ahreno

I would entertain the idea. I've got plexi though... 300 gallon... 30" x 2feet x 8feet

i just dipped it about 2 hours ago

just curious, what sponsor is on the board and is it true thats against the "rules" of the club

And yeah, I personally WOULD have a problem if someone that wasn't a sponsor on the site bought something strictly for resale. If ahreno came and bought the whole lot for his personal tank thats great. But if he bought the whole thing to sell off on other channels it would be unethical. Abusing / exploiting the purpose of the board... in my mind anyways. which is why i brought it up to see everyone's thoughts. You seriously can't even see my point in this? That it may be crossing a line?

I totally respect this side of the argument... but you also have to respect where I'm coming from. When a bunch of highly sought after rare pieces come up for sale and they're all snatched up by one retail store its a bummer so i brought up the point that it could be an issue to be discussed. Now that a sponsor is on the board it makes it harder to have an unbiased decision. Let's look at the extremes of the situation. 1. Sponsor are allowed to shop. Everytime anyone posts anything on the board it is snatched up by a sponsor. Since you can routinely find killer deals here it would get to a point that you could run a store just by having someone monitor the forum and buy everything. Equipment, tanks, livestock. No "real" people get any good deals and have to shop at LFS 2. Sponsors are not allowed to shop. People post things and they don't sell. The price lowers until the seller isn't willing to sell at the price. Then the option of taking in to a local fish store is open (as it was in the beginning). They can then ask the same price as they started at on the board.

Wow. settle down. There is no need to turn this into a flame war. I'm 29 years old and have better things to do with my time than fight online. It was brought up to be discussed. That's what this is here. A discussion board. I'm not trying to ruin your business or make you "f'ing mad" or slap you in your face. Take a deep breath... remember it's only the internet. lets take a look at some of your points. Are you telling me that you store owners don't have the same mentality about us? I haven't personally been to your store so I'm not directing it at you directly... LFS around here rape and pillage customers. I have never found a "great deal" in a LFS. No, the problem there would be the fact that you bought it for cheap from a small local community of people, fragged it, then sold each frag for twice what you paid for the colony. Thats where the problem comes in. We all understand that. No need to whine about it (to use the term you so often use in your post). We all know that you have to jack your prices up to cover your overhead and operating expenses. Thats sort of the purpose of the classified section. Is so that people have an avenue to purchase equipment and livestock and not have to deal with the ridiculous prices in a fish store (or the annoying salesmen, pushy managers, inhumanely shipped/handled/gathered livestock) I find it interesting that you can't even see the other side of the conversation in this. If you were a stamp collector and you and your friends got together and traded stamps together and sold them to each other at a very affordable price then all of a sudden Billy from Stamp Store started coming to your trade meetings and bought EVERYTHING that people had, took it back to his store and doubled (if not more) the price only to want to sell it right back to you. That isn't something you'd even want to discuss with your friends? Especially if it was easy to prevent Billy from coming to your meetings? Of course your friends always had the option of going to Stamp Store to sell their goods but instead they wanted to keep it in the community. Just curious now, would you be willing to pay the retail price on these items that you would charge your customers?

It's a fine line to look at in terms of allowing the purchases to be made for personal tanks. How is that montiored? I think that if a store wants the publicity of being a sponsor that is where their relationship ends. They get the publicity of the site but the classified sections are out of bounds. Blocked by IP address. If someone wants to do a quick sale of everything then they can pack the stuff up and head into the store... Thats my opinion anyways.

There have been a couple of times that I have seen whole tanks or large amounts of livestock come up for sale in the classified section and then a "sponsor" comes in and buys the entire lot. To me, I feel like that is a conflict of interest or exploitation of the site/group. As i posted in response on one of the threads it happened in one of the highlights of this site is the classified section. There are some great deals to be found on things that LFS don't carry. It's a great place for local people to find good deals on rare or other hard to find items and not have to pay insane prices at LFS or for shipping. To see a full tank go up for sale complete with some very nice rare and expensive items is a sad thing, but it also means that those pieces are going out into our community... they'll more than likely be traded or fragged and sold for fair prices. When a sponsor comes in and buys the entire lot it leaves a bad taste in my mouth as you can only assume that those pieces are going to double or triple (and the size of the piece decrease) by the time they show up in their tanks. The likely hood of those pieces finding their way back into the community are very small. What are other peoples thoughts? Should sponsors be allowed in the classified section? Is there any middle of the road solution? Am i overreacting?

