Sad day--I'm pulling the plug

tyler91913

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Well, life has conspired against me and I'm going to have to sell my tank. I'm not done with this hobby for ever, but I need to be done for now.

I'd prefer to sell this as a complete package, but will start parting out next week if there are no takers this weekend. I'd like to see $1800 OBO for the package without the LEDs or $2500 with them. But I'm open to offers.

Here's the full disclosure: if you buy this as a package, you'll want a new stand and a new skimmer pump. The stand is rotting at one corner and needs to be replaced, and the skimmer pump runs but it shocked me when I last had it turned on. The tank has been filtering with an Algal Turf Scrubber for the last month. This has worked really well (Nitrates at or close to 0), but ATS's are not for everybody, I know.

The actual tank and the community inside it is in great condition. No pests, no algae in the tank (both before and after implementing the ATS), minimal coraline growth on the tank bottom and rear wall. Here's what's all included

Livestock:

4-5" hippo tang
4" yellow tang
a pair of 3" false clowns
2" six line wrasse
a large cleaner shrimp
lots of snails and hermits

about 100 lbs. of live rock, most of it nicely encrusted with coralline and corals.

Corals:

an orangey-purple chalice with yellow spots, about 2"x4"
2 big show pieces of monti cap--one red, one green, each about 10"
2 or three smaller monti caps--green with purple polyps
a little colony of pale orange/purple montipora digita
a milli
an awesome 3" clump of birdsnest--green with purple polyps (one of my favorites)
a little colony (12 polyps?) of green moon palys
6 or 7 varieties of zoanthids (nothing too rare), including two ~50 polyp colonies.
a dozen or so green ricordia mushrooms
a dozen or so green hairy mushrooms
a dozen or so green trumpet mushrooms
a dozen or so mouths of green and purple hammer corals
2 or 3 mouths of green hammer
8 or so mouths of green and purple frogspawn
xenia (not the pulsing hand kind)

probably some more stuff in there I'm forgetting.

Equipment:

48" Coralife Aqualight Pro lighting fixture and ballasts - 2x250watt metal halide + compact flourescent actinics + LED moonlights (http://www.aquacon.com/CoralifeAqualightPro.html)
I also have a pair of AI Sol Super Blues--i'd be willing to sell as a package with or without these
Digital Aquatics ReefKeeper aquarium controller (1st generation, but runs like a champ)
90 gallon tank
30 gallon sump
10 gallon ATO resevoir
double float-switch auto-top-off (http://autotopoff.com/products/DS1/) with pump
Aqua Euro skimmer (needs new pump)
Algal Turf Scrubber (homemade)
Heater
1/3 horsepower chiller (http://www.tropicalriverandreef.com/tradewind-drop-in-chiller---1-3-hp.html)
Rio return pump
2 Hydor Koralia powerheads
Marine depot refractometer

There's also test kits, 5 gallon buckets, a frag rack, a 32 gallon bucket on a dolly, Dowflake, baking soda, and Magflake (for making 2-part solution), lots of salt (300 gallons worth? reef crystals and instant ocean). Again, there's more that I'm can't think of right now.
 
Interested in: (when/if you part out)

lots of snails and hermits
6 or 7 varieties of zoanthids (nothing too rare), including two ~50 polyp colonies
2 big show pieces of monti cap--one red, one green, each about 10"
 
Sorry for your misfortune. I'm in New Haven every day for work and am interested in coral if you do part out.
 
us this the setup i saw on craigslist and inquired about the 10g and ato, and pending my poker tourny win would buy the while setup? lol did not win...am still interested... and the twopart stuff. i cant pm yet. fam i have to get on hete and post more often!
 
oh man... this is a nice set up ... i saw it the other day when i picked up some Zoa frags. Sorry to see you get out.. (for now)

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if you decide to part out the corals, let me know...
interested in the Zoas, hammer and frogspawn
 
Thanks to everyone for the sympathetic words and the interest in different things. I'll give this until early next week to go as a package, then start parting out. If/when that happens, I'll post a new thread with some suggested prices. In cases where more than one person expresses interest, I'll try to go by the order of PMs received.
 
Tyler - life happens, and hobbies like this are often the first to go. I'm sorry to see you in that valley.

Like others, cannot use that as a package. Please let us k ow if you decide to part out.

Good luck.
 
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