You know how sometimes you just "fall" into a deal? Well, this one FELL on ME!
90 gallon oceanic reef ready, stand, sump, skimmer, dual 175wattMH with t5 actinic lighting hood, all rocks, sand, water and fish just fell into my lap for $500!! WOO HOO!
Anyway, after 14 hours of moving time, settling, literally fist fighting with the rock, and a couple of weeks to settle in, this is the result:
I added the elegance coral (which is loving that tank, its opening up twice the size as it was in my other tank) and the anemone (in hopes the clown will host it).
The tank came with a yellow tang (which has some "battle damage", but is healing nicely), the sailfin tang, a clown (percula? ocellaris? who knows...) a purple gramma, neon goby, 2 camel shrimp, a skunk cleaner shrimp, and one nasty evil little black and white strip damsel (regretting putting him back in the tank!! shoulda kept him out while I had him in a bucket! LOL!). But, I added a small huma trigger which oddly enough has been keeping the damsel in check and bothering no one else. No one else in the tank seems the least bit concerned with the trigger, so the balance has been temporarily restored.
I'm not usually one for bow fronts, but I couldn't pass up the deal, and it's turning out to be a really nice tank. It ran for about 3 or 4 years before I got it, so everything was relatively unphased by the move because it was pretty stable prior to. I did eliminate about half of the sand, and did about the equivalent of a 40 to 50% water change through losing water, and inability to transport all of the water. So far, coming along nicely! Just thought I'd share!
90 gallon oceanic reef ready, stand, sump, skimmer, dual 175wattMH with t5 actinic lighting hood, all rocks, sand, water and fish just fell into my lap for $500!! WOO HOO!
Anyway, after 14 hours of moving time, settling, literally fist fighting with the rock, and a couple of weeks to settle in, this is the result:
I added the elegance coral (which is loving that tank, its opening up twice the size as it was in my other tank) and the anemone (in hopes the clown will host it).
The tank came with a yellow tang (which has some "battle damage", but is healing nicely), the sailfin tang, a clown (percula? ocellaris? who knows...) a purple gramma, neon goby, 2 camel shrimp, a skunk cleaner shrimp, and one nasty evil little black and white strip damsel (regretting putting him back in the tank!! shoulda kept him out while I had him in a bucket! LOL!). But, I added a small huma trigger which oddly enough has been keeping the damsel in check and bothering no one else. No one else in the tank seems the least bit concerned with the trigger, so the balance has been temporarily restored.
I'm not usually one for bow fronts, but I couldn't pass up the deal, and it's turning out to be a really nice tank. It ran for about 3 or 4 years before I got it, so everything was relatively unphased by the move because it was pretty stable prior to. I did eliminate about half of the sand, and did about the equivalent of a 40 to 50% water change through losing water, and inability to transport all of the water. So far, coming along nicely! Just thought I'd share!
