Good Deal?

[Skibum]

So I picked up the following for 700 bucks on Craigslist:

Red Sea Reefer 170
CEBU 4xT5 and 25o MH
REEF Octopus Skimmer
ReefKeeper Lite Monitor
2, Ocean Pulse Duo powerheads (not sure if that's a brand or not).
Red Sea Test Kit
and more misc stuff.

Live stock:
Yellow Tang
Kole Tang
Engineer Goby
Some kind of blenny
Black Percula Clown
Scooter Dragonet

Duncan coral (about baseball size)
Small Torch
Bali Slimer stick (half way necrotic since it was laying on its side for who knows how long)
Flower Anemone
Various sponges

60lbs or so of TBS LR
Various inverts, etc.

Water Parms:

Untested as of yet. I was so exhausted I still haven't even hooked up the monitor.

Moving it was a pain in the B*%$ but I made it with the original salt water in tact. Going from Boulder to Breckenridge, over 2 hours water dropped over 20 degrees. I was able to set everything up in around 2 hours and get the pump/skimmer/heater going at least. All the fish made it through the night and ate this afternoon. Personally I thought it was too much rock for this size aquarium so I dumped a few pieces in the sump. A few gorilla crabs also took a ride to the Summit County sewer district.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

amazing deal!

 

[Frop]

amazing deal!

@;Snaphappy it seems the icon doesn't link to your screen name yet =/ jk jk

So I picked up the following for 700 bucks on Craigslist:

Red Sea Reefer 170
CEBU 4xT5 and 25o MH
REEF Octopus Skimmer
ReefKeeper Lite Monitor
2, Ocean Pulse Duo powerheads (not sure if that's a brand or not).
Red Sea Test Kit
and more misc stuff.

Live stock:
Yellow Tang
Kole Tang
Engineer Goby
Some kind of blenny
Black Percula Clown
Scooter Dragonet

Duncan coral (about baseball size)
Small Torch
Bali Slimer stick (half way necrotic since it was laying on its side for who knows how long)
Flower Anemone
Various sponges

60lbs or so of TBS LR
Various inverts, etc.

Water Parms:

Untested as of yet. I was so exhausted I still haven't even hooked up the monitor.

Moving it was a pain in the B*%$ but I made it with the original salt water in tact. Going from Boulder to Breckenridge, over 2 hours water dropped over 20 degrees. I was able to set everything up in around 2 hours and get the pump/skimmer/heater going at least. All the fish made it through the night and ate this afternoon. Personally I thought it was too much rock for this size aquarium so I dumped a few pieces in the sump. A few gorilla crabs also took a ride to the Summit County sewer district.

First tank? Good luck have fun! =] Good price.

 

[Skibum]

I thought it was a pretty good deal, I've been wanting a RS reefer for quite some time, but I couldn't pull the trigger re: the price of the thing. I originally wanted to set up a Red Sea biotope, however this came with all the livestock so... I can't complain. One thing I'm thinking about changing is the lights, having a monstrous 250 Watt MH and 4 T5's is more than enough light but I was curious about LED. It will do for now I suppose, but I don't relish firing up the ballast, the heat that comes with it not to mention the power draw. I was thinking a black box, or maybe a Radion in combination with the T5's would work too. But that's for later, I have to plug everything into the reefkeeper and configure ;-). But that's part of the fun.

Things I want to get:

ATO (I'm thinking the reefkeeper can do this, haven't looked into it though)
BRS 2 Part dosing system

Can't think of anything else.... Anyone might want to chime in. I haven't had a reef in 25+ years. Things certainly have changed.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

I would say a great deal!