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02-14-2008, 08:46 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 98
|  Picking up a new 75 gallon tomorrow
I'm making a trip to World of Fish in Minneapolis, MN tomorrow to pick up a new 75 gallon tank and stand, I'm also taking most of my tropical fish to trade in, I sure do have a lot of freshwater fish. Already sold one of 55 gallons, just waiting on selling the other one to get my 75 up and running, but I do have to break down 2 55 gallon tanks and rearrange my dorm room for the 75, also getting my cpr overflow, korallia 3, purple up, and mag 9.5 tomorrow from petsolutions.
Price of oak tank, glass lids and strip light, $159
Price of pine stand $139
mag 9.5 $65
cpr overflow $100
Total about $465
Craigslist the strip light and putting my 2 150 watt halides over the tank and making it shine
Priceless!
Always wanted to do one of those
I can't wait to put everthing together and finally see water flowing through it. Its going to take me awhile to rearrange my dorm room and I know to take lots of pictures. _________ 75 gallon, Coralife Super Skimmer 125, Penguin 350 20h sump mag 9.5 return, 72 pounds of Live rock, Outer Orbit Pendant 10000k 150 watt metal halide, Outer Orbit Pendant 14000k 150 watt metal halide, (aquac ev 180, auto waste conatiner 2.5L,tunze osmolator 3155 top off) soon to be installed  | 
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02-14-2008, 09:37 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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Ouch...75 gallon for a dorm room? --- hope you plan on staying there a while. At least thru grad school to make it worth while. These tanks are not easy to move and must be attended to 24/7 year around.
Guess there goes your spring/winter/summer breaks also.
A reef tank takes a good deal of care, maintenance, and responsibility.
Just be sure you know what you are getting into.
Keep us posted on how all goes... "Om"  "Reef on" _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (Davis Family Reef Aquarium - Home Page/Reef Log) (Best Photos of 2008!) | 
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02-15-2008, 12:01 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 98
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I'm a resident advisor, so I pretty much at work all the time in my room, and I've been in the same building for the last 2 years and last 2 summers so I won't be moving for awhile maybe in another year and half until I graduate. I finally did take a vacation for 11 days over winter break, all my tanks did pretty well, didn't lose anything in my 29 gallon saltwater, did lose a 2 mollie in a 5 gallon that had a bad case of ick and 1 african cichlid that my brother pawned off on me the day of my flight. I was thinking about it constantly for those 11 days though. I'm going with the 75 because I'm getting out of freshwater, maintaining 2 55 gallon freshwater tanks and a 29 gallon tank requires a little bit of work, at the beginning of first semester I had 2- 55s, 2-29s, a 10 and a 5 gallon going, now that was work, but I wanted to go all saltwater to make my life easier, focus all my efforts into the 75.
By the way does anyone have a job for me when I graduate in 2 years? lol | |
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02-15-2008, 09:47 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Wisconsin
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traded in most of my fish and received a 80 dollar credit, got everything i needed and then sum, just have to pick up some plumbing and get started on putting it together, took down 2 55 gallon freshwater tanks in about 3 hours, boy was that work can't wait to post some pics of getting it setup | |
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02-15-2008, 09:59 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
Posts: 850
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Good luck with your tank, and keep us posted with some pics!!!!
That is, unless you are at University of Wisconsin!!!  Beat my Hoosiers twice this year 
Guess we kinda deserved it considering our coach is a big CHEATER!!! Wish it wouldn't affect the kids, though _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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02-15-2008, 10:07 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Miami,Fl
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Originally Posted by bmshehan  Good luck with your tank, and keep us posted with some pics!!!!
That is, unless you are at University of Wisconsin!!! Beat my Hoosiers twice this year |  Thats pretty funny. Post pics anyway  _________ 90 gallon tank with center overflows, 44 gallon custom sump/fuge, Tek T5 retrofit 4x54 bulbs, Reef Octopus nw200 protein skimmer, Iwaki WMD40RLXT return pump (changed to panworld 100pxx),Knop c ca reactor, PA light house controller.
Click: Real-Time Stats 
^^ Testing it out! Ill add more param.. later. | |
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02-15-2008, 10:15 PM
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| | Caribbean Reef Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
Posts: 2,879
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Can't waite to see some pics....
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5.5 gal, 72w of pcs, 2 leds, rio nano skimmer, 40 gal hob filter, 50w visi-therm heater, 5pds lr, 1 inch live sand bed, 1 true perc ,1 porcelain crab, tuxedo urchin, 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, rd/blue blastos, neon grn bali slimer acro, ROB, 1 grn 1 purple tipped frogspawns, feather duster, purple, and orange rics, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, cndycane corals, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | |
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02-15-2008, 11:29 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami Age: 39
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Good luck with your new adventure. You know you can count on us if you need help. Luna _________ 9YR OLD 90G 30G w/d Mag18 150G skimmer 692w MH,yel&kole tang,foxface,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Goniopora(2), Acropora(2),Brain, Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, R&G open brain, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, enias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew  | |
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02-16-2008, 08:27 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Wisconsin
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