cdumitru78

Let me know if its not sold please.

agree with you about splitting it But my schedule this month and next month simply won't allow me to split it, so I might have to wait for a while or so before I can do that. Lately my corals have really taken off, I live really close to Tim at West Side so he has helped me get this tank on the right path and being consistent with it seems to help quite a lot. He has some great prices on corals, so I added quite a few frags that I have not listed, and they are starting to take off.

Thanks for the compliments, appreciate it. Would love to keep it, but I know I will end up not carrying for it as I have, so better to see it go. Please make sure to check the pics, link provided in the original post. Cristian

Price is now down to $1100.00 Sadly, I no longer have the time to care for this great tank, so I would rather sell now than see fall victim to neglect. Here is a link with quite a few pics, as well as early pics of the tank. http://gallery.me.com/cdumitru#100040&bgcolor=black&view=grid This is a beautiful 75-gallon acrylic tank in great shape. Very few inside scratches, but really nothing major that cannot be buffed out with the included acrylic scratch removal kits (2 kits included). Come with matching stand and canopy, made out of beautiful mahogany. This was a custom design, with built in fans (both in the stand and the canopy) and it is in great shape, really nice furniture piece that would look good anywhere. I am selling everyihng I have with this tank, so while I am sure I am missing out many items in my description, come check it all out, this is a great package. Tank comes with a built in overflow, with an acrylic custom-made sump. For circulation, I have a GenX40 and 4 Koralia 3’s. Four filter socks are included with the tank. Tank has a nice ASM G1x modded skimmer, in the sump, great skimmer. Other miscellaneous parts: Two acrylic scratch removal kits Acrylic safe tank cleaner – Piranha series float Great refractometer, comes in a black case (Milwuakie, not a cheapie) 20 gallon quarantine tank 6 white 5-gallon water jugs for water changes Saltwater testing kits includes calcium testing, magnesium and alkalinity Additives (calcium, alkalinity, magnesium, Kent brand) Various types of medications Frozen and dry food Glue Frag holder (acrylic straight type from Eshopps) The fish Two clowns and a medium sized anemone Two tangs – Tomini and a Blue Tang 6 line Wrasse Pair of Cardinals The invertebrates Complete clean up crew, with hermit crabs, and various snails. I also have 4 emerald crabs and a cleaner shrimp The corals I always have a hard time naming all corals in the tank; hopefully the pics will help out here. Green acropora, several colonies Beautiful blue acropora, very large colony, fragged many times Blue, red and green millepora Montipora digitata green and orange/red Orange monti capricornis Blue tip staghorn Green staghorn Birdsnest Hydnophora LPS Corals 2 types of Green blasto with dark red/brown edges, about 6 heads, great looking coral as well as a small head version Hammer coral, neon green, about 4 heads Various trumpet corals/candy canes – about 3 varieties, over 25 heads total Green lobophyllia coral, 2 heads Purple Ribbon gorgnonian (fast grower, great color under my lights) Various green zoanthids, green palythoas Yellow toadstool leather Yellow blue leather coral Large nice deep green sinularia (2 colonies) Many other small frags, really I cannot even name them all, but certainly worth checking out. Lastly, I will not part this; I would rather sit, wait and gradually lower the price until someone wants it all as one piece. Thanks, and call me with any questions. Cristian Dumitru 503-544-9357

OK - quick update, did one treatment today early in the AM, took as many invertebrates out as I could catch and dosed with Interceptor. I think my math was slightly off so I dosed about 30% more than I should have, but now in the evening, the affected corals are bug free, I cannot locate any bugs on them, and one of the corals had a significant amount of bugs. I just did a 35 gallon water change, everything looks good. I will dose again early next week and late next week. Interestingly I had a shrimp that I could not catch and some snails, they are all alive. Thanks for all the help and quick replies, this was a lot easier than I anticipated.

OK, one of my friends locally helped me get the Interceptor, I have it, time to do some more reading and get my dosage right, I will make sure to post my results. Thanks for all the help.

Thank for all the help, I have only purchased frags in the last three months from one store, I will make sure to let them know about it, no trades so no one else should have to worry about this coming from me. I have a 75 gallon tank and I can only see it on two of my nice acropora colonies towards the front of the tank, they are definitely on those two colonies so I suspect they might be on other frags.

As the title says, I am pretty sure I got these nasty things in my tank, so I need a bit of help getting rid of these suckers. Everyone seems to agree that interceptor treatment is the way to go, but I have no access to it. Is there anyway to get this without a prescription, or are there any other thoughts regarding this? I was planning to follow treatment/dosage as listed on Melev's website, but any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Eww, this guy is back at it, I even set him a message telling him to go away.

Are you around tomorrow, interested in the filter socks. Thanks, Cristian

yeah, I think I will end up with MH's seems to be the general consensus. Given that space under the tank is rather tight with the sump and skimmer, do you guys think the Dual Galaxy 250 is a good option? I like the size of it, unless there is something close in price/size. Thanks for all the help.

Thanks for the quick reply, cost wise I think I will end up in the same place at the end, and I am thinking it will be much easier to go halides. Are the halides going to be significantly hotter? I have a fan built into the canopy.

So here is what I am currently running, this is built into the canopy - 6 VHO's (46.5 inch) running off 3 workhorse 7 ballasts, - 75 gallon tank with LPS and SPS, getting decent growth, all SPS towards the top I have been toying around with the idea of upgrading my lights, and here are my thoughts - keep 4 of the VHO's and add 2 x 250 metal halides (i like the dual Galaxy ballast for space reasons) or go all T5's. Do you guys know if my Workhorse 7 ballasts can run t5's, and if so how many, and would that be a significant upgrade over what I have, especially if I also buy proper reflectors, or should I simply buy the metal halides? Any thoughts suggestions would be much appreciated.

So so true, this hobby would be so much cheaper if we all learn from this article.

Dealt with this stuff about 8 months back, quarantined one fish, used hyposalinity, and lost that fish. Left the other fish in the tank, fed them well and soaked all food in Kent Garlic, they all got better. The reef central experts will tell you the ich is still in your system, but it never came back to my tank. Good luck.