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Sale is pending. The buyer only wanted certain items, mainly livestock so I will pass along everyone's interests and perhaps he can get with y'all on individual items.

Thanks everyone!

Brian,

Belinda and I hate to see you take a break but we all need one now and then.

Bump for a heck of a set up and a great guy.

Thanks buddy, y'all are two of my favorite fish heads!

having seen this tank in person several times, I can attest that it is very beautiful and the pics really don't do it justice.

Given the super lovey golden retriever (not pictured), I can see why you'd want to get out of the hobby!!

Thanks Mark but having gotten out of the hobby twice before I've come to realize it is obviously just a break when I do it, no matter what my intentions are. The problem is, each time I get back in - I go bigger!

Well, so far I've had offers for the tank, sump, Wavebox, Aquacontroller, calcium reactor, multiple SPS offers and an offer for all livestock and live rock! Whoohoo - thanks guys! I will definitely keep you all in mind if um... I change my mind and decide to part out. Ha! Or y'all could get together, come by, take it all and then divvy it up. FOR NOW, still hoping for a package deal.

I've been on the fence about this for a while now but the time has come to take a break from this wonderful hobby and so I'm parting with my 180 gallon setup. This has been a labor of love and much work and fun went in to the cabinet building, rock sculptures and stocking the tank. We're very fond of these fish, most of which we've had for over 4 years and want them to go to only the best of homes! This is a very complete setup and includes about everything you'll need to create a beautiful live reef in your home.

I added up what I thought were cheap used prices on individual items and then knocked off over a thousand dollars because I really don't want to go to the trouble of parting out at this time. Asking $2400.

Brian

Hardware

180 gallon glass tank from Kingfish Aquariums - overall good condition with just a few minor scratches. It has a back center overflow and euro-bracing. Dimensions are 24x24x72

75 gallon sump - 3 sections

Custom, tall (40 inches) solid Oak Cabinet with raised panel doors and canopy

SWC Skimmer with Octopus Pump. This is a big skimmer that has been modified with an upgraded propeller

Croralife Turbo Twist UV sterlilizer (18 watt) with pump

Purely H2O Optima, Fully Automated Ro/Di 4 stage unit

Bulk Reef Supply Dual Stage, GFO and Carbon Reactor

Dual ATO w/ float and solenoid

Neptune Systems Aquacontroller 3, Expansion Socket, DC 8 (DC 8 needs repair).

Korallin C3002 Calcium Reactor. 5 gallon CO2 tank (full) and dual gauge regulator (recently serviced)

Eheim and Mag 9.5 return pumps

Tunze 6215 Wavebox with 6091 Controller and 2 magnet holders

3 Hydor Korallia circulation pumps

3 Sunlight Supply Lumenmax Elite reflectors. See this article by Sanjay Joshi - http://www.advanceda...m/2009/1/review

1 Sunlight Supply Dual 400 watt balast. 1 Single 400 watt balast

ARO Ballast and 3 tube VHO setup

American DJ Switch board

2 canopy cooling fans

2 coral frag magnet racks

2 Mag-Float magnet cleaners - large & medium

Cleaner Vac with tubing

2 plastic trash cans

Misc. Chemicals and Test Kits

Livestock

Regal Tang - gorgeous, show size

Salifin Tang - show size

Yellow Tang - Medium size

6 line wrasse

Sand Lawnmower Blenny

Mated pair of Hawk Fish!

Mated pair of black and white Clowns

2 Genicanthus Melanospilus reef safe angels (one started out as a male - now resembles the female)

1 Bellus reef safe angel female

1 Bartlet's Anthius

1 eyelash Blenny

1 Cleaner Wrasse

1 yellow Watchman Goby

4 medium green Chromis

2 Rose Anemones - Beautiful, large size directly from renowned aquarist John Coppanella. Home to the clowns

Several SPS - * these are not currently showing best color due to lazy reefkeeper (me) pearlberry, purple stag, stylophora, digitatas etc.

Tons of zoanthids - mostly Eye Of Rah

Assorted Mushrooms

Huge monitpora caps in green, orange and purple

Duncan colony - many heads

Candy Canes - many heads green kryptonite and blue

Brain - red with green center plus another multilobe red

Clam crocia

Tyree neon green toadstool - 2 large heads

Frogspawn - multiple heads

Blastomussa - neon and red lg and small head varieties

Acans

Cypahstrea - Meteor shower

Chalice's

Approx 200 lbs Premium Live Rock "structures/sculptures". These are attached to plexiglass platforms.

See this link on photobucket for pics on the rock work building project. http://s66.photobuck...January%202010/

Hey Brian, everything is wonderful. The big tank was taking a lot of my time away from Belinda and the kids. I realized the other day that I was obsessing with trying to perfect our tank and it never came remotely close to my expectations. A lot of people said they liked it the way we had it. I never did and always had my hands in it, constantly feeling the need to change the landscaping (so to say) around. That was evident by the things we were always selling (ie rock, coral and sand). So much for stability. lol A lot of our ARC and MAAST family have great success with large tanks and they enjoy the profound rewards that come with it. I'm just not one of them. I think it has a lot to do with my personality. My priority is my family, not my hobbies. I simply lost my focus. Chris Fowler purchased the tank. I know Chris will make it into something I could not. He has what it takes to do it and I bet spend a quarter of the time I did doing it. I am looking forward to a great looking, smaller tank. Sorry for being long winded. I wanted to make sure folks understood exactly why we did this. We are still as passionate about this hobby as ever.

Hey guys, that's sad! Hope y'all are doing ok.

