nsamouroux
Well-known member
I hate to do this after all the time and effort I've sunk into the system, but my wife and I are going to be house hunting in the next year or so and I definitely don't feel like moving this oversized aquarium. As a result I'm getting out of the hobby for a while. I'd prefer to sell the entire setup at one time given the time I have available to work with before any future move, but due to size it's more likely that I'll end up selling it in packages (fish / corals / anemones, then rock / sand, then the tank itself and support equipment). Preference will of course be given to anyone who wants the whole thing, along with a bunch of bonus misc reef support equipment that would otherwise not be sold. I'm looking for $3000 for the entire system plus whatever other miscellaneous items I've got to throw in. At a rough estimate for a split sale I'm looking for $500 for fish / inverts / any remaining corals, $4 per lb for the live rock (sand included if someone buys all the rock), and $1600 for the tank, stand, lights, pumps, skimmer / reactors, and sump / refugium. I figured I would post it here briefly to gauge interest before throwing it open to the hordes on a larger reef hobby site or (grumble) Craigslist. In general a list of the main items off the top of my head is:
FISH
Adult coloration emperor angelfish (about 8")
Purple tang (6")
Yellow tang (6")
Powder brown tang (around 5")
Two blue hippo tangs (6"-8")
Two sailfin tangs (medium around 6" and large about 10")
Mated pair of occellaris clowns (paired for about 4 years, spawning fairly regularly)
Lone wolf occellaris misbarred clown around 2 years old, lives nearby the mated pair peacefully so it's probably still a juvenile.
Adult royal gramma
Adult coral beauty angelfish
Adult flame angelfish
Mandarin dragonet
CORALS / INVERTS - Not much left, I've slowly been giving my SPS / LPS colonies to friends to fill out their tanks.
Green Nepthea coral (around 8" tall) - lone wolf clownfish lives in this
Two red bubble tip anemones (around 10" diameter and a 6" diameter clone / split from the other). The mated clown pair live here.
Random ricordea all over the rocks (grey base, pink eye, green polyps and the some with reverse coloring with green eye and pink polyps).
A couple small / split finger leather corals
A devil's hand leather coral
Bubble coral (around 6" diameter globe when extended)
A couple small to mid-size stony corals (encrusting type surrounding random rocks) that I can't recall the names of.
There's a shortspine urchin in here somewhere, generally stays in the rocks munching happily.
A ton of random snails, untold thousands of brittle stars, etc that populate a tank over the course of 6 years.
ROCK
A metric crapton of live rock. I've added to the pile randomly over the years, but at a guess I have 400+ lbs of nice reef rock (tonga, fiji, etc) ranging from fist sized to about 12" diameter with lots of caves, arches, and whatnot. None of it has been drilled or epoxied together. Also around 100 lbs of "base" rock (dense live rock). Tons of coraline algae.
Around 300-400 lbs of nice aragonite sand, about 90% of it is fine grain from the Marco Rocks vendor (Bahama aragonite).
TANK / EQUIPMENT
360 gallon Tenecor acrylic tank (8' wide x 3' front-to-back x 2' tall). Drilled for a 3-pipe drain system to sump. Has the usual fine scratches of a 6-8 year old tank and one deeper scratch on the right side panel near the top (hood scraped it). Can be polished out but I haven't been worried about it.
Stainless steel stand, bare metal (no wood skin / paint).
EuroReef skimmer (not sure what model, ~30" tall and 10" diameter w/ 2 pumps. Needle wheel impellers replaced in the last 6 months)
Hamilton dual 400w magnetic ballast w/ halide lights, set up with two 20k mogul socket bulbs and luminarc style reflectors.
Can't remember brand / mfg, but another dual 250w magnetic metal halide ballast with two 12k or 14k mogul socket bulbs & luminarc style reflectors.
2 Koralia Magnum 8 powerheads (and another 1-2 of the same that are older spares)
4 Koralia 1200 powerheads
Dolphin 6000gph return pump that needs some minor repair. The pump works fine and is still in use but a piece of pipe fell on it and cracked the electrical box on top.
Iwaki pressure pump for water change / water mixing (along with two 50g food grade plastic barrels for fresh and salt water mix).
