

Thanks
Zack

 

[chrisstie]

Whole package price drop to $1300 and no sorry not parting out. If I do, it'll be a totally separate post.

I also want to say thank you for the kind tells people have sent me. It seems we're all sharing on some level some worry, change in spending, fear of job loss or trouble finding jobs. Thank you again and I wish all the best for you and your families as well. We will get through this. My family always says "This too, shall pass."

 

[dugg]

The biggest thing wrong with the economy right now is FEAR. If everyone would just stop being worried about how bad things are going to get and get back to living thier lives, the economy would bounce right back. The more we all stash our money up for hard times the worse times will get. If the economy is gonna get better we have to spend money so companies have work and products to produce and sell. Sorry to hear about your current situation, but we all just need to relax and things will get better a lot faster.
In the last 3 weeks i have had 350 ft of wood fence built, 2 trees cut down, a new heatpump installed, and contracted for a new solar hot water system, and am in the proccess of contracting 2000sqft of solar panel to be installed on my roof. That is the kind of stuff that puts people back to work and food on the table, not stuffing every dime you can get your hands on in a sock drawer and hiding in a corner waiting on the world to end. If it all does go to crap, Visa and Mastercard won't be to happy with me, but that's the chance they take lol. I know right around the corner from me they are building a condominium complex that looks to have at least 300 units, and they are putting in restuarants and strip malls faster then you can keep track of where things are, so someone is working.

Not trying to make light of your situation at all, just saying that all we have to fear is fear it's self. Hang in there. It will get better sooner than later.

 

[chrisstie]

It's nice that you are in a situation to do that. Unfortunately for young people starting out and doing everything right, they don't have the nestegg people with more time and experience have. I've been hunting for a job before i graduated in May 08. If it weren't for being married I'd be living with my parents right now and not owning a house and not paying a mortgage. Unfortunately even if people went out spending it wouldn't fix the housing market which in turn affects banks and in turn affects the economy of the world.

Yes people who have money need to get out and spend it but those of us who don't need to save it.

I'm trying to move to a place that has more jobs that I meet the qualifications to do but its pretty tight to do on a single person budget whose job may be in danger. When people are losing their jobs left and right they can't just go out and spend.

Sooooooo fortunately for me I graduated without any student loans because I worked to pay my way through college. I'm hoping this tank will sell so I can finish paying off the rest of my credit card and have one less thing to worry about.

 

[dugg]

I'm not rich or have any nest egg to spend, and if you saw my bills you would faint lol, but until people quit all the worry and get out there and spend what they can, the job losses will just continue to get worse. If people don't buy, companies can't produce and people lose thier jobs. The problem with the housing market is idiots that bought $300k homes on a $100k budget that thought that 5 years of intrest only would last forever and prices would continue to rise forever. Those people should lose thier buts instead of the rest of us bailing them out. Also it was greedy builders building hommes like bees in a hive because they had crooked bankers willing to screw people into intrest only and variable rate mortgages they couldn't afford. It will straighten out quicker then you think. Home prices have already fallen back to reasonable, and it will all work it's self out now that the banks are getting what they deserve for doing what they did. Yes, lots of people will lose thier homes, but those people are the ones that went out and bought $300k homes that were in reality only $150k homes thinking the prices would just keep on rising. I bought my house in March 2004 for $85k, in May of 2004 it shot up to $165k, 2 years ago i had an offer for $225k, now it is back down to $100k where it belongs. The economy runs in cycles, and thing will get better once again. I have no sympathy at all for those people that bought wayyyy beyond thier means and are now losing thier big expensive homes. They are just getting what they deserve like a poker player that bets everything he has on a pair of aces only to find out that the guy next to him has 3 deuces. The more we bail those people out, the worse things will get for everyone. Would it be ok if the guy with the pair of aces went to the counter and said (hey i bet on a stupid hand and lost all my money, I would like my money back please) ?

