It was fun, but the cost, (time & monetary), is not justifiable anymore. I am selling the center piece of my downstairs.
I've put $10,000 into this tank since I got it 10 months ago, (I've got the spreadsheet to prove it), and while I enjoyed it, when I look back I can see a lot of better uses for that money. My children deserve that money more than some fish. And the $10,000 does not include energy costs. In my opinion it is simply not acceptable to tell your child they can't sign up for activity X because we don't have the money, when I'm spending 10x that much keeping exotic fish alive and cool.
I am actually kind of excited to exit the hobby as it means I'll have a certain amount of extra money and time every month. Plus I'll be able to leave my house for more than one day.
Heck I could have paid for three nice dive vacations. For the money I could have visited my fish on the reef instead of paying all the money to have them brought to me
. I hope to find them good homes.
I know it's unlikely to find a single person to take the entire thing off my hands, but I do want to hold out as long as possible for that scenario. Parting out just takes a little longer and inevitably I would end up with left overs. I'd rather not split up my fish, they are in top health and are very happy together.
I WILL MISS THE HELL OUT OF THIS HOBBY AND MY PETS ;( Even my wife, my biggest critic, can't believe I want to get out now, "you love your reef tank" she says. If it were affordable I'd make it my life. I think I'll put some of the savings away for a nice dive vacation.
For sale one very happy, established reef tank
So, here's the rundown on the "Gundermatic-10000". http://fmellish.shackspace.com/aquarium
=====================================================
Complete used setup
- 120g acrylic reef ready 4-sided tank with center(island) overflow. 4' x 2' x 2.
- Internal acrylic surfaces have nice scratches near bottom. You can thank Mr. Tiny snail and Mrs. Mag Float. Yep I mag floated the entire thing one night and there was a baby snail in the mag float. I wanted to open my wrists up when I saw the damage. The good news is that the scratches are well defined and only around the bottom 6", I run a shallow bed, by all account, these may not be that visible if you didn a true DSB at 6". The scratches could be buffed out if it mattered. They do not detract from the tank IMO, and none of the casual viewers have ever noticed them. If I end up parting out, you could by the tank dry and then go to town polishing the inside. It has never been buffed before, and other than my usage the tank came to me in pristine condition.
- Tank comes free with coralline algae growing in corners where sides meet!
- Overflow box is 4-sided 6" perimeter for a total overflow surface area of 24".
- All plumbing and electrical implemented around 4-sided design, (nothing visible on any side)
- Custom built Stand and canopy, (I apologize in advance. I'm still learnnig how to use tools). Walnut stain.
- Stand includes, spacious front entrance with no center brace in the way, left wall with 4 gang plates of plugs, 2 gang plates the 7 day digital timers, all gang plates with switches.
- Canopy includes 2 250W Hammy retro kits, (2x ballast, bulb, sockets, reflectors)
- Off the shelf acrylic 29 gallon sump custom modified with baffles, 3 chambers, intake, fuge, return.
- Light built into stand for over sump use for grownig macro algaes
- 3 most excellent Eheim pumps, (1262 skimmer, 1262 chiller, 1260 return)
- 1 most excellent skimmer AquaC EV 180 with jg fitting for connection to reactor. Skimmer box has a small crack in the corner above the water line, but it is airtight. I don't think the crack goes all the way through
- 1 AquaC auto waste collection device 1.5L.
- 1 most excellent Tunze Stream Turbelle pump (6000)
- 1 set of Tunze magnets
- Tunze Single controller
- Tunze photo cell
- Mag float!
- Jager 250 W heater
- 1/4 hp JBJ Arctica chiller. Like new, just bought it new from Marine Depot in June. It's done a great job of keeping my temps frosty.
- Coralife digital termometer w00t!
- Salifert test kits, Copper, pH, Alk, Ca, Ammonia
- Tongs
- ALgae scraper and new blade
- 32oz B-Ionic 2 part, ( I dose this 50ml every other day). Bottles are 2/3 full.
