Shooter7
12/21/2010, 06:48 PM
Hi, my name's David and I'll be moving to the CIMA area in late May - early June 2011. I'll be getting married at that time and moving into my GF's house in Tolono. I've been a member of SEASL for the past several years and have about 7 years total experience with saltwater tanks, everything from a 10g nano to my most recent tank of 120g. All have been mixed reefs. Fortunately for me, I'll fit in well in the area as I was born in Champaign, grew up in Villa Grove, and am a lifelong Illini fan. I'm 46 and have custody of my 8 y/o son, and once I'm married I'll have 2 stepdaughters as well.
Unfortunately, this move is causing a downsizing for me from my 120g to a standard 29g tank. I suppose it's a good thing as my tank has barely been limping along the last couple of years due to personal issues going on in my life and me not able to stay on top of things like you need to. My tank went from looking like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/DavidW/IMG_0188_1.jpg
Where I was getting a good start on adding SPS to my mix, to looking like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/DavidW/IMG_0783_1.jpg
...which is pretty depressing, I know.
I have moved some rock and several corals to my new 29g tank I have set up at my GF's house in Tolono. I already had a stand, and she has a neighbor who does woodwork and he built me a canopy to my specs for me to put on top. I've got a 150W halide in there, an external pump I've plumbed an over the top of the tank kind of closed loop system to, and a new Hydor Slim Skim Nano skimmer in the tank. I've moved my clownfish there, and still need to catch a chromis and my leopard wrasse to move there as well. Don't have any good pics of this setup yet, but I've got several different types of zoas, green stars, LPS, a few colors of ricordea, and some other corals in it. I'd like to eventually upgrade again - I'm liking the looks of the Marineland deep tanks, but not sure when an upgrade will happen. So, hoping to chat or meet some of you local hobbyists eventually. Might be good to know some people so if my GF starts having a panic situation and I can't get there, maybe I might know someone close enough by to go there and help her out or something. And with some of the amounts of zoas and such I'm bringing, I'm hoping it won't be long before I might be looking to frag.
Which brings me to the "fish for sale" part of this. I need to get my big tank here shut down soon and I have a purple tang that needs a home. He's a gorgeous fish and very healthy. I'm asking $80 for him (saw one smaller and more pale than mine for $189 at Sailfin). Here's a recent pic of him:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/DavidW/IMG_0787_1.jpg
Let me know if you're interested. Really want him to go to a 120g or larger tank.
Hope to talk to you guys over the upcoming months...
Unfortunately, this move is causing a downsizing for me from my 120g to a standard 29g tank. I suppose it's a good thing as my tank has barely been limping along the last couple of years due to personal issues going on in my life and me not able to stay on top of things like you need to. My tank went from looking like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/DavidW/IMG_0188_1.jpg
Where I was getting a good start on adding SPS to my mix, to looking like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/DavidW/IMG_0783_1.jpg
...which is pretty depressing, I know.
I have moved some rock and several corals to my new 29g tank I have set up at my GF's house in Tolono. I already had a stand, and she has a neighbor who does woodwork and he built me a canopy to my specs for me to put on top. I've got a 150W halide in there, an external pump I've plumbed an over the top of the tank kind of closed loop system to, and a new Hydor Slim Skim Nano skimmer in the tank. I've moved my clownfish there, and still need to catch a chromis and my leopard wrasse to move there as well. Don't have any good pics of this setup yet, but I've got several different types of zoas, green stars, LPS, a few colors of ricordea, and some other corals in it. I'd like to eventually upgrade again - I'm liking the looks of the Marineland deep tanks, but not sure when an upgrade will happen. So, hoping to chat or meet some of you local hobbyists eventually. Might be good to know some people so if my GF starts having a panic situation and I can't get there, maybe I might know someone close enough by to go there and help her out or something. And with some of the amounts of zoas and such I'm bringing, I'm hoping it won't be long before I might be looking to frag.
Which brings me to the "fish for sale" part of this. I need to get my big tank here shut down soon and I have a purple tang that needs a home. He's a gorgeous fish and very healthy. I'm asking $80 for him (saw one smaller and more pale than mine for $189 at Sailfin). Here's a recent pic of him:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/DavidW/IMG_0787_1.jpg
Let me know if you're interested. Really want him to go to a 120g or larger tank.
Hope to talk to you guys over the upcoming months...