Zalick

$1000 for tank, sump and skimmer.  No other equipment available or stand. 

I have a 300g acrylic tank made by James Steele (Envision Acryclics). 

it’s designed as a peninsula setup with the overflow on the short end. 
 

dimensions are 72” x 36” x 27”. Same as the mainland 300 deep dimension. 
 

the stand was custom made in Salem for a 300DD against a wall. I modified the stand so the backside is presentable. 
 

tank is on fantastic condition. 
 

overflow setup as a bean animal with 1.5” main and back and a 1” emergency. 

I moved and sadly don’t have room for this setup. 

I also have equipment that I was planning to keep but could be negotiated with the whole setup.

VarioS 6

reef octo 5000 ext skimmer w DC pump

AquqUV 114w 

Tunze Stream 3

Some live rock (25% is going to my new setup)

not looking to part anything out. Tank, stand and sump come as a unit. 
 

** I will sell the tank as a stand alone unit. 
 

tank is currently running but will be empty and dry but will need a clean. 
 

located in Portland metro area. 
 

I can deliver within about 45min drive.

$1700

Nice meeting you and your son as well!

I’ve got quite a bit of chaeto to give away. I received a big ball from Shaywood many months ago and it’s grown a ton.  My excess has been growing in a fish free system for at least 90 days, so definitely ich free. 
 

if you’d like some, send me a PM. I can probably chop it up in two 6 or 8 softball size bags.  

On 5/4/2021 at 9:51 AM, CuttleFishandCoral said:

Sure. Just let me know when ur ready. 

Im back. Can I swing by tomorrow?

23 minutes ago, CuttleFishandCoral said:

I have a meter ready for u. 

Thanks Jeff. I’m out of town until May 8.  can you bump me until I get back?

Anyone know of a place that sells nitrumar ova in the Portland area?

Hey Jeff - would love to be on the list. I can use it and return it to you same day!

thanks,

Todd (Hollys neighbor)

On 1/5/2021 at 5:55 PM, xmas_one said:

I might have two more identical set ups @Zalick.

I’ll have to dig in the garage a bit.

EDIT: I do have two of those same Galaxy ballasts, and two reflectors. The reflectors are not exactly the same, but are very similar in dimension/shape.

Not trying to hijack, I just noticed Zalick was posting looking for three.

Sent you a PM.

I'm ditching my 6 kessil a360s and 4 Mitras LX7.  😵

I'm looking for three 250w metal halide pendants and ballasts. Preferably HQI and Hamilton or Luminarc. 

Thanks!

Still have these? What brand pendants?

On 1/26/2019 at 4:59 PM, Krux said:

Howdy neighbor, also in Garden Home!

 

I've done La Paz, Saona DR and Cozumel, hitting Mona PR, Thomas, Maarten, Nevis, Lucia, and Barbados this summer and hoping to dive at least half of them...

Maybe we need to consider setting up as mutual tank sitters...

That would be great!  I'm happy to tank sit any time.

1 minute ago, SuncrestReef said:

What has been your favorite reef so far?  I've been diving at the Great Barrier Reef, Belize, Hawaii, St. Kitts, and St. Lucia.  So far Belize has been my favorite.  I was disappointed in Australia due to so much bleaching.

Welcome to the group.  Like Holly mentioned above, we love to see photos here!

The bleaching in Australia is very sad and hard to see happen in real time....   My favorite spot was Misool in southern Raj Ampat.  A close second was the outer islands off New Guinea.

1 hour ago, Gil&Fin said:

Welcome, Zalick!  I also live in Garden Home.  I'd love for you to post some pictures--of your tank and of your underwater shots.  There are some amazing photographers here, and every month we have a Picture of the Month with a different theme.  I hope you will make it to the meeting on Sunday at Upscales.  

Holly

Hi Holly, this is Todd.    I will definitely post pics!