- 3 filter socks
- Phyoplankton!!!!
- 2 canisters of fish food, Formula 1 and Formula (1&2 mixed). Tastes great sprinkled on salad.
- 2.5 160g buckets of IO Reef Crystals
- lots of odd sizes of tubing
- Refractometer
- lots of fish drugs!
- Chip clips?
- 2 bags of NORI! (for when the fish die)
- 2 Small moving boxes full of hobby related junk, (I mean accessories), heaters of various sizes and working states, spare Mag 7, little breeder floaty tank thingy, battery powered siphon, (for when you need to get a siphon started in a really odd place), plastic bag of hosebarb fittings and Eheim nipples. NIPPLES! Free 10" acro colony skeleton, a few pieces of hawaii waterfall base rock, (dry), Boxes for various equipments, Tunze boxes and instructions. (2) Maxi Jet 600s, arcylic covers for tank, Air pumps, etc. tooo much stuff to list. Misc PVC plumbing parts, thermometers, etc, etc.
Take it all and I'll throw in (for no additional charge), a complete 20g long QT setup with all associated equipment.
Now, onto the livestock.
- A few SPS corals, doing great and growing quickly.
- NUmerous soft corals
- 1 6" Derasa clam
- 1 12-16" Long tentacle anemone
- 1 cleaner shrimp
- 8 snails
- 1 Hermit
- 1 Sand sifting star
- 1 fancy brittle star
- 1 Sailfin Tang 4"
- 1 Blue Heppatus Tang 4"
- 1 Onyx Perc 3"
- 1 Black Perc 3"
- 1 six-line wrasse 2"
- 2 Pajama Cardinals 2.5"
- 1 BEAUTIFUL flame angel 3"
- 1 very beautiful large hawaiin feather duster, see macro pics on website from months back.
- Montipora confusa and capricornis
- Green Sinularia, (only green when angry though) Big enough to frag 100 ways and get rich off the frags!!
- Eagle eye Zoanthids, an entire rock full 50+ heads. Maybe even 100 + heads. I've never counted! Not ever.
- Toadstool 4" stalk with 4" wide cap?
- 150-200 lbs live rock 75lbs fiji ultra permium, 75lbs Fiji Buna finger rock
- 100 lbs live sand
- Salt water?
- Salt Creep?
- Green digitada
- 4 head frogspawn
- 4 head hammer
- Ricordia
- 4 head torch
- Ridge coral, large colony, (IMO)
- Various red, gree, and striped mushrooms
- red open brain
- Palythoa, looks like a pillow of @55 holes. What can I say, it was free.
- green open brain
- red open brain
- lots of Kenya tree, (thanks Mike)
- cats paw
- Hydnaphora
- various other leathers
- It's fully stocked with fish and corals and stuff
- green hard thing
- free moltings, if they haven't dissolved by the time you get here.
- Purple mat stuff that has polyps at day time. looks like cousin it during the day.
- PVC Pipe glue and primer, (it's yours!)
- Other various corals I can't remember now.
ITS ALL INCLUDED!
Not sure what yer gettin? Peruse my reef tank blog with pics going back to November when it all started.
http://fmellish.shackspace.com/aquarium (use the dropdown list at the top of each webpage to switch months).
I'm not looking to get all of my $10,000 back, even though I offer healthy specimens of established reef goodness coupled with top of the line equipment.
If anyone would want a pre-established reef tank I would let the whole thing, (everything in this post), go for $3,000.
At minimum you could break it down and sell the parts. The chiller was $835, and the Eheims were about $400 total, the Skimmer was close to $400 if I remember correctly, the Tunze with controller and magnets was close to $300 I think. The rock + sand was over $700 and the MH lighting was over $300. Not to mention the tons of money I've spent on fish and coral. And of course the tank cost me $900 to purchase initially.
I'm not entirely motivated since I love my tank. If I'm out of my mind asking for that much, then I guess i'm not ready to say goodbye to my baby yet.
