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The only unfortunate thing about Matt posting the newer pics on here is that it doesn't do the tank justice in the photos! This tank is awesome to see in person. Hopefully I can do as well with my new tank as Matt has with his. *Crosses Fingers* Wish me luck Matt. Killer tank man. Matt Compton

All SOLD...Thank you! Matt

I have a New In Box Gen-X 6000 submersible pump. $50 obo. Matt 503-737-9540

I have a couple NEW unopened buckets of Kent Marine salt for sale. $40 each. Matt 503-737-9540

I bought a box of bulkheads from a guy that closed a shop down a while back and they are just sitting around collecting dust. What I have and prices (package deals available): -(24) 1" bulkheads...bulkhead only.$6 -(8) 1/2" bulkheads...bulkheads only. $5 -(5) 1" bulkheads with 90 degree elbow and protector screen. $8 -(4) 1" diameter NPT Monster Venturi's...will accept any NPT pipe thread from Home Depot or Lowe's...etc. $15 each. -(2) 3/4" one way flapper valves. $10 each. If someone wants the whole box I'll make a great deal. Let me know. Matt

30 gallon eclipse tank drilled with overflow. Black back, black silicone. Stand is painted black with red trim. Acrylic sump, return pump, skimmer, heater, T-5 light. Nice set up. I used it for a long time for a QT tank. Also has about 25 pounds of rock in it. If you want more rock I can also sell you more rock at $2 per pound for my basic stuff and I have really really nice stuff with corals and stuff on it for $9/lb. It's a lot I know, but you have to see the rock to understand. Askint $200. I've also got a little 15 for sale that was a QT tank. I have a large canister on it and did water changes a lot. I want $75 for tank, stand, about 10 lbs rock, heater, and light. Let me know if you are interested...I'll get pics up late this evening. Matt

I have several usec PC lights. Most are about 6 months to one year old and in good shape. I have two dual bulb 36" units...$60 each or $100 for both. I have a single bulb 36" unit $40. I have a 48" four bulb unit as well...$120. All prices are obo. I also have several other items I am looking to get rid of from pumps (new and used) to tanks (used). I have a 110 gallon custom glass setup for sale. $750 obo. It is 96 long, 13 deep and 22 tall. It is 1/2 " glass on all sides and 3/4" glass on the bottom. It is on a custom oak stand with matching canopy. I have a dual 250 watt Halide ballast and cheap reflectors that go with it. I also have a workhorse ballast and end caps for T-12 actinics and two new bulbs. Has a 40 gallon glass sump. Has a skimmer rated for 200 gallons. I have all new hinges for teh entire setup. Stand has moveable shelves in both ends. Very cool tank for someone with a long space but not a lot of depth from the wall or for someone with an apartment. Where the 1000 lbs of water and contents will be spread out over a longer portion of wall than a standard 110. I also have a 200 gallon acrylic tank made of 1/2" material with a blue overflow box and blue back. Tank is on an oak stand with matching canopy. Has two dual 175 watt halide ballasts and all the reflectors and lights. Has a skimmer (homemade but good quality and very large), UV sterilizer (it's either 25 or 27 watts...I can't remember at the moment), cooling fans in hood, substrate, two power heads, and more. Asking $1250 obo. I have a lot of other stuff too...I need to thin out the collection. I have a big box of new bulkheads. I think they are all 1". I have Venturi's for making your own skimmer. I have new nets. I have Reef Chemicals. Help me clean my garage out. I have a couple new buckets of Kent Salt...like I said...it keeps going on and on. If you want pics of the tank/s or have any questions, please email me at my email address...I don't check this often. My email is aquariansaltwaterllc at yahoo dot com. This is not a commercial listing. I have no store. This is all my personal crap for sale.

Sorry for not responding to any of your posts...I forgot this was even up. I was told they were Yuma's...however I'm probably misinformed and you are probably right that they are giant hairy shrooms...however, there is no blue on them. They are Pink and green...I have a crap camera. It messes with the color. I'll frag one off and take it in to West Side and ask Tim what the heck it is. I'll post back up here in a day or two...I have a couple tanks to move before I can post again. Thanks for the info guys. Matt Aquarian Saltwater LLC

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Hit me back and let me know if you're still interested Kris. Thanks. PM'd you as well. Matt

Darn...I wanted to see pics of that 60 lbs of LR in a 15 gallon tank!!!