Not trying at all to make light of your situation, but don't let it worry you to death and hang in there. Things will get better pretty soon. Depending on what you went to school for, you should be ok when it does. If things don't improve in your field, go into the medical field. It can be done it small steps, and people get sick regardless of the economy. My wife took a 3 month coarse for CNA and got a job in one day. She worked that for a year and is now in LPN school for 1 year. She already has standing offers at $20+ an hour, and doesn't even get out of school for 4 more months. She will do that for a year or so, then one more year of school and she will have an RN license. Then she will be making $40 to $60 an hour and have tons of jobs at her feet. She doesn't even have a highschool diploma, just a G.E.D. and determination. I have been disabled since i was 19. Have you seen what social security disabilty pays lately lol? Trust me i am nothing like rich, or have a nest egg. I just live within my means and be happy with what i have. The money i have dumped into the economy lately has been to do my part to help keep people working, and was all done on credit that i will be able to pay back when my wife goes back to work. If i can't pay it back i don't expect anyone to bail me out. I will just take my lumps and move on. I grew up on welfare and foodstamps, and i did everything on my own from there. It just takes some common sence and determination. I remember well spending my $1 foodstamp on lunch every day while my friends had pockets full of money.

 

[chrisstie]

I know you mean well dugg and I appreciate it but I think you're just missing out on the fact that there are some people who have done all the right things and weren't irresponsible (unfortunately many were irresponsible) and are still facing extreme hardship right now.

Its also a lot easier to tell someone you dont know very well to go into one of those fields that is always hiring. Unfortunately I spent 7 years getting my B.S. in Computer engineering. I came with some scholarship and worked so I'd come out of it without student loans. It slowed me down a little, but I expect a really decent starting salary. In that time I also discovered my passion for the reef hobby and nature in general so I plan to move to Seattle.

Whether I can find relocation through a company or at least just get hired and slap the move on a credit card, I can and will. There are wayyyy more jobs out there and a much wider variety of jobs that I can apply my skills to there. They are also much better about communicating about those jobs. I have spent just about a year searching in florida and had 2 phone calls. One didnt like my GPA, and another was great until the company had layoffs. Not a peep from anyone down here between job faires, networking, by now probably 300+ resume submissions. I've already had fantastic communication with companies in the pacific northwest and I kind of feel my heartstrings being tugged there.

In the meantime, though, to pay off what little is left on my credit card and have one less tank to move to Seattle would be dreamy

 

[Bdawgfl]

Well said Dugg. A bad economy is extremely hard to deal with when it hits your home without a doubt, but at the same time, I tend to view it as a part of the evolutionary process. I guarantee the people that are dealing with it right now are learning very valuable coping skills that otherwise would not have developed. Also a bailout is contrary to the evolutionary process. It is the equivalent of allowing the dinosaurs to continue despite being poorly suited for the changing world. This does not mean that I think people should die because of bad decisions, but it does mean I think they do not adapt and thus teach the wrong lessons to future generations. It can not be assumed that a big ticket government bailout in future bad economies (guaranteed sooner or later it will be worse). Christie, I feel bad for your situation and wish you luck. Hopefully, when this is over you will be able to look back at how you adapted to the adversity and rose passed it and raise you children with insight about how to deal with it.
It is just economic Darwinism.

 

[chrisstie]

You know Bdawg I have to agree with you. I think we're going to see a generation up and coming that isn't as entitled as the young ones seem to be now. I also think that if companies make poor decisions, no matter how large they are, if they dig their grave they should have to sleep in it.

Thank you again for the kind words. There's a term in our family called a Plugger. I think it came from a sunday comic- if you get knocked down you just get back up again and keep going. Tenacity and resilience are very good qualities to have about now. I just hope we see smarter decisions being made by everyone after this.

