Need Advise on possible Cadlights purchace

[gshamusphoto]

I need a bit of help. I am a fresh water guy with two 65 gallon fresh water setups. I have been looking to get into salt water for a while now. I am looking at this used Cadlights setup can anyone help on weather is is worth looking into or stay away from.

https://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/for/d/holly-saltwater-fish-tank-cadlight-125/6848772270.html

 

[Ron Reefman]

I don't see anything wrong. I had a CADlight 120 system for a couple of years before a chiller failure to turn off killed a full tank of sps corals! Then I sold it and built a 40g cube that is full of zoas and rock flower anemones.

I liked the tank fine, learned to love the euro brace as a shelf while I worked in the tank! The stand is pretty good quality and all things considered, I liked it as well as the Red Sea system which was almost $1000 more new. My system was the tank, stand (white), glass sump (weird design), a Jebao like return pump, a reasonable skimmer and all the metric plumbing (I replaced). that was like $2300 delivered.

I sold the system with much better plumbing than it came with, but the plumbing and sump of the system you are looking at is much better. I also had 2 Photon V2 (32") leds ($590 each). I forget what I sold the entire system for... probably because it was too cheap and sold fairly quickly! ;Eggonface

Does this one have a skimmer? A return pump (make)? Lights (make)?

Feel free to PM me if you want to discuss offline.

 

[DanInMichigan]

If I'm not mistaken that's @djray77 's pimped out cadlights system. If so you can read his build thread here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/pulled-the-trigger-on-a-cadlight-125-artisan-ii.327482/ I don't think he's reported any problems with it. He's had it up for sale for a while now, and I see the price has dropped since originally posted to michiganreefers. If I hadn't already ordered my aquarium I probably would have snapped this one up.

 

[jtl]

That is a very good price. I have the Cadlights 100g tank but I built my own stand and sump because I didn't like theirs. I think I paid about $800 for the tank.

 

[FO_Reef]

If the glass is in good condition I would say that is a really good price (but I would offer $850 and see what they say). It doesn’t look like the lights, skimmer, or return pump are included, so I would do some research on how much you will have to spend on those 3 main things before buying the tank.