ahreno

issues on firefox for me too... mac book pro... nav bar is centered and body of text is below it... do you know xhtml/css enough to get rid of tables?

have any photos?

would you take $30?

would you deliver? i think my tank is to a point i can add them... going to check with nyles to make sure... if you'll deliver, i'll take them

are any of them good/bad?

are these still available

Not sure how to tell the difference.... i'm new! hope these pics help...

pics of the clam?

i was asked for some current photos... here they are... it actually looks worse than it is, haven't quite figured out how to take good photographs of the tank... http://picasaweb.google.com/ahreno/CurrentFishTank

i definately am not rushing into restocking the tank... i have no money to do it with now... and when i do, it will be slow... starting with a clean up crew.... thanks again to everyone that has helped me out even if it's just sympathizing!

the rock is nice, and i have no complaints about it other than the fact that the right side is loose, there were a couple times where i bumped it a bit and a piece fell down... Took a water sample in to aqua serene (its closest to where i work) and the shorter guy there, whom i can never remember the name of, said the levels look good and he thought it would probably be ok to put new stuff in... i think i'm going to wait till saturday or sunday to see how the levels are and make sure theyre stable.

Just wanted to say thanks to Nyles for stopping by last night... it looks like the tank is starting to pull out of the downward spiral... I skipped doing a water change tonight to watch levels as was suggested, it looks like i've gotten the amonia down from what looked like 2.0 down to .25 and hopefully it stays at that or drops more by tomorrow. I have 80-90 gallons filling with RO right now in case i need to do one last large water change this weekend. so keep your fingers crosses that this is almost over with and i'll be able to start setting up my tank again soon with frags! I"m really debating rearranging some of the live rock on the right half of my tank...

you're both more than welcome to come by and all i ask for in return is to let me pick your brain! After 6 works best for me, but i can get away from work for an hour or so at any time as long as i know in the morning how to schedule my day... I live at the corner of 5th and almaden... and my cell is 285-6329... i think thursday night won't work for me, other than that i'm home (trying to fix up this house...)

thanks Mr. Dong... unfortunately, i dont have any corals left... just some green star things... not sure if they're going to pull through or not... you're welcome to come take a look if you like...

what sort of project am i getting myself into? I don't have a problem doing the framing and restructing for the wall, i have a friend that can help with that, just the whole buffing the tank... the back of the tank is painted black, anyway to get rid of that so the tank is visible from the bedroom as well?

I don't know what a TDS meter is... man, i swear you can take any random three letters and it's an acronym for at least three different things... makes it tough as a new person! I did about 40gallon change last night and the ammonia level seems to have dropped from close to 2.0/1.5 down to .5... i'll check again tonight to make sure it wasn't just because the water hadn't fully mixed up... hopefully i'm on the end of the bad times and can start trying to figure out what to do next... Since i bought the house, i'm invisioned putting this tank in the wall... not sure what that all involves though... maybe this is the right time to do that... i love the tank but it just takes up sooo much room in my small living room. My thinking on it is that i don't have time to dedicate to it right now, the whole building the wall thing... or to dedicate to buffing the tank and curing the algae on the live rock (LR ) so i may just try to get the tank stabilized for now and in a month or so start this project... would that work?

what is a DSB? I was thinking about trying to find a temp home for a couple of my fish, i have (what i consider) a very beautiful (blonde?) naso tang and a couple angels that i'd hate to see get sick... but on the same hand, the tank probably shouldn't be getting worse, only better, so they've hopefully made i through the hard times.

Thanks for the offer Nyles... dstoneburg had very positive things to say about you when he stopped by last night... Think i could twist your arm to come check out my situation (being a newbie in this situation with this big of a tank leaves me scratching my head sometimes)... i could pay or have cold beer and food or i'm open to other trades (work) as well... If not, thats cool too, i know everyone is busy these days especially with the holidays. I might take you up on the gsp offer... i have/had a lot in the tank... it still feels pretty solid but it doesn't open up at all... not sure what to do... if it's dead it should obviously come out, but if it's still alive i'd like to keep it in. I'm not sure what direction i want to take my tank... since all the corral is dead, the option to switch to fish only is an interesting idea... gotta get my tank stable though before i start making those decisions.... So saturday i did 110 gallons or so worth of water changes, unfortunately i did them in 50 gallon batches (didn't take all 100 out at once)... Yesterday i did about 90 gallons all at once and plan to do about 40 or so tonight and as often this week as possible. My ammonia level doesn't seem to be dropping... it's staying right around 2.0 all the other levels (nitrate, nitrite, PH) look fine. i'm sure there are dead things in the tank that i can't find which may be the cause for the ammonia staying up it just seems odd that the level hasn't dropped at all even with all the new water going in.

Thanks for stopping by tonight... and i can't express my thanks enough for that pump! I didn't really get a chance to look at it while you were here but now that i checked it out... thank you much! It was nice of you to come over and check out my tank and let me pick your brain... hopefully i can swing this tank around and have you back over when it's looking good. again, thank you for the pump, let me know when/if you want it back...

Well I dont know if this post will show up or not since i'm still probationary or whatever... If you didn't read my previous introductory post, i'll paraphrase: I just bought a house and it came with a 300 gallon tank and i'm all but a complete newbie. I came home today from 5 days back in wisconsin for the holidays.... 80+% of my corral is dead. I had just added a sea apple before i left and i'm thinking it died and killed all my corral. something definately died and spike my ammonia levels up to 1.0-2.0 ad that caused a domino effect. I think i lost close to $1000 worth of corral - there were some beautiful pieces in there. Almost all the corral is gone/dead... hoping to save some of the green star stuff... but it's not looking so hot. The weird thing is that the fish all look ok... a couple are missing (haven't seen my mandarain fish, a gobie or two) but the naso and yellow tangs look healthy, a chromi or two has some raw looking spots on them and the others (flame angel, lawnmower blenny, coral beuty, clown etc...) are still alive. So today i had aqua serene come check it out and Austin helped me figure out what was dead and what might be close to salvageable. then i proceeded to do about 110 gallon water change and will do that again tomorrow, followed by some nightly 50 gallon changes through the week. my roommate was watching the tank / feeding and had mentioned to me that the corral didn't look happy but i guess there was a major communication error to the degree of the unhappiness... no more roommates watching the fish tank! I almost cried when i walked in the house and saw it today... i feel so bad and ****ty. I know $1000 worth of corral may not be that much to some of you, but for me it will take years to replace it all! If anyone wants to come see the tank and offer their tips i live over near 5th and polk... pm/msn/aim me for address... i'll be around all day sunday.... would love to meet some other fish people in eugene... aim: ahreno msn:ahreno@hotmail.com

Howdy... this is my first post here... been looking for a good saltwater forum for a couple months and stumbled across this forum thanks to dstoneburg and his sale. So let me introduce myself before i get to the point of my post... I'm 27 and just bought my first house... i was extermely lucky in the fact that the house came with a 300 gallon reef tank... Established for about 1.25 years. I had a 55 gallon a five + years ago but only had it a month or two before i had to move... so needless to say i'm a newbie. I've spent a lot of time in Aqua Serene, Pet time and Liquid Sunshine trying to learn as much as i could the past couple weeks... the house is old and a definite fixer upper so i havent been able to dedicate as much time as i should to learning this hobby... This tank is supposedly a dream in terms of equipment... i'm not knowledgeable to go into detail but everyone thats seen it has remarked on the quality of equipment and how it's setup... Here are a couple pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/ahreno/Fishtank02