Great tank. Lots of BANG inside the small space.
Thank you sir, I am on the second floor of a rental house that I live in with some friends. The house was build in 1912 or something like that so the landlord will not let me put any bigger than a 55 gallon up here. When i move out, it is upgrade time
Keep up the tank - it's looking great -
Thanks. Yeah, I know very few people on campus that have tanks. My roomate that lives directly below me has a 125 FOWLR, but rather than that, I only know of one other guy. As I am sure you know, it is a pretty expensive hobby for students.
I'd love to know how much you have spent on equipment thus far.
This is going to be pretty tricky to answer as I have bought and sold a number of different things along the way. But here is a basic idea.
I bought all this for $400 off of craigslist: Items with prices next to them are what I ended up selling them for.
120 lb. LR
75 gallon tank $50.00
Life reef sump $215.00
Life reef VS3 48'' protein skimmer $250.00
2 x iwaki pumps $150.00
temperature controller BROKE
Magnum 350 canister filter $30.00
Random filter
2 x heaters
2 x 175w halides, 2 x 40w florescent actinics
overflow box
power head
Stand
20 Gallon tank
A few of these items broke and the guy refunded me $300, so at this point, I have made $895 for purchasing and selling random parts of this unit. So basically, through a little creative buying and selling I have acquired the following items:
75 gallon wood stand
2 x heaters
over flow box
2 x 175w halides, 2 x 40w florescent
120 Lb. Live rock
20 gallon tank (QT)
random filter
So I have the above items and have made $895.00 in profit so far and then purchased the following items below from the internet, craigslist, Phishy Business, and local reefers:
Poseidon PS4 pump $170.00 SOLD $100
55 gallon tank $55.00
Aqua medic controller $60.00
Auto top off $65.00
Auto top off pump $15.00
Milwaukee PH controller $105.00
Life reef calcium reactor, #10 Co2 tank, solenoid, pump, and pressure gauges $200.00
2 x Koralia powerheads $60.00
Dual media reactor w/pump $70.00
Aqua EV-120 Skimmer $120.00
Queit one 3,000 pump $50.00
Quiet one 5,000 pump $95.00 Need to sell, used 2 weeks, any buyers? lol
Mag 7 $30.00
40G breader $50.00
40G breader $70.00
Glass pieces attempt #1 $36.00
glass pieces attempt #2 $30.00
Lowes: Misc, pvc, etc. $300.00?
2x150w stealth heaters, (QT and water mixing) $50.00
75 GPD RO/DI $140.00 (split with roommate, $70.00)
Moon lights $25.00
Water mixing bin $10.00
35 gallon trash can (RO/DI water storage) $16.00
20 gallon top off reserve $10.00
Refractometer $35.00 (split with roommate, $17.50)
PH pen $20.00
TDS meter $20.00
GRAND TOTAL W/sales $-824.50
That is obviously not including changing halides which I have done once, carbon, GFO, Bionic, fish food, test kits (HATE BUYING THESE!!), corals, fish, clean up crew, shrimp, anemone, crabs, glass cleaning magnet, or ummm...hmmmm...there has to more stuff I have had to buy for this hobby, SALT!. I don't want to include into the costs yet, but I think I am about to buy a 1/8 hp chiller from someone for $115.00. Hopefully it works out because I hate stressing out about my window air conditioner shutting off like last summer. I came home 3-4 times to a tank that was over 86 degrees :-/
Anyways you get the point. This is a very, very expensive hobby. The more stuff you can wait and find a good deal and buy used the better. Unfortunately with most of my purchases it was something that I needed to buy right away and was not able to buy used. I did, however, get the protein skimmer, calcium reactor w/tank, soleniod, pump, and pressure valves, all used for a great deal. This saved me at least $600.00 altogether on these two items. I am
I seem to be procrastinating from studying for a midterm, need to go.
Let me know if you have any other questions, I would be more than happy to answer them.
