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Sorry, but even if I decide to part it out, I would not separate the stand and tank... I'd keep those together because I designed the stand for this tank basically.

This is all located in NE Salem Would greatly prefer to just sell this as a complete package to someone. Basically everything (hardware) you need to get started - tank, stand, leveling mat, lid, sump, skimmer, heater and heater controller, return pump, wave pumps, lights, rock, sand, salt, testers, monitor, plumbing and fittings, even a utility pump for pumping water out of your big brute garbage cans or whatever I collected all of this stuff over time a few years ago while I was waiting for my daughter and grandkids to move out so there would be room to setup my tank. After the moved out and while rearranging the house, I started getting paranoid about whether the floor would hold the tank, so I paused while I looked into that and other life crap kicking my rear, and now my daughter and grandkids are moving back in. I'm not going to have the room to set this up, and I'm tired of having everything just sitting. It makes me sad to put it up for sale, but it makes me sadder to keep looking at all of it, knowing I'm so close to my reef tank. Maybe eventually when they move back out, I'll have been able to save up for a red sea reefer or other package or something and finally have my tank. There's almost too much to list here, I may forget some odds and ends. Almost all is brand new and either unopened, opened to inspect but not used, or in the case of the eflux flow pump was used for 2 weeks to circulate water in a barrel with rocks to clean. A couple items like the RODI and sump I bought used and cleaned up or rehabbed. The materials for the stand alone, plus the tank, were right about 2k. All total, I have well over 3k into all of this. 90 Gallon starfire 36x24x24 center overflow tank from SC aquariums - brand new still in the original packaging and on the pallet it was delivered on Custom designed and built aluminum extrusion stand 24 x 48 (oversized for the tank, was in case I decided to upgrade to a larger tank), very heavy duty, has 4 heavy duty casters with leveling feet, 1/2 inch HDPE shelf for the bottom, 3/4 inch HDPE for the top, assembled with strong anchor connectors, with a cutout (and bracing) for the center rear plumbing, so you don't have to have plumbing sticking out the back - used to store tank items 1/4 inch self leveling adhesive backed foam aquarium mat from BRS - new Red Sea DIY net tank cover + extra corners/clips - brand new Trigger systems emerald 26 inch sump - used when I bought it, could use a cleaning but nothing terrible IOAOI DC skimmer with controller and power supply - new Inkbird wifi smart controller with 2 temp probes - new BRS titanium 300w heater - new Current USA eflux 1900gph DC return pump with controller - used for 2 weeks circulating water in barrel with rocks 3x eflux 1050 GPH accessory wave pumps - brand new 2x orbit marine ic pro 36 inch lights (for 36 -48 inch tanks), loop controller, rimless mounting arms for the lights - hooked up once to turn on and make sure they worked then disconnected again. As I learned after I bought them, the lights probably wouldn't be sufficient for anything but a soft coral tank, but they're still working lights that will integrate with the eflux pumps and the loop controller and smart phone app. Of course the pumps can integrate and use the loop controller without the lights as well. If you don't want to use the lights, you can just control the pumps together with the app, or set it once and forget it. 2x koralia 240 gph circulation and wave pump - brand new Sicce ultrazero utility pump - new brand new PVC tubing, various elbows, connectors, unions, gate valve, soft braided tubing, all new and from BRS Length of soft silicon tubing to go between pump and plumbing for vibration isolation - new, from brs Ratchet clamps for soft tubing Barracuda RODI unit - used when I bought it; replumbed, filters replaced, dual probe TDS meter added, plus a bag of BRS mixed bed DI resin Seneye reef monitor - new, opened, unused Hanna Reef Professional Kit, new but the reagents are certainly expired by now. Refractometer, calibration solution - used once Aquablade tank scraper - new New Unopened tub of Tropic Marin Pro-Reef New Unopened 40lb bag of Ocean Direct sand - obviously not live after sitting for this long New Box of Marco Rocks and unopened tub of marco aquascape bonding mortar, BRS thick gel glue, bottle of coral dip - all unopened. Not sure if coral dip expires? Also have some loose rocks that have been sitting outside on a table that I had started to work on trying to build some aquascape, from the marco rocks, that can go with Have an old dilapidated tub of rocks I had gotten with an old lot of used stuff as well - these were soaked in a barrel with a mild bleach solution for a week with a pump circulating, then rinsed, then put through 3 rounds of soaking in plain fresh water with a pump circulating, then draining and refilling with fresh water, spraying off in between. They've been sitting outside, but they are welcome to go with the lot as well.

I think you'd be surprised at what people might want I'm working on getting the last odds and ends of things I'm going to need/want to setup my tank, and I'm definitely on the lookout for a cheapo pump or 2 for mixing saltwater, and pumping saltwater out of the barrel it will be mixed in. Obviously nothing special is needed, just something to circulate water for mixing and maybe one to pump water out of the barrel. When you're ready to get rid of the stuff, let me know... I'm in Salem, but I'd drive down to Eugene to get a pump or 2 for cheap

Thanks for the info. I'd feel a little better if it was mined, but what's done is done I guess. At least when I got it from the guy who was selling all the stuff, it looked like everything had been in use for a rather long time, most everything I got was very old and well used, so its still better than buying it right off the market from someone pulling it from a reef and selling it Only thing left now is finish soaking it, give the pieces a good scrub (I'm sure some of them will need it badly even with the bleachwater soak), and a few rinse cycles and then decide how much of I really need to keep and use.