I'm interested in the initial response I get, positive or negative.
Cheers
Josh
I've put $10,000 into this tank since I got it 10 months ago, (I've got the spreadsheet to prove it), and while I enjoyed it, when I look back I can see a lot of better uses for that money. My children deserve that money more than some fish. And the $10,000 does not include energy costs. In my opinion it is simply not acceptable to tell your child they can't sign up for activity X because we don't have the money, when I'm spending 10x that much keeping exotic fish alive and cool.
I am actually kind of excited to exit the hobby as it means I'll have a certain amount of extra money and time every month. Plus I'll be able to leave my house for more than one day.
Heck I could have paid for three nice dive vacations. For the money I could have visited my fish on the reef instead of paying all the money to have them brought to me
. I hope to find them good homes.I know it's unlikely to find a single person to take the entire thing off my hands, but I do want to hold out as long as possible for that scenario. Parting out just takes a little longer and inevitably I would end up with left overs. I'd rather not split up my fish, they are in top health and are very happy together.
I WILL MISS THE HELL OUT OF THIS HOBBY AND MY PETS ;( Even my wife, my biggest critic, can't believe I want to get out now, "you love your reef tank" she says. If it were affordable I'd make it my life. I think I'll put some of the savings away for a nice dive vacation.
For sale one very happy, established reef tank
So, here's the rundown on the "Gundermatic-10000". http://fmellish.shackspace.com/aquarium
=====================================================
Complete used setup
- 120g acrylic reef ready 4-sided tank with center(island) overflow. 4' x 2' x 2.
- Internal acrylic surfaces have nice scratches near bottom. You can thank Mr. Tiny snail and Mrs. Mag Float. Yep I mag floated the entire thing one night and there was a baby snail in the mag float. I wanted to open my wrists up when I saw the damage. The good news is that the scratches are well defined and only around the bottom 6", I run a shallow bed, by all account, these may not be that visible if you didn a true DSB at 6". The scratches could be buffed out if it mattered. They do not detract from the tank IMO, and none of the casual viewers have ever noticed them. If I end up parting out, you could by the tank dry and then go to town polishing the inside. It has never been buffed before, and other than my usage the tank came to me in pristine condition.
- Tank comes free with coralline algae growing in corners where sides meet!
- Overflow box is 4-sided 6" perimeter for a total overflow surface area of 24".
- All plumbing and electrical implemented around 4-sided design, (nothing visible on any side)
- Custom built Stand and canopy, (I apologize in advance. I'm still learnnig how to use tools). Walnut stain.
- Stand includes, spacious front entrance with no center brace in the way, left wall with 4 gang plates of plugs, 2 gang plates the 7 day digital timers, all gang plates with switches.
- Canopy includes 2 250W Hammy retro kits, (2x ballast, bulb, sockets, reflectors)
- Off the shelf acrylic 29 gallon sump custom modified with baffles, 3 chambers, intake, fuge, return.
- Light built into stand for over sump use for grownig macro algaes
- 3 most excellent Eheim pumps, (1262 skimmer, 1262 chiller, 1260 return)
- 1 most excellent skimmer AquaC EV 180 with jg fitting for connection to reactor. Skimmer box has a small crack in the corner above the water line, but it is airtight. I don't think the crack goes all the way through
- 1 AquaC auto waste collection device 1.5L.
- 1 most excellent Tunze Stream Turbelle pump (6000)
- 1 set of Tunze magnets
- Tunze Single controller
- Tunze photo cell
- Mag float!
- Jager 250 W heater
- 1/4 hp JBJ Arctica chiller. Like new, just bought it new from Marine Depot in June. It's done a great job of keeping my temps frosty.
- Coralife digital termometer w00t!
- Salifert test kits, Copper, pH, Alk, Ca, Ammonia
- Tongs
- ALgae scraper and new blade
- 32oz B-Ionic 2 part, ( I dose this 50ml every other day). Bottles are 2/3 full.
- 3 filter socks
- Phyoplankton!!!!