On 1/20/2019 at 1:01 AM, pdxmonkeyboy said:

looking at your plan... i would delate fish room altogther, wall of one car slip in the garage for a fish room and put a 10' long in wall tank in the wall seperating the garage and living space.

but i digress, i like huge tanks.


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Agreed!  Your current setup looks amazing of course.  I love my 300g peninsula that divides two rooms BUT if I had the option to do an even longer in-wall tank that extended in to garage...  The one thing I miss about having an wall tank is the extra depth you get by placing rock-work against the back side.  My next house will have an in-wall tank with the backside a dedicated fish room.

I started my first reef tank in 1998, had a 45 hex, 10g and 20 long. Consolidated to the 20 long and ran that until a sea apple crashed the whole tank in 2003.  Was out of hobby until 2010.  Currently I have a 300g acrylic made by James running a mixed reef.  I'm also an avid diver/underwater photographer and my wife and I dive a new tropical reef every year.  This causes a moral dilemma for me when purchasing wild fish.   I no longer purchase wild coral, only aquacultered.

Also looking forward to bringing a little algae to determine once and for all what species has been driving me nuts the last year! 

Looking forward to it.  This has long been my go-to, now with Cuttlefish.

It looks like the innovative marine one would work for your cube.  Possibly would need to modify the top bracket for the sterilizer.

Taken while diving in Indonesia (Misool), not my best job centering!

3 minutes ago, SuncrestReef said:

I already have two 75 gallon water tanks in my garage mixing station that are set up to do auto water changes on my current tank.  I won't have a ton of space available in the new fish room, and the mixing station would take up at least 1/3 of the space, so I plan to leave them in the garage and just run new plumbing from the garage to the fish room.

 

Beautiful setup!

On 1/11/2019 at 7:58 PM, Bicyclebill said:

 

Anyone running one of these? If not, how are you keeping nitrate and phosphate in check? My fuge doesn’t appear big enough to do the trick, and high capacity gfo is expensive. I haven’t tried carbon dosing because it scares me a little bit.

 

 

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I'm in your boat right now too.  Been running GFO but the $$$ adds up fast!  I'm debating running an ATS v.  dosing Lanthanum Chloride...

What size is your fuge? I'm going to initially try just hanging a simple grow bulb over my sump and float a mesh screen.  It will only grow algae on one side, but its simple.

A UV sterilizer will not only help with water clarity but it will kill free floating algae spores, among other things, depending on what UV wattage you have and the flow rate.  Most hobbiests use too small a unit with too high of flow.  aquaUV has a flow chart for each unit to show you what it will kill at each flow rate.

Will a UV fix an algae issue by itself? No. But it will help.  Its a very easy component to add to the system and is low maintenance. 

I have an auqaUV 114w on my setup and run about 700gph through it. Its plumbed to feed the output directly in to my skimmer to skim off the now dead organic matter.  I change both bulbs yearly because they lose effectiveness. 

On 1/9/2019 at 8:58 AM, Bevo5 said:

Doing my weekly water change yesterday and all is going great until I try to fire up my return pump....notta. Nothing. Not even a tiny little hum of the motor trying to get going. So that's not good. Luckily, about two years ago I bought a backup and had it stored in the garage just waiting. Thirty minutes of minor plumbing and back in business. 

Just lucky though. Having to find a new internal pump at 1.5in output etc....under pressure to get everything going again - would've been stressful. 

SO - buy that backup pump now everyone.

I already ordered a new backup. 

Related - it's a Jebao 12000. When I bought it, I wasn't really sure what kind of quality to expect. Well - it had been up running for about 40 months with MINIMAL routine cleaning. I mean minimal - like - just cleaning out the pre-filter. Quiet and moves a ton of water.

Thanks for the reminder!

I just bought backup heaters last week (6) and two days ago 2 of my heaters went out.  I don't have a backup return pump.... Going to order now!

I'm very jealous of your setup!

I have two 100 gallon mixing/RO tanks in my garage. If I built a fish room attached to my tank, I would do everything possible to have those tanks in the fish room.  Makes life easier especially if you want to install an automatic water change system.