Blacklabel7

Comes with everything except a stand:

Heater

Lighting

Pump

Moonlighting

Tank is clean, I have a 29 Gallon and don't need this anymore.

Call or text Chad at 503-400-2008 for faster response. PM's good too.

I live in Beaverton and travel to Salem a couple times a week.

stuff is gone... never mind

Hey, I mentioned that I believe what your saying... Im just lettin it fly for now with every intention of learning the hard way. Besides, its not technically my tank anyways. When I have the time and money to do this the right way, then I sure as hell wont be messing around with play sand... for now this tank is just that... for play and experimentation. Thanks for the advice down at the shop and dont think I just ignore it.

Well I did it... I went down to Lowes in Salem and bought 100 lbs. of "Commercial Grade Quikrete Medium Sand". The bag says that it MAY contain Crystalline Silica so that pretty much means I bought Silica Sand. It looks pretty and I just recently took in a dying Goniopora, so that is the only "living" thing in my tank besides the snails and hermits. I've heard the bad stories and my LFS told me that I need to take it out... I believe him but I just dont have anything in my tank to kill and I want to take the chance. I'll let you know how it does...

Mark failed to mention that he got his entire setup through a trade for a nice camera... talk about a good deal. Then I guess since he got such a badass deal, this guy GAVE me his previous 50 Gallon setup... I'm thinking that a tank all set up and reef ready is pretty [language filter] good christmas present...

I got these up on craigslist so shoot me a PM if interested.

The tank is for Mark, the lighting is for me (actually Jadams7 but im managing for him).

Tank: http://salem.craigslist.org/ele/484004866.html

Lights: http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/fur/484151626.html

Being that a few people say they have silica sand and there is a lot of proof against silica being bad in tanks, I think the hundreds of dollars saved is kind of worth the try. Plus you could probably get the exact sand you wanted by buying from a quarry. Any objections to trying it out? Ive been thinking about switching my sand out anyways so it seems this opportunity is screamin my name. Let me know if im about to make a mistake...

What size sand? Im looking for a nice sugar sized whiter sand. Thanks!

Is it bad to keep dead sponges and old frags? I never thought about it until I saw that article say that dying sponges release harmful stuff. What about already dead stuff? And can any1 see the gree tubes up in the top left corner of the first picture? I cant really figure out what it is besides some random tube worm with a discolored tube...

Thanks for the read dsoz! Like I said, I have above average knowledge of marine life but I still have much to learn. I was an aide for a very good Marine Biology teacher named John Borowski so I learned alot from my experience with him. After that Ive done a LOT of reading and research to figure out what to do when I finally join this hobby. Now that I have, I've taken peoples advice on taking it slow.

My tank has been set up for a few months. I let hair algae completely swarm my tank and I never touched it thinking that eventually it would use up all its food and take care of itself. After a while of that I got nervous thinking that it would never end so after about a month of algae growth I took it all out by hand and did a fairly good job of cleaning it. Shortly after I introduced a cleanup crew.

30 Blue Legs, 20 Astraeas and 10 Nassarius.. thats all I have to start off and thats why I made this post.

Right now I have a basic little setup going on. Im running blue/super actinics, a dual biowheel filter and a couple powerheads on a 50 gallon acrylic tank. My sand is a combo of crushed coral and aragonite. I dont know how much live rock I have but you can take a guess by the pictures. Im debating on setting up a sump with an overflow box to put my filter below the tank and eventually Im going to upgrade my powerheads and install a skimmer. But that comes later.

And dont laugh at my little lawn in the middle of my tank!

I've slowly been starting my tank up and have had just a bunch of hermits and snails running around the tank keeping it tidy. I need a few things before I start getting into my reef setup.

I need:

Sugar-Sized Live Sand

Entry level Skimmer

More Nassarius Snails

More Hermits (preferrably red-legged)

Sally Lightfoot Crab

Emerald Crabs

And Im interested in:

Cucumbers

BTAs

Perculas

Shrimp

and gobies.

If you have any suggestions to stuff that is good to start out with them shoot me a message. I always like the extra knowledge (dont worry though, Ive done quite a bit of research). All offers welcome!

The sand says it is spoken for but if it falls through... what size is the sand. Im also just wanting to buy around 15-20 snails if I cant have the sand so let me know!