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Finally got the Calcium Reactor figured out and am playing with it over the next week or so to get all the measurements right. I am going to run 40 BPM 45 ML-PM 6.7PH Reactor 8.35PH Tank I used some Liquid Calcium to bring the calcium up to 390ppm and will do that again this week to hopefully bring it up to 420ppm (actually 450-460ppm in the main tank) Updated Fish List (what I currently have in the main tank) 6 - Pajama Cardinals 2 - Black & White Oscellaris Clowns 6 - Blue Sapphire Damselfish 15 - Blue/Green Chromis 5 - Yellow Tangs 1 - Desardini Sailfin Tang 2 - Basslets 2 - Anthias 4 - Tomato Clowns 2 - Sailfin Algae Blennies 2 - Scooter Blennies 1 - Mandarin Goby 1 - Spotted Goby 2 - Sand Sifting Gobies 1 - Six Line Wrasse 1 - Leopard Wrasse 1 - Exquisite Wrasse 1- Scott's Fairy Wrasse Inverts 1 - Blue Linkia Starfish 2 - Fighting Conchs 1 - Long Tentacle Anenome 2 - Rose Bulb Anenomes 1 - Green Carpet Anenome 3 - Green Brittle Stars 3 - Sand Sifting Stars 1 - Sand Sifting Cucumber 1 - Blue Tuxedo Urchin In Refugium 2 - Blue/Green Chromis 1 - Six Line Wrasse 1 - Long Nose Yellow Butterfly Still looking at adding in the future 1 - Blue Tang 1 - Other Tang 5 - Blue Sapphire Damselfish 4 - Anthias I started the tank with 2 clams and have unfortunately lost both. I am waiting for everything to settle before trying more clams. All corals are doing great and visibly growing. I will probably do fish, coral, and clam additions after my June order and will definitely post pics for everyone. Till then, back to wedding preparations. P.S. - Thanks for the help Nyles

Its on a Milwaukee Controller that was set at 6.6 PH and I have now brought down to 6.4 PH. I upped the bubble count slightly yesterday to a steady bubble of about 100-120 BPM and am waiting to see if that does a difference. I am just so new to Calcium Reactors that its a learning process.

Everything sold. Thanks to everyone

I have the largest Mag-Float they make (about 8"X3") that gets most of it, its an arm workout for sure and takes about 15 minutes, done about twice a week. I then use a scraper (acrylic safe) to scrape the top and bottom areas which is even harder on the arms and takes about 30 minutes, done every other week. I already have one or two scratches in the acrylic, but they aren't highly visible. The flow of the tank (not designed this way, just miraculously happened) causes all detritus (or most) to be swept into one corner which is easily accessible and cleaned. I have 192 watts of U.V., a monstrous Protein Skimmer and 5 pounds of Carbon that do most of the cleaning for me. The only thing I haven't fully figured out yet is my bloody Calcium Reactor. I have to tweak with it constantly (although with each tweak I try to let it settle for 24-48 hours) and try to get it to kick out a constant supply of Calcium. Without any touching of the dial, one day its shooting 30bpm and the next its shooting 90bpm, I don't quite understand it. On my first bottle of CO2 I was hovering around 430ppm Calcium and now on the second bottle I am hovering around 370ppm Calcium. I guess it could be the Coral Load has increased, but I can't adjust the reactor to up the ppm Calcium, and I don't want to shoot 180bpm into the reactor. Any ideas from anyone? I am using a Geo 624 Calcium Reactor with 16 pounds of large cal bits, and a Pond pump is providing circulation at 600gph and a Maxijet 1200 is providing intake water from the sump. I have the Effluent-out set at just above dripping (slow stream).

New Images Left Side of Tank Right Side of Tank My new Black & White Oscellaris My school of 15 Green Chromis and 5 Purple Chromis Starfish Love Some Corals Corals are growing pretty nice and hopefully in a year they may be big enough to frag a little.

Sorry, phosphate meter sold. It was a Milwaukee/Martini Laboratories Instruments

If any of you haven't noticed I have my own forum for my occassional open purchases. Here is a link http://www.pnwmas.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=74. I prefer to keep all future talk about purchases to that forum. Thanks

Phosban Reactors Sold

PM's answered. Iwakis have been sold.

