cdumitru78

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.

I had a six line and a mandarin in an established 75 gallon, and the mandarin slowly starved to death... that sucked. I took the six line out, waited about 5 months and bought another mandarin, he has been in the tank for about 3 months and he is fat and happy. Good luck if you end up with a mandarin, great fish.

I have used both, fish seem to love both. It would be nice to be able to compare ingredients, not sure if that would be possible.

Used for about 6 months, just replaced the lights. No mods, all stock, except the bioballs, which were replaced with small live rock. Some small scratches from the scraper, nothing major and definitely no cracks/leaks. Fan, lights all work.

It needs a good cleaning (some coralline growth on the glass and back of the tank), currently running with nothing besides black gravel and several snails. I simply don't have the time or desire to care for 2 tanks. I will also include Kent Marine Part A and Part B with it, both bottles two thirds full.

Made by Oceanic

Thanks

Thanks guys, given that it gets pretty large I decided to go against it. I might instead get a smaller fish that I know can do OK in my tank in the long run like a wrasse or something similar. I know Patrick gets some really nice wrasses in sometimes, maybe I will go that route, but man, some of the nicer Wrasses look great but are so expensive.

Thanks for the responses though, I appreciate it.

If I am willing to live with the possibility of some invertebrate loss, do you guys think a 90 gallon is large enough for one of these triggers though? I was thinking of finding a small trigger and possibly taking a chance?

Thanks for all the responses.

Anyone have any knowledge on this guy? I have a 90 gallon reef tank (4 feet footprint), with a clown pair, flame angelfish, a mandarin and a tomini tang. Reefkeeping magazine had a nice article on these fish and it got me thinking... and wishing. I am worried it might get too big and it might pick on my invertebrates. Any thoughts?

Thanks

Catholicteacher,

I had battled ich in the past and tried most of the chemicals listed above - pretty sure you're wasting your time and money with those, there is no proof out there that they "work". The ich goes through its life cycle, and while you think your tank is cured, the ich might come back tenfold. I have tried the Hyposalinity Treatment described here - http://atj.net.au/marineaquaria/hyposalinity.html with great success twice and at the same time I ran my tank without any fish for 8 weeks, I now have a ich free tank. You might also wanna go to reefcentral and under the "disease" section there is a wealth of info about ich and how to deal with it. Good luck with it, and you might want to invest in a quarantine tank, they are really cheap to set up and well worth the hassle.

Interested in some of the babies, I have a tank set up for them, how can I see them, and can I contact you to run my set up by you?

Thanks,

Cristian

Nice tank, I really like the lights and I am seriously thinking about upgrading to the same ballast/bulbs. Could you please tell me what reflectors you're using, I don't think I saw that in your thread.

Thanks...

I am in for one as well

Joel,

Please put me down for one too, I would love to try Rod's stuff.

Interested in the calcium reactor, could you please tell me more about it?

Thanks