DavidK

There is an AirGas on 82nd in portland and one in south vancouver that are both open on saturday mornings if you don't find anything near by.

Sold. Thanks.

I have two aqamai kps wifi controllable wavemakers for sale. I ran these for a few months on a 40 gallon breeder before breaking it down and they have sat in the box ever since. Paid $240 for these from world of wet pets over in beaverton. Asking $100 for the pair. 

If no one comes up with anything, get one of those 4 cube organizer from ikea. I used one in my son's room for a 20 gallon and it held it just fine. We bought bins for the cubby's and hid everything in there. 

48 minutes ago, SALTY said:

Is this still available?

Yes, it's still available. If you would like to take a look at it shoot me a message and I can give you my number and address.

I have a marineland 60 gallon cube with everything needed to get it running. This setup was used for about 9 months before I upgraded to a reefer 350 and has sat in my garage ever since. Everything was cleaned up pretty good before storing. Available for pickup in Hillsboro, OR. $500

Comes with:

60 Gallon Marineland Cube

Home built stand.

Eshopps R-100 Refugium sump

Maxspect razor r420r light.

Sicce syncra 3.0 return pump

Bubble Magus Curve 5 protein skimmer

2 100watt colbalt neo-therm heaters

2 Jebao pp series wavemakers.

Tons of filter socks (8 are new)

A box of previously used rock.

On 6/28/2019 at 7:24 PM, MrBret said:

 

What might these guys be? I might have to drop in and see these in person. 

On 6/26/2019 at 11:45 PM, CrabbyCrabs said:

You must be heading where I am, safe haven, lol. My trip is only longer as I do it with my 02 Tahoe (220k miles) pulling a 7x16 enclosed. The trip tonight was all my empty tanks/stands and my 2500lbs tool box and a bunch of other stuff. Probably 4k in trailer plus my 350, 60 cube, 170, TV, and other stuff in back of Tahoe. Pulled ok with no weight distribution hitch. Couldn't do more than 65 without killing mileage/high revs. 

If you do the open tote, grab some Saran wrap and wrap the top up to help slosh. I was kinda thinking the same idea. 

We are headed over to the Nampa/Caldwell area. We looked at a lot of places in the area and decided we want to buy a place near Lake Lowell once our house sells. My wife and I are Portland natives but are moving to escape how "awesome" Oregon has become lol. 

On 6/27/2019 at 11:46 AM, CrabbyCrabs said:

Are the styrofoam coolers going to leak if directly filled with water?

That answer is typically yes. I would see if there is some sort food grade bag that is big enough to line them with. 

Lots of good info in this thread. Once our house sells I am planning on making a similar trip of about 7 hours to Idaho. I have a reefer 350 as well and keep debating if I want move it or just sell everything. I was thinking about buying one of those 150 gallon stock tanks and tossing it into the back of my truck then removing all the rock from my tank and setting it in there and then siphoning all the water out and into the stock tank while removing all the livestock as well. During the summer months I think temp will be fine and was going to put a battery pump in for circulation. Since it would only be about 2/3 the way full I would hope that the water wouldn't slosh around too much and was thinking about putting a fine mesh net on the top just to keep things in and road debris out. I was just planning on putting everything right back in and topping off with water that I have already made at the new location. 

5 hours ago, Vance164 said:

the wet spot had their eel I believe stolen it was on the news a few years back. 

It was a puffer. 

I can vouch for vibrant in a SPS dominate tank as well. I was traveling a lot and slacked on my maintenance and had a GHA and bubble outbreak happen. I tried fluconazole along with manual removal. The fluconazole would kind of work about 2 weeks in, but the algae would come back during week 3 so I tried doing water changes every two weeks and just redosing but could never fully get rid of it. After a constant battle for a few months I did literally 2 doses of vibrant and my tank was 100% clean in a week. The advantage of vibrant is you can keep your skimmer and media running. 