All PM's answered. Pending payment on Iwaki Pumps and Phosban Reactors.

Hello All, Time for some spring cleaning 2 - 1-1/2" Heavy Duty Six Sided Bulk Heads (never used)- $10 each Pan World 40PX Pump (never used, brand new) - $70 - SOLD 2 - Phosban Reactor 150 (used, but in good condition) - $15 each - SOLD Iwaki 100RLT External Pump (used) - $60 - SOLD Iwaki 70RLT External Pump (used) - $50 - SOLD Iwaki 55RLT External Pump (used) - $40 - SOLD CurrentSea Wavemaker for 4 Pumps (never used) - $25 - SOLD Lifegard Fluidized Bed Filter FP300 w/ Sand (used) - $25 Kent Marine Nautilus EX-24 Protein Skimmer (used) - $50 - SOLD Pinpoint Calcium Monitor (used) - $50 - SOLD Phosphate Low Range Meter (brand new, never used) - $60 - SOLD A lot of you may be asking why I am getting rid of this stuff and why is some of it at such low prices. Well frankly this is spring cleaning for me and I don't care about "making my money back", I just want to get some money I can put towards other aquarium buys (such as my coral/fish buy in June) and hopefully help someone find a good deal that will help their current aquarium. My tank is just too darn big for all of this stuff anymore and its just taking up space. First come first serve, I will not hold any item, as soon as someone pays for the item it will be sold and then I can hold it. I can take Cash, Credit Card, or PayPal. Everything here is sold as is with no warranty. If you want pics let me know and I will try to get some posted tomorrow. Thanks Douglas

The tank is coming along great. Obviously making tweaks here and there, but overall everything is still the same (just corals and fish growing). I will try to take some pics this weekend. I am definitely making an order in June, so I am giving everyone 2 months advance notice, get your lists together! Obviously I can't give pricing till the end of May, but when I get back from my honeymoon May 22nd I will start taking lists and send out pricing and gather my order. I will officially submit the order June 3rd, so everyone needs to have their order into me by then, delivery will be on June 4th or 5th. I prefer pickup same day, I can possibly hold for the weekend, but don't offer a guaranty on the hold. I do offer an arrive alive guaranty, if your order doesn't arrive alive (at my location) you don't pay for it. I can't ship to anyone because I don't know how to do it well enough to ensure the safety of your items, sorry. Later everyone!

I would be interested in knowing also, I have a 450 gallon reef. I was thinking 5-6 females and 1 male. But, know which kind and if that number is close to good.

Had the same thing 2 months after my tank started. I just turned off the lights for a couple of days and let the cleaner crew do their job. I also reduced the fish feeding. Its a cycle thing, it will go away as long as you do the right thing. Do not add any more cleaner crew, if they starve and die off it will add to your problem. Nothing happens fast in the aquarium hobby, take your time and things will work out for the best. Good Luck

Another Update: February 10th, 2008 The shipment came in Friday instead of Thursday unfortunately. Thankfully I only lost 3 chromis, no corals or inverts had issues. Thank you to all those that took me up on my offer and I hope everyone is happy with what they got, I know some great stuff came in on this shipment. Anyway, I finally hooked up my two Aqua 57 Watt Sterilizers for 114 watts of U.V. Sterilizing Power! I have also purchased a Sequence Barracuda and Sequence Snapper to add to my Sequence Dart for all my circulation needs, they are quieter and take less electricity than my Iwakis (who I have loved, trusted, and used for many years). The Skimmer is currently pulling about 2 liters of crap every week and keeping the tank nice and clean. I finally got rid of all the algae and purple coraline is taking over. Here is my attempt at taking multiple pics and combining them for a full tank shot Here are pics of some of the corals I have received over my last few orders About an 8" wide Pagoda Cup. The little fish in this pic was sold to me as a "Purple Chromis", but I don't know for sure. Yes, this is a Superman Montipora. My 3 Cleaner Shrimp and their "Station", just below them in a cave is a huge 5" Coral Banded Shrimp. This is a pic of one of my Aqua U.V. Sterilizers I was watching the tank the other night in the moonlight and was very suprised to see most of the fish pairing up and some doing what I think are mating rituals, very cool to watch (especially the scooter blennies and their dance that almost looks like the end fight scene out of Matrix 3, swirling around each other mid air then going back down to the ground). I probably won't update much in the upcoming months, I am focusing more on my wedding and most of my weeks will be filled with preparations, hopefully when I am done with all of it the corals will have grown out a little and I will update with more pics. One final pic though, just next to the front side of the tank my father has his "Man Area" with his guitars, thought some of you might enjoy it. One last comment. For those that want to order from me again or for the first time I will probably be ordering again in June, so get those wish lists going. Later Douglas

