caferacermike

The pumps are $20 at Aquatek, last time I bought one they were. The pumps tend to only last about a year or so. Not sure why the shaft is plain steel instead of stainless. I was dosing kalk and it was rough on them.

I never received a PM nor a call back. I spent my wad elsewhere. Sell it all to Bio.

I sent a PM for 2 and 3 about 20 minutes ago.

Looking to restock after the loss of my entire tnak a few months back.

Wanting SPS and some LPS and or anemones. I'll take some zoas but not too many. Really want some Duncans to start growing out again.

Nothing has to be show piece size. Small but appropriate, ie: no JG 1/4" frags that die when you glue them. I'm looking for quality and quantity, I want to diversify as quickly as possible. I miss my Acans, Duncans, and my scroll corals the most. Monti's are high on my list as well as chalice. I need a small piece of meteor shower cyphastrea as well.

I have absolutely nothing in my tnak at this point but white rock. I seeded a couple of weeks back and now I'm seing some worms, pods, etc moving around.

To keep it civil, please reply back via PM with your offers.

Thanks, and I really appreciate any help at this time.

Mike.

You can get some @ Harbor Freight. Also, Prof supposedly has some.

Not supposedly, fact. I purchased them for over $400 for the set. I have them on permanent loan to Dave. These are the professional glaziers 8" Woods cups, not Harbor Freight garbage. Harbor Freight does not sell a quality suction cup for carrying tanks.

Brian you say you got some of the dual cup style? From where? Unless you paid some real money for them, I wouldn't trust a tank move with them. The ones I bought are truly a professional option. I loan them out when needed.

I absolutely would never, ever, move, nor be involved with, move a tnak that is not fully drained. Glass tnaks are not designed to be moved. The seams can easily shift, the bottoms are designed to evenly displace the weight over a large surface, etc. You have a serious risk of dropping the bottom out of the tank. It will be a huge mess if it should happen to break.

They have been closing for the last 7 years. Ever since they moved from one corner of the shops on Airport to the other corner, long before they moved to I35 with their catchy signs.

I'm a pipefitter by trade, as in that's how I've been making a living for the last 18 years. I'm NICET ceritified and I'm registered with ASCET. I can assure you that primer is unnecessary in what we do. If you were running a line that is under pressure from your house line to your fish room, then yes use primer, plumbing in your gravity fed sump, no. Your piping is all open ended and has practically no pressure whatsoever.

As far as 80psi? That's the normal operating pressure in a city. All new housing meters are set to restrict at 80psi. As you move farther away from the pumping station you may see less than 80 but the average in th area is about 75psi. I lived in downtown ATX for several years and our water pressure was 125 during the day and 140 at night. The house was about 80 years old so not many safety devices installed. Being as that my job is to verify pressure and volume in the use of automatic fire sprinklers, I take certified readings all over town. I also test and repair backflows, noting the pressure at each test station. There are some areas around the hills of loop 360 that easily reach 125psi and higher.

I hate to say this but this thread reminds me of when I got my 400g tnak. The seller listed the 400 becuase he had got himself a new tnak of 720g. the 400 was for sale for about 3 weeks and then quickly became not for sale, a couple of months later it came back up again. I decided to buy the 400 and that's when I heard the story about the 720. He ordered it 36" wide thinking it would fit through a standard door (obviously not a carpenter or mechanical kind of guy), also it was 36" tall. Well when the new Starphire tnak arrived they couldn't get it in the house. He had to sell it and bought himself a 900g tnak instead, cept the new one was only 32" wide.

Oh wow an idea from my way past.

I reframed my ceiling to lower it to about 18" above the tank, then installed 3 solar tubes through the work and through the attic. I spaced them evenly to light up a 400g tnak. The idea was that I was just going to build flaps around the tnak on hinges attached to my work so that they could just be opened. The panels would have replicated the original canopy almost exactly. Then the foundation cracked and the rest is history. I still have the "nook" with the tubes installed, it now has a small table under it. The amount of light tat poured into the tnak was amazing.

Thank you all for the replies thus far. I won't be PMing back right away. Work handed me a night job a couple of months ago and it's kicking my butt, add to that I was forced to make a drive to Phoenix and back in 38 hours over the last weekend and you can bet I'm hurting. In what little time I have awake I have to get a vehicle inspected and then get it registered. So I will PM closer to the end of the week to see if we can get together over the weekend.

At which?

Not sure if you have done the deal yet or not. I lost everything in my tnak a few months ago and I'm trying to rebuild. I want about a dozen cukes in there.

Ducati... Nice.. better post pics..

what model, Im a Buell man myself.

So my favorite Ducati at the house Paul Smart replica Sport Classic 1000DS LE,

My little Ducati 250 Bevel,

Her Ducati M600

The Ducati S4RS I'm cleaning the garage for,

Timers have been spoken for, will if not picked up.

Huh? I've been making posts all morning giving things away in the free section.

No no meeting.

