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If that falls through you should look at my plant tank, not sure it will fit in the new house. It's a 50 Truvu on a stand my friend's husband made, looks pretty good. Couple scratches that are bad, rest are pretty light. Has a shelf for a sump and no doors so I put a 20L down there with another plant tank on it, which you may also be interested in as apparently freshwater shrimp don't die in it for a change... Actually have 3'T5HO lights for the 50 too, a pair of them. Not very bright as the reflectors are crap. The 20L has a retrofit which is super bright, but might keep that. Am guessing I am going to tear it all down and donate the fish to World of Wet Pets, but we shall see. If I cram all my tanks in here the house will look ridiculous. But the landlord had over 100 herp tanks in here so I guess the roommates are cool with ridiculous over the top animal hobbies. At least I don't have a gaboon viper or 12' rattlesnake for the kitchen. Hmmm. Maybe I should put up a mantis tank where the viper was.

Dave that sounds awesome. I don't need all that gear though... could buy it and sell what I don't need or you could keep some of it. I have a copperband I need to rehome that would have loved to work on those majanos (: He's getting thin since I left the tanks at the old place. Do you want to keep any of the gear? Still love that old tank stand Shane built, kicking self. Oh well.

thanks guys... got my sister's wedding this weekend so it's out anyways. Showing up with a sore back and worried about ammonia spikes is not going to be cool. Thinking later next week or on the weekend. I still need to line up a replacement for the 120 though. Buying a used tank is remarkably difficult when you are in a hurry.

Here's a long shot... who bought USCG CWO / Shane's old glass 90 with the black wood stand? Is it up? I never see a thread on it and am perpetually kicking myself for not buying it, now need a tank with stand, drilled. Anybody know if this is sitting in a garage somewhere waiting for me? I know, I can dream... Kate

working on getting dudes to help pick this up, if it's still available...

Ok, it's time I asked for help and I am not very good at it. I moved 9 blocks from my place in SE, took all the easy stuff already. Now I need to start working on the reef tanks and have a bookshelf to move, and a couple large plants in pots from outside. My back is bad and I lack a truck, though I can borrow one, but really I need two people who are strong for the lifting, and I can pay livestock or cash for the trouble and gas. What I am thinking is 3 separate trips so I don't burn out my friends, all next week and/or weekend. Possibly different crew each trip if you get sick of dealing with it, I know I will. First tank is the frag system, which is a frag tank on stand with sump and another 25x25" stand with 2 20's on it all plumbed together. I would get the tank ready and drained, call you and then you would help load (it's not that heavy) and move it, maybe grab a shelf or something at the same time. The corals and fish would be in buckets. Would want to move fast as hope to keep most of the water. 2nd tank is the 55. Standard all glass one. It's got sps growing up the overflow so will try and get that one done fast, same way. Fish and coral in buckets, drained, call you, huck it 9 blocks. 3rd is the bad one, the 120. I am thinking it is too heavy and large for the new place, it's going in the living room of a very old house. Not sure that's a legitimate thing to worry about? Should I? It's also badly scratched... So I found a member with a 75 glass in Albany for sale, am thinking I should buy that and move it here. I would pay gas money. Anyone craving a drive to albany? (: If I can get that in the house then I can move the 120 critters mostly by myself, as the new tank cycles and time allows. I moved out on my husband but he's not being a jerk or anything, but he isn't very strong for lifting either... I just need to get this done so I am not going there every day. That and I miss my fishes. Find myself doing boring things all day like clean the new house because I don't have a tank to scrub, it's just too quiet as well. Time to get this all over with and move on. On the plus side I cleaned the new house (:

didn't find any portland people to go in on this with, any chance someone else is going to order bulbs? Otherwise am out, shipping is too much

would go for that if you were not in Albany... don't suppose you want to drive it to Portland?

Dude. I think I better sell some of my candy apple reds! $60? Awesome.

what brand of salt are you using? I am having the same problem, very suddenly. Been doing this hobby what 8 years and til like 2 months ago this never happened, and it is in all my tanks which have different parameters and means of dosing. Very concerned as it's costing me pump parts and maybe eventually pumps themselves. I dose the DIY 2 part method, usually daily on the alk and every few on the calcium. Tried diluting the calcium more and dripping slower, but I have done this for years and don't see why it suddenly would produce precipitate. Tried 2 little fishies calcium, no improvement. Went to BRS calcium, can't tell yet if that will make a difference. I don't know when the problem started, just noticed reduced flow til the pumps shut down. Probably took a couple months. During that time I was using either Kent Reef or ESV 4 part salt and RO water.

Looking to downsize from my 120, I'd trade but the acrylic is badly scratched near the sandbed and lightly elsewhere. Someone into the DSB thing would be fine with it as is. What I need is a less ginormous tank for my new place, 48" is great, anywhere 60-90 gallons but 90 might be pushing it, and I do need the stand. Drilled tanks only as it has to be pretty tight against the wall. Anybody got something they want to sell laying around?

add me, also need a free shipping buddy. Ordering some 48" T5HO bulbs. Prefer SE PDX. Any takers?

