I am so excited - I have always wanted a big reef tank but was overwhelmed with the cost and the detail of getting one set up. Well, a friend of mine who has a 55 gallon tank is moving to OH and will be in temporary housing while they buy a house there. I asked what they were planning on doing with the tank and she said she didn't know - sell off in parts and dry the LR out with them to bring to OH...or try and sell the whole thing. I asked about the price and it was very good - $700 for all of it, including 4 fish and a quarantine tank!
We were going to do the move over after they got back from a house hunting trip in a couple of weeks but they have a few other big projects lined up for that weekend so she asked if we could move it this weekend. They are going to start bringing the quarantine tank over and some of the water from the tank and then we'll see from there if we have time to do the big tank today or wait til tomorrow.
I don't know much about the tank other than it is very self sufficient. I am not sure exactly what filtration he's got on it but there is a good amount of live rock and the 4 fish and a purple sea urchin. No corals as the lighting is just the stock lighting.
The fish included:
Clownfish (not sure if it's perc or ocellaris)
Red Firefish
Citron Goby
Lawnmower Blenny
...and the urchin.
Livestock to come at some point:
Mate for the clown (the one is a good size, I'll get a small one)
3-4 Spotted Cardinalfish
a basslet of some sort or wrasse
I'd also like to get soft corals going so am looking at a lighting upgrade.
For now, I am going to have to be content with the tank as is b/c I had to pull some strings budget wise and with my husband to get the OK to make this purchase!
I had a nano reef going for about 18mos with no fish loss and only lost a few corals, but then my son, who was around 2 at the time, maybe 3 (now almost 7) decided to "help" me feed the fish by pouring in the whole canister of food. It was as we were on our way out the door so I didn't notice what he had done. We were gone most of the day and by the time we came home, the entire tank was green and everything was dead
I was devastated and didn't have the heart to resurrect it. Now, he's almost 7 and my younger son is 4.5 so they are both old enough to understand DON'T FEED THE FISH! My whole journal is actually back in the nano reefs forum - I was reading through it last night and it really made me miss my little tank - I had the CUTEST little bitty clownfish......
Pics to come as we get it moved in!
We were going to do the move over after they got back from a house hunting trip in a couple of weeks but they have a few other big projects lined up for that weekend so she asked if we could move it this weekend. They are going to start bringing the quarantine tank over and some of the water from the tank and then we'll see from there if we have time to do the big tank today or wait til tomorrow.
I don't know much about the tank other than it is very self sufficient. I am not sure exactly what filtration he's got on it but there is a good amount of live rock and the 4 fish and a purple sea urchin. No corals as the lighting is just the stock lighting.
The fish included:
Clownfish (not sure if it's perc or ocellaris)
Red Firefish
Citron Goby
Lawnmower Blenny
...and the urchin.
Livestock to come at some point:
Mate for the clown (the one is a good size, I'll get a small one)
3-4 Spotted Cardinalfish
a basslet of some sort or wrasse
I'd also like to get soft corals going so am looking at a lighting upgrade.
For now, I am going to have to be content with the tank as is b/c I had to pull some strings budget wise and with my husband to get the OK to make this purchase!
I had a nano reef going for about 18mos with no fish loss and only lost a few corals, but then my son, who was around 2 at the time, maybe 3 (now almost 7) decided to "help" me feed the fish by pouring in the whole canister of food. It was as we were on our way out the door so I didn't notice what he had done. We were gone most of the day and by the time we came home, the entire tank was green and everything was dead
I was devastated and didn't have the heart to resurrect it. Now, he's almost 7 and my younger son is 4.5 so they are both old enough to understand DON'T FEED THE FISH! My whole journal is actually back in the nano reefs forum - I was reading through it last night and it really made me miss my little tank - I had the CUTEST little bitty clownfish......Pics to come as we get it moved in!
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ah, you have been found out - looking forward to the photos.