I have a large piece of live rock with lots of Yumas on it. Rock is about 14" lont 8" or more wide and 3-4" thick. Approx 20 Yuma's starting at about 1.5" across and up to 3"+. Mushrooms are pink with a green undertone to them. $175 obo takes the entire rock. The shrooms sell for $60+ in stores and we all know how much LR is. I also have a slightly smaller piece of LR with cabbage corals on it. It's about 12" long by 4-6" wide and 2-3 inches thick. There are 15+ Cabbage corals on it. The cabbage corals are pink as well. $150 obo. Sorry for the poor picture quality...I'm a blind man with a crappy point and shoot...what can I say? Thanks for looking.

I have the following fish, aquariums and corals for sale: A 3" Panther Grouper $20 A 10" Snowflake Eel $20 A 4.5" Pencil Wrasse $30 A 4.5" Twin Spot Coris Wrasse $40 *PENDING* A 28 gallon Bowfront drilled in bottom back left corner. Black trim. $25 *PENDING* A 29 gallon standard tank. Wood trim. $20 Large Piece of Live Rock (approx 15"x9"x4") Coverd in large Green/Pink hairy Mushrooms. There are 15+ mushrooms on the rock that start at 1.5" across and go up to 4"+ measuring across the top. $200 I have several other large Green/Pink Hairy mushrooms. $20 each. I have Pink Cabbage Corals. $20 each. I have several 5 gallon buckets full of Aragonite Sand. Approx 75 lbs or so per bucket. $25 per bucket. 30" PC light fixture. Coralife. Dual straight pin 65watt bulbs. $80 obo. 36" PC Light fixture. Coralife. Dual straight pin 65 watt bulbs. less than 4 months old. $120 obo. 36" PC Light Fixture. Coralife. Single 65 watt Straight pin bulb. $80 obo. Custom Glass 110 gallon aquarium on oak stand with 45 gallon acrylic sump. Tank is made of 1/2" thick glass. Measures 96"x13"x22" on oak cabinetry with matching oak canopy. $600 obo as is. I will be refinishing entire system and adding new skimmer, new lighting, painting back glass black, etc etc, at that time I will be asking $1250 for it. Very nice tank. Must see to appreciate. Email me with your email address for pictures of the tank. 400 Watt Sun Light Supply Metal Halide Ballast with Built in timer. $75 Please PM me with your normal email address for pics of what you are interested in. I don't want to fill the forum with too many pics on my sale ad. Thanks for looking.

I can tell you all the secret for these guys...I had some myself. They are very closely related to the purple tilefish. You MUST keep them in groups of 3 or more. They are social eaters. I bought three at one time. I didn't lose a single one. When they are excited or scared or really happy (eating) they flash many different colors. When they are calm they are this really cool purplish blueish irridescent color with yellow edged fins. I started out feeding mine Cuclop-eeze and then transitioned them to meatier frozen foods and herbivore foods. Mine all shared the same cave in the tank and after a couple weeks of being in the tank became quite social and were out in the front of the tank most of the time. They are amazing little creatures. They do not handle high water temperatures well. That's how I lost mine. My roomate decided to turn the air off on a 100 degree day and the tank got up to 82 degrees F. I lost all three that day. They do great up to about 78F though. I keep my tanks at 74F usually, unless I have a species specific tank that has special requirements. I lost many many other fish that same day, so I know that is the reason I lost the Flashing Tile Gobies. Unfortunately. They were quite entertaining to watch. I Nicknamed then the LSD Gobies. =0) If you have a well established tank with a good six months or more of track record and a deep enough pocketbook to swing getting THREE or MORE of them...then by all means do it. You will not be disappointed. Matt

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This is a Royal Pencil Wrasse (Pseudojuloides Severnsi) First picture. Asking $50. I found them online for $40-45 for fish that are 2-3". This guy is 4"+. He eats everything and is a pretty cool fish. Great colors on him. He's currently in with a mated pair of black ocellaris clowns and a blue hippo tang. He leaves my hermits and shrimp alone. He's pretty cool. He eats anything you put in the tank too...from frozen to pellet. The picture is not of our fish...ours has slightly more pink in his mask. I like our fishes' coloration better. Very close to picture however. I also have a Twin Spot Coris Wrasse (Coris Aygula) second Picture. These sell for around $65 on the sites for 2-3" fish. Mine is 4.5"+. $60. Great looking fish. *SOLD* Finally I have a mated pair of Black Ocellaris Clownfish. I WILL NOT SEPERATE THE CLOWNFISH FROM ONE ANOTHER...DO NOT ASK. $125 Firm. *SOLD* Matt

