WildReef
14-07-05, 17:03
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Okay so we got banned from Reef Central for trying to sell old skimmers I had on my old tanks, they thought I was a store. I am absolutely NOT a store, and I am a little peeved to be banned by the nazi's over there. I refuse to go back there, even if they begged me or offered me money. The guy sent me an email, "go peddle your crap elsewhere." How rude! I wouldn't be surprized if a website reefcentralsucks.com showed up somewhere... You would think they would want someone on their board who imported fish for five years and now is a lowly reefer who has seen it all???
But I wanted to share our latest insanity with people who could appreciate it, and sine I will never post on theor board again, nor can I get ahold of anyone to contest my banning, I will share my knowledge with you guys.
For ten years we have had reef tanks, and about 2 years into it we decided buying retail was ridiculous so we started importing and thought to make a business of it. After loosing ridiculous amounts of money on that enterprize, we are back to being reefers again, for the fun of the hobby. Luckily I still import occassionally for my own tank, and I buy wholesale from the stores I used to supply.
We started with two tanks, a 100 years ago, that went the way of a friend, then a 165 in wall, which then led to a 188 SPS tank, with them tied together to a common refugium. Pics of the old tanks and the new 700 are on my website www.wildreef.com.
After taking care of the two tanks we decided to build the ultimate reef tank. A 700 gallon monstrocity that has it's own room! The tank ended up being a 10'x3'x3' Starfire tank, both the front and the right side are Starfire. It was purchased from InterAmerca a Canadian company. Upon arrival, the bottom was cracked and both the shipper and the builder refused to be held culpable. So it was repaired and now rests in my fish room.
We have over 1500 lbs of live rock, and a large assortment of fish I gathered from Importing over the years.
700 Gallon tank
300 Gallon Refugium
4 Hammerheads
Ocean's Motions Wave Maker
10 Eductors
ASM G6 Skimmer
Aqua Controller Pro
Calcium Reactor
Kalk Reactor with top off controller thingy
6 400 Watt 14K Metal Halides
1HP Chiller
Inhabitants:
2 Vlamingi Tangs
2 Purple Tangs
1 Black Unicorn
2 Naso Tangs
1 Orange Sholder Tang
1 Powder Blue Tang
1 Bristle Tooth Tang
2 Engineer Gobies
1 Cleaner Wrasse
1 Fang Blenny
2 Psychadelic Mandarins
1 Target Mandarin
1 Golden Head Goby
2 Solarensis Wrasses
2 True Percula Clownfish
2 Copper Banded Butterflies
3 Neon Gobies (??? Maybe they are hard to see...)
4 Cleaner Shrimp
Rose Anemone
(we found at least 8 sea urchins when we moved the live rock LOL)
A few too many corals to list....
It has been set up exactly 4 days now, without leaks!
We initally set it up and found it leaked after a month, turns out we cracked it where the bulkheads were, so we had to fix that.
Okay so we got banned from Reef Central for trying to sell old skimmers I had on my old tanks, they thought I was a store. I am absolutely NOT a store, and I am a little peeved to be banned by the nazi's over there. I refuse to go back there, even if they begged me or offered me money. The guy sent me an email, "go peddle your crap elsewhere." How rude! I wouldn't be surprized if a website reefcentralsucks.com showed up somewhere... You would think they would want someone on their board who imported fish for five years and now is a lowly reefer who has seen it all???
But I wanted to share our latest insanity with people who could appreciate it, and sine I will never post on theor board again, nor can I get ahold of anyone to contest my banning, I will share my knowledge with you guys.
For ten years we have had reef tanks, and about 2 years into it we decided buying retail was ridiculous so we started importing and thought to make a business of it. After loosing ridiculous amounts of money on that enterprize, we are back to being reefers again, for the fun of the hobby. Luckily I still import occassionally for my own tank, and I buy wholesale from the stores I used to supply.
We started with two tanks, a 100 years ago, that went the way of a friend, then a 165 in wall, which then led to a 188 SPS tank, with them tied together to a common refugium. Pics of the old tanks and the new 700 are on my website www.wildreef.com.
After taking care of the two tanks we decided to build the ultimate reef tank. A 700 gallon monstrocity that has it's own room! The tank ended up being a 10'x3'x3' Starfire tank, both the front and the right side are Starfire. It was purchased from InterAmerca a Canadian company. Upon arrival, the bottom was cracked and both the shipper and the builder refused to be held culpable. So it was repaired and now rests in my fish room.
We have over 1500 lbs of live rock, and a large assortment of fish I gathered from Importing over the years.
700 Gallon tank
300 Gallon Refugium
4 Hammerheads
Ocean's Motions Wave Maker
10 Eductors
ASM G6 Skimmer
Aqua Controller Pro
Calcium Reactor
Kalk Reactor with top off controller thingy
6 400 Watt 14K Metal Halides
1HP Chiller
Inhabitants:
2 Vlamingi Tangs
2 Purple Tangs
1 Black Unicorn
2 Naso Tangs
1 Orange Sholder Tang
1 Powder Blue Tang
1 Bristle Tooth Tang
2 Engineer Gobies
1 Cleaner Wrasse
1 Fang Blenny
2 Psychadelic Mandarins
1 Target Mandarin
1 Golden Head Goby
2 Solarensis Wrasses
2 True Percula Clownfish
2 Copper Banded Butterflies
3 Neon Gobies (??? Maybe they are hard to see...)
4 Cleaner Shrimp
Rose Anemone
(we found at least 8 sea urchins when we moved the live rock LOL)
A few too many corals to list....
It has been set up exactly 4 days now, without leaks!
We initally set it up and found it leaked after a month, turns out we cracked it where the bulkheads were, so we had to fix that.