detroit, huge tank wanted

[tony detroit]

Like I previously stated

Leigh, don't feel bad that guy needs all the advertising he can get

Whatta piece, he should pay whoever takes it for putting that in their house-:eek:

[leigh]

I'm confused--i was talking about the 600 gal i posted the info on for you? is that one a junker too?

[tony detroit]

whoops!!!

I never saw that post, sorry:eek:

Was that on trader online???

[leigh]

yep the bargaintrader one...if you get it can i come visit :)

[tony detroit]

don't think I can fit it down the stairway to the basement.........:rolleyes:

[leigh]

why's it gotta be in the basement?

[tony detroit]

I want to put the 300 that's in the basement in the living room, which is pushing it as is with the 180weight wise. Then I want to put the new tank in the basement for the sharks/rays. Plus a 600 gal aquarium would be almost 3x of my 180's as far as weight goes. I guess you could call me addicted. I'm just running out of money for all these darn tanks. I just spent 3k on the stuff I ordered for my 300.

-Have you been to Tropicorium in a while???

[leigh]

nope, unfortunately, i keep getting tied up on fri/sat/sun...wish they had some weeknight hours! i think you should build a sunroom with a solid foundation--no basement under it--and put the 600 in it and invite all us michiganders over to visit it :D (wow is it easy to spend other people's money, he he)...seriously, a 180 and a 300 in the living room--that sounds pretty sweet!

[tony detroit]

BTW...

what did you decide to do with your nano lights?

[leigh]

oh, i rigged one of the 13 watt pc's into it...not enough light for sps or clams (as i'd originally hoped)...but works good for shrooms and caulerpa. i've had caulerpa in there for a week and just yanked out a handful an hour ago for my tang...put a shroom in there this morning so we'll see how it does. so what kinda sharks are you going to put in the new 300? and what's in the 180? the other 300 is a reef right? or do i have things backwards?

[tony detroit]

The 180 is going to be strictly reef. I'm going to redo it once I get my 300 going in the basement. I did a lot of impulse buying when I first started out and have a 2 foot banded cat shark in there and a stingray. They're going in the 300 with a coral catshark which I own but is at the lfs with a deposit on it, and possibly an eel and another stingray. Maybe a Harlequin Tusk and some lookdowns as well. I just hooked up an RO/DI about a month ago and want to make my reef upstairs very professional, I am fighting a ridiculous aiptasia problem right now, every time I try peppermint shrimp my shark eats them along with everything else. I have about 200 dollars invested in his stomach.

I'm also planning on doing a seahorse tank at the end of the hallway to the bedrooms, possibly a 65 bowfront, but I'm still doing a lot of reading/research on them. I see you do engineering. I studied at Michigan Tech for two years but decided to call it quits. I tried getting into UM Ann Arbor, but I partied a little bit too much in high school instead of studying like I should have and didn't get in. I just went to Day One today and they have the cheapest prices on livestock I have ever seen. They're in trenton if you are ever in the downriver area.

[leigh]

Hey--yeah, peppermint shrimp are terrific lil aptaisia munchers. Once you get to move the shark I'm sure they'll fix up the problem quite well. Seahorse tank would be sweet. I wanted to do a lil office nano for them but found feeding the dwarfs to be too daunting. I wish I could do a big tank for larger seahorses that'll eat frozen foods--they're so unbelievable graceful looking!

Michigan Tech is a great school. I did a job interview where about half the other people in the group the company flew down (it was an oil company in texas) were all from Michigan Tech--the techies seemed often times to be the smartest ones in the room... That's funny bout U of M--after all, once you do get in they care most about how well you are able to party on football saturdays :D Day One eh? Never heard of it...where in trenton are the? Maybe I'll swing bye there next time I drive out to romulus.

[tony detroit]

South side of West Road, just before you get to Fort Street, when heading East on West Road. (that must be confusing you, they just had to name a street "west rd." in trenton)

Anyway they're very cheap, I'm mean 30 dollar powder blue tangs, 50 dollar Harlequin Tusks, 8 dollar banded shrimp, 10 dollar anemones, 11 dollar seahorses, 120 dollar leopard sharks, 20 dollar Huma Huma's, 15dollar mandarins, etc. Not the greatest store in the world, but their livestock prices are very cheap compared to anywhere else I've been, and I have been to a lot of fish stores.

The Fish Tank on Ford Rd. is another great store. I buy everything from them now, except for the occasional plumbing stuff from Home Depot which is right around the corner. Their store isn't huge, but they can order almost anything for you, and the owner and his gf are very nice, and will give you good advice. And it is by far the cleanest store I've ever been to. Spotless.

Outta curiosity was the oil company Marathon/Ashland???

[leigh]

Cool--thanks for the tips. Nah...I was actually interviewing with Schlumberger--very interesting company--awesome people--sometimes regret not going to work for them--if I'd have taken any job then it would've been with them but I chose to come here for grad school instead :)

And a clean fish store? Isn't that contradictory? I'm trying to envision a clean fishstore. Nope, can't do it...how puzzling. I'll have to drive out there just to see that. :D

What do you do in 'environmental services'? Protest oil companies like Marathon and/or Schlumberger? :D

[tony detroit]

No protesting here, actually do contracting/ various jobs/ sales/ supply/ transport for oil companies and other waste generators. I had a buddy that went to work for Marathon/Ashland from his last job. He's in Kentucky now.

The Fish Tank is always the cleanest store hands down. Pretty small, but always nice looking stuff and will custom order anything for you. Pretty reasonable prices as well. The owner Scott is pretty good guy. He's tall mid 30's usually there on the weekends. He has two jobs right now and doesn't have enough time to work the store so usually isn't there all the time.