Hey Reefhut - How much? PM me

I will buy the whole thing from you, PM me with a price. Thanks

Some people have asked for items outside of just corals (clams, fish, etc.). If you are looking for another item let me know. This offer closes Wednesday January 30th by 5:00p.m. And payment is accepted when you pick up the item (if an item doesn't make the trip than you don't pay for it). I only offer an arrive alive guaranty, what you do to it once you get it home is out of my control and not covered by any guaranty.

I have followed his tank for a while. Its amazing that some people have such great success with so little and others can screw up so bad with everything you could ever need and all the money in the world. I actually remember some guy on reefcentral that built a 600-800 gallon tank and spent almost $50,000 and it totally crashed on him after 4 months, he gave up and sold everything off. Sad Day.

Thank you Garrett, that is what it is. Unfortunately my camera isn't very good and the pics I tried to take today aren't very clear (guess I need to a heavy duty glass cleaning). I will try to do a good cleaning this weekend and try for more pics, I think you can see from some of my previous pics though that they still won't be great. I will give this guaranty on this order, if you don't like the piece than you don't have to buy it, I will keep it. I will do that for up to 3 pieces. I have just become a sponsor (you can check with Chief or JManrow if you need confirmation). I have bumped up the order date, I am ordering on January 30th for delivery of February 7th. I just want to make one more comment - I am not trying to take business from any retailers, I purchase often from almost all of them myself (Aqua Serene, Liquid Sunshine, Pet Time, Petco). I am making a friendly one time offer. I appreciate that some people don't like the idea and that is fine, but some people just can't afford great quality corals/fish and why shouldn't they get a deal once a year as kind of a birthday gift? Just my thoughts.

I have emailed Chief about becoming a sponsor. It is a blind-buy, I really can't cherry pick unless I am willing to visit them and take it home with me at the time, which will probably never happen (I visited in December, but couldn't carry a box of corals/fish on the plane, and I don't trust checking, LOL). Anyway, I have my own private business, based on word of mouth, I didn't want to bring it up on here, I just wanted to offer a fun deal and make some people happy. If I become a sponsor I probably won't have a forum (don't want one) and will only offer these type of deals once or twice a year (if at all). This is probably the last shipment I will doing for a little while anyway, because I have to focus on my wedding (May 4th). Later

I am sorry if I don't know the "Rules", I have only been a member here a short while. I have legitimate connections with my wholesalers (and they do perform strict background checks before approving anyone). I was offering a one time deal for the members of this site, I am sorry that was taken wrong by someone. I just look at it this way - The fewer hands you have to go through to get a fish or coral the better success you will have at keeping it alive and it thriving. Unfortunately some LFS don't have the correct equipment for some of the livestock they bring in, so if you don't get it quick you usually are getting it sick or dieing. Just my two cents, take it how you want

Hey Everyone, Tank is coming along great and I am looking at adding some hard and soft corals for my tank. I purchase from wholesalers and they have great package deals $11 each for Softies (Small to Medium pieces, such as 5-15 polyps for zoo's) $17 each for Hardies (Small to Medium pieces, such as 2-4 branches for acro) If I see some interest I will post a list of what types are available (most of the time they just ship random packs though, but I am pretty sure if you need a certain piece I can get a deal on that too). I am placing an order February 7th that will get delivered in Eugene on February 13th. I can ship to you, but I have not shipped corals before and offer no guaranty. But, I am happy to be available all day on the 13th if you want to come pick up your coral. They both have pretty extensive lists, so if you have a special request please let me know and I will find out pricing and availability for you. I will post pics tomorrow of some of the first pieces I have received. Night

When did this happen? Last I heard he had a major crash but was rebuilding. Did he give up on that?