I haven't decided on anything yet, I still have to go through and see what I end up wanting to use in the tank

Awhile back I bought a used aquarium and a lot of stuff with it, most of which turned out to be broken, expired, or otherwise not usable. Among it were 2 totes of old rock, some of it pretty nasty looking when I got it. Enough to about half fill a 55 gallon plastic food grade barrel. I've got it all soaking in bleach water with a pump for circulation for a few days or maybe a week, before I rinse it all off and soak it in RODI water with dechlorinator. The goal being to see if I can reuse this rock before shelling out a few hundred on new rock for the tank that I want to setup (once I get a few more things, and find a bloody solid wood stand that will fit it) In the pic is a few sample pieces of the various rock I have in there. I'm curious what this rock is - it doesn't look manmade to me, but I'm very inexperienced so I don't know for sure. Can anyone help me figure out what I have here? Something dry mined like marco rock, or is it manmade and just looks like it does due to having previously been used in a tank for years, or is does it look like natural rock pulled from the ocean? I know it probably doesn't matter in the grand scheme of whether I can reuse it or not, I'm just curious

Tank and sump have been picked up

Tank and Sump have been picked up 90 gallon aqueon RR and eshopps acrylic sump Tank still needs a little cleaning, and I personally think it needs to be resealed (but maybe I'm paranoid). Reseal it, take it apart and use the glass panels for something else... whatever. No bulkheads or internal plumbing The sump does hold water, but as shown in the pics, the welds came undone partway down on 1 side each of 2 baffles, but not all the way down. It's a very clean separation so I would think it could be re-welded with the proper acrylic bonding agent Ideally these would be picked up tonight or tomorrow, before it starts raining. I really don't want to move this tank back inside lol. I have it sitting outside on the grass at the moment.

And it has arrived. My heart skipped a few beats when I saw the carton, because it had a nice half oval rip in it on one of the sides, and the styrofoam inside had been slightly mangled and compressed in, but I didn't see any cracks on the glass panel or any sign of damage on the tank itself, nor did it look like the styrofoam was broken through all the way so I went ahead and signed for the delivery. I'm home alone so I can't unpack it right now, beyond getting it open enough to check for damage. It looks like it came with all 3 bulkheads, the primary drain pipe and the return, but not the emergency drain standpipe or a strainer for the drainpipe intake, so I'll have to get those, or reuse some plumbing from my aqueon megaflow kit if any of it will work it's definitely bigger looking than I expected. I'm sure it's just my eyes, but it looks wider than 24 inches to me, in person at least.

Haha I haven't gotten too far into the livestock yet, I know I want a clown or 2 and a tang or 2, for the grandkids. For corals, I'll probably start with some easy to care for softies, make a few islands for some of the things that are hard to contain but are still nice looking like GSP. There's a BRS 5 minute video on beginner corals and I like pretty much all of them, several they recommend to isolate on islands, and they produce a lot of sway which will mesmerize the kids. A good part of this is going to be centered around getting and keeping the grandkids engaged. I want to have things besides just working on the house or working on the car, recreation and what I do for a living (IT work) that I can teach to them and help inspire them... who knows maybe I'll help inspire a future marine biologist or oceanographer

woot, I got a call from the freight company today my tank is scheduled to be here sometime next tuesday. Also picked up a used in very good condition 26" trigger systems emerald sump from a guy locally last night, to replace the old basic eshopps one the baffles started separating from the sides on when I was cleaning it

Hopefully that'll start in the next week or 2, I don't have a tracking number for the tank but SC has it marked as shipped and I got an email notification that it was shipped Probably start the thread with building my stand after the tank gets here and I can get a few measurements to double check my plans and make sure everything is going to clear. I really don't want to burn all my lumber building the stand then find out there isn't enough room to get the bulkhead nuts on past the 2x4 frame rail on the back lol

well now that I've waffled around enough on it (and the 80g seapora lagoon tank went up in price to 701) I finally decided on the SC Aquariums 90g rimless 36x24x24. Ordered it this morning, should have it by end of next week it looks like It had come down to pretty much the seapora or the SC, I think what really sealed it for me was the SC being starfire vs the seapora being regular glass and steve telling me he'd honor the warranty using my own built stand so long as I used solid 3/4 top (except the drain cutout) and self leveling mat. The $99 extra over the seapora was worth it for those 2 things.

Definitely going to be something for me to think about, this will be my first ever reef tank and in a way I'm kinda glad for the snags and pitfalls I've been hitting, as it has just kept me researching while I figure out my way around the latest snag, extending my learning time so by the time I actually get a tank running I will probably have a solid 6 months of reading and researching in haha Only frustrating part about it is I have all this equipment laying around not getting used yet - lights, pump, powerheads, rodi unit etc... I keep looking at it and thinking jeez I want to set it all up!

Not gonna lie, I have been eyeing that seapora. I'd definitely have to build my stand higher than I was planning on for that one though, I was planning on about 36" high on the stand, but that was assuming a 24" tall tank. My only kinda gripe with Seapora is their warranty policy - they warrant it for 5 years if using a stand manufactured by seapora. Using a stand not manufactured by seapora results in only having a 90 day warranty. I know many (if not all) tank mfg's restrict warranty to commercially mfg'd stands, but restricting it to only your own stands is a bit overly restrictive in my opinion.