OK, good - glad y'all are doing well! I certainly understand about the time, not to mention trials and tribulations that come with a big reef tank (I question my own sanity on a regular basis - LOL). Also glad to hear that you are going to continue to be involved with the clubs on a smaller scale because it wouldn't be the same without you!

Hey guys, that's sad! Hope y'all are doing ok.

I think my regulator may be kaput! Please let me know if you've got one available.

Thanks!!

Anyone know where I can get reasonably priced servicing on my CO2 regulator? I had my tank refilled and when I hooked up my regulator it started having problems. The timing is strange since it was working fine before the refill but now one of the gauges appears to be malfunctioning. I've been to Home Brew and they couldn't help. I can't seem to find anyone in Austin that will service CO2 regulators. Airgas ships them away and the price is high.

Please let me know if you have any ideas where I can get servicing or a new gauge for the regulator.

Thanks!

Do you have a pic and price on the Rommel's Rainbow?

Sold. Thanks!

OK, maybe it is not "with GREAT sadness" but I've had this really nice Toadstool Shaped live rock for quite some time so this offer is bittersweet. My montipora caps are encroaching on it's territory and so I must let it go. You don't see many live rocks that are nice stand alone pieces but this one is. It is appox 4 inches wide by almost 12 inches tall and has a definite toadstool shape to it - but that's not all! It is adorned with "over 200" Wammin Watermellon zoas, a few Radioactive Dragon Eyes, about 50 Pink Panthers and over 20 purplish colored mushrooms that glow neon green under actinics!

Just asking $75 OBO. Would consider trade for SPS but it would have to be pretty tempting.

I've seen Brian's tank, very nice corals. Great aquascaping too.

Thanks Stephen! I still need to come check out your setup - good excuse for another trade.

nice and healthy looking! I need to find some time to visit your reef someday soon.Heres a link to a zoa thread I started I plan on posting some more pics in the coming weeks

http://www.austinree...h__1#entry93434

Thanks Mike, you're welcome to come by. By the way your zoa thread is amazing!

how about some pics or a link

Mike, my previous coral photos probably scared more people off than lured them in! I really need to put in some research on it. Having said that, I'll try and locate my digital and shoot some current shots later. In the meantime here are a few older shots. Let me know if there is somethng in particular you would like to see. Also a few I forgot - Pink Champagne, green millie (looks like the sunset millie) and spumosa - these last two are encrusted frags. Do you have some pics for me?

I am always interested in trading for nice corals!

I have available for trade - Tri color Acro (a really nice brilliant royal blue), Pink Pocci, Green Slimer (frags and colonies), Green stag with blue tips, Purple stag, Nothern Lights Nasuta, Pink Jade, Pavona Cactus, Orange and Purple Digi (nice frags) Ponape and purple polyp Bird Nests, Red Planet, Pink Lemonade, JG Yellow, Green (more of a brown) Pocci, Skittles Stylo, red, purple and green monti caps as well as Christmas Tree and Eye of Rah zoas (some larger colonies available). And for the right trade could cut Pearlberry, Meridiana or Lime in the Sky.

For a limited time, with any trad I'll be giving away a free "covered" frag of zoas until they are all gone because they are overgrowing my frag rack and I'm sick of them.

Brian

I just cut a couple red planet frags earlier this week. I have a small one 1/4 - 1/2 inch that I would sell for $15.

Zoas are overgrowing my frag rack so I need to share. Covered plugs are $10 no matter the number of zoas - mostly green stars with brown skirts (christmas trees), big green palys, orange w/ brown skirts. Larger pieces w/ Eye of Rah available at 25 cents per zoa. SPS avaiable too - several kinds. Large rock with half Eye of Rah and half green palys (more than you can count) $50. Trades are welcome!

Sold

Ace, thanks for keeping your northern counterparts in mind. I think I may be working that weekend but would hate to miss this! Any idea what the hours are going to to be?

Thanks, Brian

P.S. Lonestar ~ Marine ~ Aquarist ~ Rally L*MAR COOL Name

We should be posting up the schedule in the next few days, but it will be an all day event. Registration will start at 8:00, first speaker will begin at 9:00 and we will finish up after 5:00 and be out by 6:00. Hope you guys can make it (OU weekend, notwithstanding!)

-Kristy

(MAAST Event Coordinator)

PS: Glad you appreciate the name!

Well... if you guys are starting that early I guess work is totally out of the question! Ha

Thanks Kristy

I have a credit from the Reef Hot Spot worth $99.99 that I would like to sell for $75. It's in the form of a coupon code and guaranteed to work - by me. I got it on a Livestock guarantee a while back and haven't had occasion to use it. Reef Hot Spot has a large selection of fish including some that we don't see around here very often. They just happen to be having a Labor Day Weekend sale going on through Monday which even includes free shipping on livestock orders over... you guessed it - $99.99! Now tell me that's not a good deal.

Ace, thanks for keeping your northern counterparts in mind. I think I may be working that weekend but would hate to miss this! Any idea what the hours are going to to be?

Thanks, Brian

P.S. Lonestar ~ Marine ~ Aquarist ~ Rally L*MAR COOL Name

No, sorry it's sold.

Is this still available? I am interested.

Good trade Mike. Hope the corals do well for you.

Thanks, Brian

Yes, I have pink tipped frogspawn, a brown with white tips torch, zenia, zoas, palys and mushrooms available. You may be able to do ok with digitatas - I have orange and purple and you might do ok with a green slimer. What are you looking for and what is your lighting?

I may take you up on that, I happen to have one of each and only need one. You have any lower light corals?