I think there should be some sort of rule about "Sponsors" buying livestock... especially like this. One of the best things about this site is the ability to find good deals on coral. LFS charge double what people here charge (not complaining - I understand the reasons behind it) so to see someone offer up all this good stuff and then see a sponsor come in and say I'll buy it all just makes me a bit angry. I've been looking for sunset monti for a while... here comes some up for sale but then a sponsor comes in and buys it. If it's for a personal tank I'd understand (but still argue that it shouldn't be allowed) but I'd be willing to put a bet that these all end up in a store with a higher price tag. So in the case that you would be willing to break that sunset monti out of the pack I'd love to get it.

i can't see anything on it. I pulled it out and looked with a magnifying glass. I HAVE been on the computer for about 12 hours though so i don't claim that my eyes are in good shape right now. Miles is going to come over and check them out tomorrow.

It's nice that you're doing this on a trade basis. The site needs a complete redo. 100%. Get rid of scrolling text. No excuse for that. It's not 1995. Get rid of the "email me" button graphic as well as view shopping cart. It's not 1995. Not trying to be harsh but there really isn't much good about the site. Ditch it and start over. If you don't know how to start in Fireworks of Photoshop and do a mock, then slice up and code the least you can do is start with a wordpress or other CMS system and use a free skin. customize the header image and create pages in wordpress as opposed to posts. I can help walk you through that if you like. The navigation is beyond inconsistant. You NEED to have consistant navigation. Same on every page, every page going to every other page. Think of a user trying to find his way around when the navigation keeps change position. get rid of the date and time on the bottom and the counter. It's not 1995. Use google analytics and theres no need to tell me the date and time.

My Leng Sy cap has taken a sudden change for the worse. It has some white spots on it that are pretty decent sized. I'm not sure whats going on with it and I'm fearing monti eating nudi branches. Sorry for the quality of pictures but it's not easy to get pictures with my macbook!

the fish tank is for the owners/creators of Eve Online. A Massive online role playing game.

Yeah... I'd say $50k is waaay low. The guy that put together my 300 gallon spent around $20k (or at least so he said when he sold me the house).

ETS Super Skimmer is what i have. I did break the tiower part off but sealed it back up. if there is any sort of air leak it doesn't seem to skim... as i can test by lightly opening up one of the screws to seal it. Is it possible that the extake (if thats a word) gets too full of gunk to properly pull?

I'm having issues with my skimmer... I dont have the brand handy but it doesn't really matter... it's a quality skimmer. It worked fine for the first year or so but then i cleaned it and it hasn't really started workin well since then. When it's clean I can see the bubbl and everything looks like it's working fine. It feels up and bubbles over. And it seems fine After a week or two everything is coated in gunk including the inside of the tube heading to the waste bucket. After that first week or so nothing really drains out at all. if i disconnect the tube heading to the waste bucket is pulled off I can tell that there is air trying to push out so I'm convinced the skimmer is "trying" to work... Anyone have any ideas?

nevermind I realized my mistake

thanks man... if i go with the ushio 20k will i get any sort of coral growth out of them? i was hesitant to even go to 14k as i am worried that my corals will stop growing.

I've heard good things about coralvue as well... anyone else have thoughts? Also will i get decent coral growth out of 14ks?

I dont know exactly what the ballasts are called. They're dual 250s each (2 of them powers 4 lights) they're blue. under them it says Powered by Advance and the other sticker says Sunlight Supply. BW-7. I am pretty sure they are Blue Wave 7 Dual HQI 250W Metal Halide Ballast by Sunlight Supply

Right now i have 2 Gieseman Megachrome 250w coral. I dont know how many K they are as it doesn't say on them and i didn't purchase them. Then i have 2 10K generics that you gave me. these don't necassarily have to be replaced as they're not very used. For t5's the side with the generic 250's has 4 super actinic lights and the other side i have 2 super actinics and 2 that i can't tell what they are. Blue plus perhaps? I dont like the colors i'm getting. A frog spawn and hammerhead both look brown and other things just don't pop how I want them to

I guess i should have been more specific. I am definately not changing that actual fixtures. I need to change the bulbs. I dont know if 15k 250w are ok or if i should do 10k. Not sure what kind of t5s to get either. Super Actinic Actinic+ etc...

So it's time to replace the lights in my tank... Just curious what you guys would recommend. I dont know anything about this as the tank came with the house i bought and was already setup. It's a 300 gallon tank About 8 feet long. There are 4 250w HQI bulbs evenly spaced along it as well as 8 t5's. 4 t5s on each side. I pretty much need to replace the entire lighting setup. Any advice helps.

I know where his lair is... but there are about 3 pieces of liverock on top of it... Do you think if i took a net put it over his lair and then used a turkey baster to shoot soda water into the hole that he'd come running out into the net all nice and easy like ? sorry hi jacking your thread...

i have one in my 300 gallon tank... if you can get it out you can have it. **** i hate that thing being in there.