Here are a few easy steps that you can take to alleviate some of your cyano issues. Feed your tank regularly for a few days leading up to this. Take a piece of airline and use it to create a siphon. Vacuum as much cyano off the surface of things as is easy to get to. Continue this with the removal and changing out of approximately 25% of your water. You can then cover your tank completely with a large towl, blanket etc. Leave it covered for 2 days. DO NOT PEEK. The cyano is partially photo synthetic. This will help to kill off the majority of the cyano. What is left over will be mostly dead. Things that cause cyano are as follows: 1) As was stated earlier, overfeeding the tank causes high phosphate/nitrate/nitrite levels, all of wich 'feed' the cyano. 2) Running your lights for too long. It is photo synthetic and the more light it has the more it will grow. Cutting your full lighting back by even an hour or two a day can drastically reduce the reproduction of the cyano bacteria. 3) Water flow is important. Especially at the surface of the water. Agitating the surface of the water helps oxygenate teh water. This helps the good bacteria eliminate many of the harmful phosphates, nitrates, and mitrites. Agitating the surface of the water also changes the way the light functions on the photo-synthetic process slowing the growth rate of the cyano. 4) RO/DI water...The filtration process removes many of the nitrates and mitrites naturally present in the water. 5) Good Filtration/skimming. Just another step in removing those nasty unwanted nitrates/nitrites/phosphates. 6) Here's one not a lot of people talk about. When you thaw your frozen fish food. Rinse it with RO water. There is often a lot of extra nitrite and nitrate present in the frozen fluids your foods are packed/frozen in. 7) Plants and natural Algaes. These help by eating those same nitrites and nitrates as food. Therefore removing the food source for cyano. I hope these tips help you with your cyano issues. I had a small 10 gallon Reef tank that had a bad outbreak of cyano when I was first learning about reefing. It was due to the Nitrates in the food I was feeding the tank. The thing that worked best for me was to vacuum the rocks and sand off and cover the tank for two days. After that all I had left was a small trace of dead black stuff that was easily removed with air hose and a toothbrush. Good Luck. Matt

Skimmer is an ETSS...not sure the model. There is no pump, but the skimmer has never been used. It is a larger one rated for 275 or so gallons I believe...don't hold me to that though. It's rather large. About 6" diameter chamber and is about 23 inches tall. Has integral bio-ball chamber as well. Matt

Tank Measures 96" long, 13" deep, and 22" tall (just the glass) I don't have the height of the entire tank on the stand, I will try to get to the garage tonight and measure how tall it is including the stand and canopy as well. I will also distinguish the actual stand height and the actual canopy height for you. Matt

Forgot to add...I didn't buy it, It was given to me. I'm not sure if it was new or used at the time. That was about 8 months ago. Matt

Here are the pics...sorry the outside pic of the ballast is hard to see.

Here is a pic of it, it is a 3 stage. Not sure of the make and model.

Shrinking them down now so they aren't HUGE-NORMOUS!!! Give us about ten or fifteen minutes. Matt

*SOLD* 50 GPD In good condition. $75 *SOLD*

*SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD* I have the following three colonies for sale (Feel free to make offers...prices were there as a starter point...let me know what you think they are worth): 1) Outer ring is Brown dusted with a dark Emerald Green and have Electric Green (Neon green) eyes. Has 18 plus polyps or eyes. About 3" long 1-1.25" wide. $80 obo 2) Outer ring is Emerald Green and Fades to an Electric Green Color in the center of the polyp or eye. There are 18-20 polyps or eyes. Approx 3" by 3". $80 obo 3) Outer ring is Brownish-Purpley-Blue with a Sky Blue eye that has a Purpley Blue smudge in the center that is darker. 17 plus polyps or eyes. Measures approximately 4"x2" . Asking $80 obo. Will Sell all 3 for $200 as a package!!! These are ALL AUSTRALIAN. I apologize for the photo's, our camera is not of great quality. These are NOT under Actinic lights. and will have much better color with more. I have one 50/50 bulb over them. They look much better with Halides and actinics overhead. PM me for contact info or to come see them. Matt