Blueline pump for calcium reactor.
DIY calcium reactor with co2 tank / regulator and Bulk Reef Supply reactor mix
DIY sulfur reactor
Water General 100ish gpd RO/DI filter.
Random small pumps / powerheads for sump circulation and feeding reactors.
150 gallon Rubbermaid stock tank sump.
50ish gallon Rubbermaid stock tank for refugium.
A host of other odds and ends (testing kits, refractometers, automatic feeders, heaters, etc).
A few photos:
FISH
Adult coloration emperor angelfish (about 8")
Purple tang (6")
Yellow tang (6")
Powder brown tang (around 5")
Two blue hippo tangs (6"-8")
Two sailfin tangs (medium around 6" and large about 10")
Mated pair of occellaris clowns (paired for about 4 years, spawning fairly regularly)
Lone wolf occellaris misbarred clown around 2 years old, lives nearby the mated pair peacefully so it's probably still a juvenile.
Adult royal gramma
Adult coral beauty angelfish
Adult flame angelfish
Mandarin dragonet
CORALS / INVERTS - Not much left, I've slowly been giving my SPS / LPS colonies to friends to fill out their tanks.
Green Nepthea coral (around 8" tall) - lone wolf clownfish lives in this
Two red bubble tip anemones (around 10" diameter and a 6" diameter clone / split from the other). The mated clown pair live here.
Random ricordea all over the rocks (grey base, pink eye, green polyps and the some with reverse coloring with green eye and pink polyps).
A couple small / split finger leather corals
A devil's hand leather coral
Bubble coral (around 6" diameter globe when extended)
A couple small to mid-size stony corals (encrusting type surrounding random rocks) that I can't recall the names of.
There's a shortspine urchin in here somewhere, generally stays in the rocks munching happily.
A ton of random snails, untold thousands of brittle stars, etc that populate a tank over the course of 6 years.
ROCK
A metric crapton of live rock. I've added to the pile randomly over the years, but at a guess I have 400+ lbs of nice reef rock (tonga, fiji, etc) ranging from fist sized to about 12" diameter with lots of caves, arches, and whatnot. None of it has been drilled or epoxied together. Also around 100 lbs of "base" rock (dense live rock). Tons of coraline algae.
Around 300-400 lbs of nice aragonite sand, about 90% of it is fine grain from the Marco Rocks vendor (Bahama aragonite).
TANK / EQUIPMENT
360 gallon Tenecor acrylic tank (8' wide x 3' front-to-back x 2' tall). Drilled for a 3-pipe drain system to sump. Has the usual fine scratches of a 6-8 year old tank and one deeper scratch on the right side panel near the top (hood scraped it). Can be polished out but I haven't been worried about it.
Stainless steel stand, bare metal (no wood skin / paint).
EuroReef skimmer (not sure what model, ~30" tall and 10" diameter w/ 2 pumps. Needle wheel impellers replaced in the last 6 months)
Hamilton dual 400w magnetic ballast w/ halide lights, set up with two 20k mogul socket bulbs and luminarc style reflectors.
Can't remember brand / mfg, but another dual 250w magnetic metal halide ballast with two 12k or 14k mogul socket bulbs & luminarc style reflectors.
2 Koralia Magnum 8 powerheads (and another 1-2 of the same that are older spares)
4 Koralia 1200 powerheads
Dolphin 6000gph return pump that needs some minor repair. The pump works fine and is still in use but a piece of pipe fell on it and cracked the electrical box on top.
Iwaki pressure pump for water change / water mixing (along with two 50g food grade plastic barrels for fresh and salt water mix).
Blueline pump for calcium reactor.
DIY calcium reactor with co2 tank / regulator and Bulk Reef Supply reactor mix
DIY sulfur reactor
Water General 100ish gpd RO/DI filter.
Random small pumps / powerheads for sump circulation and feeding reactors.
150 gallon Rubbermaid stock tank sump.
50ish gallon Rubbermaid stock tank for refugium.
A host of other odds and ends (testing kits, refractometers, automatic feeders, heaters, etc).
A few photos:
