I'm ready to exit the hobby after taking this tank to maturity... I've started traveling for work again and I have not had as much time for this in my current role. The tank is pretty deluxe, in great condition, has been stable and grown quite lush. I've spent a couple hundred bucks on it every week for 2 years now and it shows, having grown this from a smaller tank. Some really nice mature and highly desirable things in here... Red Sea 500 is 140 total gallons and has the following hardware:
Red Sea 800 skimmer
2 heaters
1/6hp chiller
1 400 watt UV sterilizer
2 AI 26 lights
1 kessil flora sump light on a timer
AI nero
Red sea sump has gravity ATO, 4 media and filter bags and a I run a dsb in the refugium
Livestock is pretty diverse, but as always, I tend to go a bit aggressive:
Australian Marbled Catshark, 1 year old, near full grown at 26", quite docile but well adapted to the tank (another shark egg is incubating right now too!)
Yellow headed moray eel, quite big, 36" or so, beautiful animal but can be hungry for smaller animals that will fit in its mouth
Snowflake eel, 30", not shy!
Scopus Tang, full grown
Flame Angel full grown
Emperor Angelfish, nearly complete transition to adult, still a few colors left for it to be complete, GORGEOUS
3 Lyretail Anthias, 2 female one male in the harem
Domino Damsel, full grown, not too aggressive
Two chromis, that were once intended as feeders and made it to adulthood, now a breeding pair
Breeding pair of Ocellaris clowns
Shrimp goby and pistol in the sump just enjoying their life together
Antennata Lionfish, full grown, eating frozen and beautiful
Full clean up crew and interesting invert collection of diverse inhabitants: conchs, snails, hermits, cucumbers, stars, urchins, tube anemone, all the expected and more
Corals include:
3 Bubbletips anemones, two were split rainbows and one is a gorgeous deep red
massive GSP colonies of two different colors
massive red sea pom pom pulsing like mad all day long xenia colonies
green bounce recordia colonies
galaxia colonies
leathers of various sizes, but these are not your average toadstools
euphyllia colletion
war corals colonies encrusted
Pavona colony
Psammocora colony
various zooanthid colonies, but nothing boring and brown, more like rastas and other collectable stuff
caulastrea colonies of good size
blasto merletti colony
colonies of mushrooms and all the other stuff that you might expect... again, I was at Cuttlefish every friday for a couple years dropping bills, so this is net result of that... lots in there, hard to really offer an inventory.
Essentially, this is a well kept nicely maintained setup, with a boatload of accessories and dry goods run by someone who knows their way around this hobby for a few decades. You'd be wise to take me up on a nice package full of amazing, well cultivated and healthy livestock. My numbers are solid and this thing has been stable for a long time, and it shows.
I'll take $3000 for this if you come and move it, and I'll give a bit of help. Not looking to negotiate on it, so please don't try. Ultimately, this is a smoking deal for someone who wants to part it out, or expand their operation, or start out smart.
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