Want the tank, let me know when it's ready

I have 4 melanurus and 1 yellow coris in my 120, and used to have a pair of skunk cleaners. Can't really swear it was the fish that did in the skunks, shrimp are fussy and I lost some in another system. The wrasses like to pick up snails and try to smash them against coral, which breaks some of the sps, not so keen on that. They also chewed up one leg of my sand sifting starfish when I first added it, but it grew back and they have left it alone over the last couple years. I think mainly they feel obligated to chew up anything new or that which falls to the sand. I bet if you gave them cat toys they would chew on those too. What I found the wrasses to not kill are white leg hermits (pagurus longicarpus), the margarita and nerite species sold at World of Wet Pets, and very large turbo snails. Also that pair of fire shrimp. Always add the inverts at night, and if you knock one over put it upright. Seems like the wrasses forget about the snails unless you draw their attention to it by moving it or adding it while they can see, and they are always watching. You could also distract them with a "clam on the half shell" Or a cat toy (: I am not actually all that big on clean up crews, after having turbo snails block my overflow and knock my frags into each other enough times got sick of that. (They only knock the most expensive frag over, always onto something cheap and more powerful. It's a policy they have) So I got smaller snails, at least they are better and they are more agile so clean harder to reach areas. I saw a blue leg hermit eat my gorgonian one day so started pulling them out, one unfortunately learned to eat only at night and finished the gorg off before I caught it. White legs seem safer. The white legs seem to have good reflexes so that if the wrasses go after them they close up fast enough. They also quickly learn to eat only at night and hide all day. I was not too sad about the wrasses finishing the blue legs. In another system I have a radiant wrasse, he does not seem to have an appetite for inverts. Radiants are related to the "yellow coris" which also seems safer than a melanurus, but you never know. The green wrasse you describe as well as the 6, 8 and 12 line types I have consistently heard complaints about, but then almost nobody gets on the boards to say "gee I love this fish, it doesn't have ich or misbehave, eats anything no carpet surfing, it's just fine."

2 of the stores mentioned will ignore the specs of your tank and sell you inappropriate items for maximum profit so arm yourself with restraint and a solid idea of what you want, a critical eye for bull**** and diseased animals, and you should be good. Ok 3 of those stores on the disease issue.l ended up with parasites a couple months ago, new ones not ich, they live in the gills. Those fish of course I had not quarantined and boy did I pay. Oddly I bought my yellow tang from one of those stores a few years ago and he has never had a problem. I don't even think it is possible to avoid buying a fish that has been exposed to ich, tell you the truth. The shops do their best but it's probable that certain LA wholesalers burn through so many fish they don't even notice when they ship sick ones. The industry tries to keep the fish well but ich happens. And worse. Love Premium Aquarium though, wish it was not so far away! Upscales is solid, if I didn't already have all their stuff I would go there more (: .

PS do what I do.... wait a year or two. prices in this hobby fluctuate madly based on trends, and personally I can wait to spend on something I know was $30 a few years ago. It will never be that cheap again but I doubt it will hit $200 again either, could be wrong as PPE never got cheap, but most everything else I have seen has come back down if it can be cultured. I don't think people are culturing these yet is the problem. They don't like being cut.

I know someone with a good scoly for $100, solid red. He has a couple higher end ones too, the green and red striped and the rainbow striped morphs. Those were stinkin expensive when he bought them and are receding badly as the fish (kole tang and Cirrhilabrus wrasse) steal all their food. He wants $100 for either of them as well. I was feeding them manually in isolation for a while and they came back for a while, but then the fish learned to rip the corals open and get the food that way so I stopped while he still had some alive.

I have a grip of dragon fire macro...

siphon it out and make sure it does not happen again... that happened years ago to me and am still picking out pellets of carbon from the sump and sand bed. I don't think anything bad resulted but powder from carbon has been linked to HLLE so try not to let it happen again

I like that you can put dividers in there, you could put anemones in the center and propagate them. Or anything with sweepers. I think you kinda have to have a fish in there, the coral like the waste and a reliable herbivore will keep algae in check. If it's a species prone to jumping it's a drag, must have a lid. Course if you put a lid on it see how much dust accumulates, if it's like mine then you have to wonder if all that stuff is really ok in an open top tank. Appalling amount of dust in my house.

awesome! I would have stuck it out but yeah. Had to go. That bike ride I am pretty sure was uphill in both directions and constituted actual exercise, something I normally avoid. I guess I am glad I did not try and do it in the dark with a couple more beers in my belly. Nice meeting the new people, looking forward to the next one! RE doughnuts and coffee, no reason we can't do that as well. Or brunch really.

Bump for happy hour. Really, this is fun.

do you know who the band is? Last time I was there it was an exceptionally talented group doing real country music and bluegrass. The hipsters had on their brand new stetsons and tony lamas for the occasion. The venue is run by someone with good taste, normally am not a country kinda gal, but good music in any style is good. Pop in any style you can guess my opinion on I am sure.

There is a park on the same block as my house that people have parties at all the time... maybe I can do it. First and last time ever, as am probably going to liquidate my tanks. Might as well have a last splash eh? But house itself is tiny, so a big group would be weird if it rained.

alright I won't quit, feel a tiny nano goby width less depressed. Probably should just go to Macna, as I want to touch the hand of the son of Jaques Cousteau. And meet all these facebook friends I have. If BrianB and pledosophy go we can have a little PNW gang, that would be cool. Is it worth taking an extra day there to see the public aquarium?