Cleaning garage all day for new Ducati Sunday, an annual event.

So yeah, blah blah blah RO/DI, blah blah, leaked by, something. Blah blah, stuff... Sucks...... Freshwater blah blah, water pouring out front door.......blah blah blah. DEATH. Blah blah stuff, sterlized...blah blah. stinks to holy high hell and back... Blah blah 4 months, blah blah cycled.

So ok you get the jist of it. The tnak is clear and ready to go again. I'll be on a little less than I used to but I'm looking to restock everything. If I ever hooked you up, please if you can make a frag,,,,, Blah blah blah....Good day,

Sunday is new motorcycle Sunday, can't wait.

I lost my tNak back around October. Yes very sad and all. It happens. Move on.

I'm betting that for the most part the worst is over. I have a 75g tnak full to the brim with the whitest rock you ever saw. I have 2 snails. 0 copepods.

What I'm looking for is small amounts of your sand bed, golf ball sized rock, old coral skeletons that have been in your tnak. Things with life on them that I can use to add biodiveristy. I'll also gladly take any overstock of snails, hermits, sea cukes, whatever.

I'm also on the look out for free or nearly free frags. Does not need to be "top shelf". I need some "dither" corals to check out the status of the tnak. No softies, maybe some zoas. I'll be coming back with my usual heavy LPS, SPS, and anemone style display. If you have any LPS that look like they might be dying, those would be perfect. If they die, then the critters on the bottom of the skeleton that came in with the piece can populate my tnak. So win/win, if it recovers I got a coral, f not I got critters.

I'm willing to buy a nice Duncan frag. I had a huge mess of about 200 heads that died and it really bummed me out. If I can get 1 head soon, then maybe in like 3 years I can has a nice colony again.

I have 2 digital timers for free. They are a GE wall plug that you program. I used them to operate 2 part pumps. They worked great.

They need batteries, I think they use a AA battery and it lasted 2 years before they stopped displaying.

Everything was picked up long ago.

So about 4 months ago my RO/DI shutoff developed a leak, probably from hard water deposits, well needless to say one day I left the house and came home to a freshwater tnak. I lost everything, I mean everything. I don't have a pod alive in my tnak. I've been letting it sit clearing up all this time. I do need to rebuild and it's about time to get started.

Until then, look for me giving away lots of stuff as I clean my garage.

I have about 2 quarts each of the BRS mix yourself 2 part. I'd say that will make at least 4 gallons of solutions. My mixing and holding jugs are old and will be thrown away, you just need 2 1 gallon jugs to follow the recipe. The dry chemicals have "hardened" but as the directions say, they are still good, just need to chip it out of the containers.

There is also a Magnesium supplement, Another 2 quarts. I'll even toss in 3 gallons of dry Kalkwasser powder (you will never be able to use it all, I promise)

My guess is this is well over $100 worth of stuff.

I really need you to get it today, the 18th as I am clearing out the garage for a new motorcycle that will be delivered here tomorrow morning.

Did the media canister get picked up? If not I would like a chance at it.

Whatever happened to CASH? I've never once over drafted an account, probably because I've never had a checking account. Nope I pay for everything with cash or I draw teller checks from my credit union if it needs to be mailed in. I use my credit card and paypal to pay bills online, or to make online purchases, and neither are tied to my accounts. That way they cannot sneak in and make a grab for my money. I send in a teller check once a month and pay off the credit card bill every month. Well I can say my methods have worked well for 20 years and I plan to make it work for another 40 or so. As long as they keep printing cash, that's the method I will prefer. I have a savings account with Austin Telco credit union and they've always treated me with respect, have never made an attempt to charge me for anything other than when I ask to print out more than 1 check per visit or when I asked to have records printed out (records were $1 a month to print and each check is $1). The small inconvenience to need to visit the CU once a week to print out a check to be mailed sure beats recurring $35 overdraft charges and possible impact of a negative credit report. Notice I did say "inconvenience". When you visit a grocery store the prices are cheaper than the corner store right? They call them "convenience stores", you pay for the convenience. The banks think you don't mind paying $35 for the convenience of using your debit card.

The original poster made a comment about having 4 separate accounts and how he was outraged by the fees. I can relate to the feeling but at some point you need to man up and realize that dude you have 4 accounts at the same bank. I can understand why they would charge you maintenance fees for that many accounts. Simplify your life. You don't need that many accounts. You say that you and the Wife have an account together, does that mean that she also has several accounts somewhere else? As in, a total of 6-8 accounts to manage? I have 1 savings account to keep my liquid cash in and 1 401K that I divert 25% of my income into. That's it. My GF saw how I did it and decided that for whatever reason that she had 3 different banks wasn't working anymore, and switched everything to 1 USAA online account that offers free checking and a savings account. She can pull cash from an ATM for free and can also make deposits at any credit union free of charge. She no longer gets random charges and loves the "scan a check feature".

Wish list fulfilled.