3 hours ago, Exodus said:

I see your using a Keesil H80, what spectrum do you have it set to,  about how far off the water surface do you have it, and whats your thoughts on Cheato Growth? I have been using one for a few months and it might be positioned a little high but I running it on 100% intensity on 55 (between Growth & red) and I'm not really impressed with what I'm seeing, was thinking about upgrading to an H380 and from other reviews online it seems others might be having issues as it is only 15W.

I have it set to 100% on grow and its about 2 inches off the surface I usually keep a baseball size of cheato and it will grow to fill the whole ato tank in about 3 to 4 weeks and then I toss the excess and start over again. I have ran 3 different lights on various sumps I have had and this is by far the best growth I have seen but it is also the most expensive of the lights I have run on a sump. The others were the eshopps curve and a magnafuge. 

 

Also had some time to visit @MrBret while I was downtown getting my haircut and picked up a couple zoa frags. Speckled Krak is still doing good. Thanks again for the coffee cup!

Well life got busy so have not had time to post any updates. Finally got the red sea screen kit together. The flush mount profile looks clean.

I have been using all red sea test kits for the past few years and just picked up a hanna ALK checker during BRS's Black Friday sale. Works great and saves a ton of time if you check frequently. I read mixed reviews on the other checkers though. Some people say results are inconsistent and others say its user error. 

47 minutes ago, youcallmenny said:

I just put the BRS screen kit on mine.  I couldn't find the first party red sea one. Where'd you find it?  Also what light are you using for the wire cabinet?  Trying to decide how to light mine up. 

I got it from https://www.saltwateraquarium.com/. The seem to be one of the first retailers in the US to get them. This was my first order from them and they ship fast. Only took two days to get here. 

For the cabinet lights I was in a hurry to get something down there so I just went to home depot and picked up a couple of these https://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-18-in-Battery-Operated-LED-Utility-Light-27510/205972249. They work out pretty good. I was worried about them being battery operated but so far the batteries have lasted 3 months with almost daily use. The only thing I would change would be to get the ones with motion sensors. 

Got one of the new screen kits from red sea today. Even though the pictures showed cutouts for the light brackets, I guess you have to order the cutouts for those seperate so i wont be able to assemble it until then. On a side note this kit seems top notch. It's hefty aluminum and better quality then the kit from BRS I was running on another tank. 

On the red sea facebook group there are a lot of people using filter cups instead of socks and they are running this stuff called poly-fil from walmart in them. Haven't done it myself but its way cheaper then filter floss and apparently reef safe. 

Right now I have a curve 5 on my reefer 350. I swapped it over from a tank I tore down until with the intent of upgrading to the nyos but its working surprisingly well so I haven't upgraded it yet. If you do decide to go the curve 5 route let me know as I have a spare one laying around that was only used for about 4 months that i could part with cheap. I have been keeping an eye out for a good deal on a Nyos 160. 

4 hours ago, HexaReef said:

Update. Got home from work today and water is more cloudy And fish are stressed.. (blue damsels turning black). Water parameters are perfect

Can Bacteria Bloom make the fish stress out? And wouldnt a bacteria bloom cause an imbalance in water parameters?

Thank

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It can, and it can also be the cause of the cloudiness. Try boosting your surface agitation if possible to see if it helps or maybe try an airstone to get some oxygen into the water.

They have a few at upscales. I have picked up a 1" from there.

Here is a picture of a cut BRS 4" sock in the tray. I compared it to a uncut sock and it looks like i trimmed it right at the very first ridge.

I can' rememer off hand but I remember it was quite a bit more then I could get them from BRS but I needed to make water and couldn't wait.

9 minutes ago, youcallmenny said:

You mind taking a picture of what you did?

Not at all. When I get home later I will snap some pics. If I rememer correctly I cut it right at the last ridge in the ring with a pair of dikes.

While i was waiting for my extra socks to ship I trimmed the rim off a few of my old standard filter socks and they work just fine in the reefer bracket so I still keep them in my rotation.