 

[dugg]

I agree with you that the computer field here in Florida sucks. A friend of mine that lives in Port Richey has his BA in computer security and web developement and is working a Kohl's stocking shelves. There just isn't that much here in that field. I wish you all the luck in the world in your future, and hope that your degree pays off for you. I have done a lot of traveling in my life, and i would strongly urge you to go see Seattle before you move there. Norther California is a much nicer place with far more of what you are looking for and far less drug culture to raise your kids in the future. OKlahoma is also a nice place to live and raise kids, and has lots of work in that field. That is where i was raised, and raised my first round of kids, and it is a really good place to live believe it or not. I just couldn't take the cold winters any more, so i moved here. Oklahoma has the best nicest people you will ever find. I graduated 2 son's from school there. Both graduated Validictorian's in thier class. One is now a nurse here, and the other a crack head. He chose the wrong friends when we moved here and was sucking on a crack pipe and making babies like wild fire 30 days after we moved to Florida. He is now in south Texas wishing he had listened to dear old Dad because he has 3 felony warrants here in Florida and can never return unless he wants to spend some serious time in prison. I personally hope he stays in Texas.

If you notice in my first post where i talked about the money i have pumped into the economy lately trying to do my part, all but the fence will pay for it's self over time, and help our enviroment and our economy by using less fossil fuels. The only money i have spent that doesn't pay me back directly is the fencing, and that was to seperate me from my nieghbors that are dealing with the bad economy by selling more drugs then Wallgreen's, and i don't care to have my kids exposed to them or thier drug trafficing. They will get what is coming to them eventually, but in the mean time, i chose to keep my kids away from it and not expose them to what is going on there. I'm a live and let live kind of guy, so i don't call and turn them in, even though i am good friends with several Lake County Deputies, but i can keep it away from my family.

Good Luck in whatever and where ever you end up.

 

[dugg]

Chrisstie, if you want to go to the pacific northwest, look into Sacramento. Stay away from the Sanfransisco area. There is a lot of computer related jobs in Sacramento, and is a very nice place to live. The coastal areas of California, Washington, and Oregon are full of drug culture and extremely rude hatefull people. I have an Uncle that has lived in Sacramento for 40+ years and swears it's the best place on earth. He is also in the computer field and makes very good money.

 

[keithntracy]

"She will do that for a year or so, then one more year of school and she will have an RN license. Then she will be making $40 to $60 an hour and have tons of jobs at her feet. "

I would really love to know where these jobs are. I just graduated with my RN and have been an LPN for 17 years. I have been job hunting for 3 months and no where in Orlando are there jobs at that rate. You would be shocked to hear what the hospitals are paying new graduates. I do agree with you in the fact that there are tons of jobs out there for us, just not at that rate. Sorry to burst your bubble.

 

[dugg]

You need to check into being a bailor nurse. That is working only Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. You have to work every weekend, but it pays that kind of money, and there is a huge need for the positions. Also you can sign up as a traveling nurse after one year experience, and limit you availability to say 50 miles from your home and get that rate. My son is already an RN, and works as a bailor nurse. He is in his first year out of school and makes $60 an hr. with 3 twelve hr shifts per week. If you only look at regular base starting pay as a regular schedualed nurse then no you won't make that knid of money. I believe around $24 to $28 per hr. depending on what hospital you are applying at.

 

[dugg]

Also keithntracy, my son works critical care unit and is on the rapid response team. I think that is why he makes $60. The bailor may only be in the $40 range on a normal unit. Still, $40 an hr. makes working weekends worth it in my book. You can get a lot more done during the week and the beaches aren't near as crowded during the week. The only drawback is that you cannot call in more than i think once or twice a year as a bailor nurse, and no bennefits, but when you get that kind of money, you can afford your own insurance, and with 4 days off every week who cares about vacation time lol.

 

[dugg]

If you ever end up at Florida Waterman Hospital in Tavares on a weekend and code on them ( die ), if you make it and wake up you will meet my son. He will be the big blonde haired guy sitting on top of you doing chest compressions lol.