- 2 canisters of fish food, Formula 1 and Formula (1&2 mixed). Tastes great sprinkled on salad.
- 2.5 160g buckets of IO Reef Crystals
- lots of odd sizes of tubing
- Refractometer
- lots of fish drugs!
- Chip clips?
- 2 bags of NORI! (for when the fish die)
- 2 Small moving boxes full of hobby related junk, (I mean accessories), heaters of various sizes and working states, spare Mag 7, little breeder floaty tank thingy, battery powered siphon, (for when you need to get a siphon started in a really odd place), plastic bag of hosebarb fittings and Eheim nipples. NIPPLES! Free 10" acro colony skeleton, a few pieces of hawaii waterfall base rock, (dry), Boxes for various equipments, Tunze boxes and instructions. (2) Maxi Jet 600s, arcylic covers for tank, Air pumps, etc. tooo much stuff to list. Misc PVC plumbing parts, thermometers, etc, etc.
Take it all and I'll throw in (for no additional charge), a complete 20g long QT setup with all associated equipment.
Now, onto the livestock.
- A few SPS corals, doing great and growing quickly.
- NUmerous soft corals
- 1 6" Derasa clam
- 1 12-16" Long tentacle anemone
- 1 cleaner shrimp
- 8 snails
- 1 Hermit
- 1 Sand sifting star
- 1 fancy brittle star
- 1 Sailfin Tang 4"
- 1 Blue Heppatus Tang 4"
- 1 Onyx Perc 3"
- 1 Black Perc 3"
- 1 six-line wrasse 2"
- 2 Pajama Cardinals 2.5"
- 1 BEAUTIFUL flame angel 3"
- 1 very beautiful large hawaiin feather duster, see macro pics on website from months back.
- Montipora confusa and capricornis
- Green Sinularia, (only green when angry though) Big enough to frag 100 ways and get rich off the frags!!
- Eagle eye Zoanthids, an entire rock full 50+ heads. Maybe even 100 + heads. I've never counted! Not ever.
- Toadstool 4" stalk with 4" wide cap?
- 150-200 lbs live rock 75lbs fiji ultra permium, 75lbs Fiji Buna finger rock
- 100 lbs live sand
- Salt water?
- Salt Creep?
- Green digitada
- 4 head frogspawn
- 4 head hammer
- Ricordia
- 4 head torch
- Ridge coral, large colony, (IMO)
- Various red, gree, and striped mushrooms
- red open brain
- Palythoa, looks like a pillow of @55 holes. What can I say, it was free.
- green open brain
- red open brain
- lots of Kenya tree, (thanks Mike)
- cats paw
- Hydnaphora
- various other leathers
- It's fully stocked with fish and corals and stuff
- green hard thing
- free moltings, if they haven't dissolved by the time you get here.
- Purple mat stuff that has polyps at day time. looks like cousin it during the day.
- PVC Pipe glue and primer, (it's yours!)
- Other various corals I can't remember now.
ITS ALL INCLUDED!
Not sure what yer gettin? Peruse my reef tank blog with pics going back to November when it all started.
http://fmellish.shackspace.com/aquarium (use the dropdown list at the top of each webpage to switch months).
I'm not looking to get all of my $10,000 back, even though I offer healthy specimens of established reef goodness coupled with top of the line equipment.
If anyone would want a pre-established reef tank I would let the whole thing, (everything in this post), go for $3,000.
At minimum you could break it down and sell the parts. The chiller was $835, and the Eheims were about $400 total, the Skimmer was close to $400 if I remember correctly, the Tunze with controller and magnets was close to $300 I think. The rock + sand was over $700 and the MH lighting was over $300. Not to mention the tons of money I've spent on fish and coral. And of course the tank cost me $900 to purchase initially.
I'm not entirely motivated since I love my tank. If I'm out of my mind asking for that much, then I guess i'm not ready to say goodbye to my baby yet.
I'm interested in the initial response I get, positive or negative.
Cheers
Josh
