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fgovro
06-09-2008, 03:34 AM
Vancouver area- 240 gallon custom display tank with coralife 3x250W with two 72” actinic VHO. The tank is on a metal stand, not enclosed. 60 gal sump with ASM G6 skimmer (1200 gal rating) 3 sedra pumps, with cheeto in the sump to keep algae away. 16 outlet manifold for water flow in tank, powered by a hammerhead 5800 gph pump. Tunze Turbelle 1600 gph powerhead in tank as well.
Enough Xenia to make 500 frags or more. That alone is worth $7500 if you wholesale it to local shops (I’ve checked and they all want some) and then you could harvest another 50-100 frags a month easily.
Tons of polyps of all colors-green, yellow, pink, orange, brown… You could make quite a few frags with these.
Mushrooms, leather, frogspawn, and other softies.
Fish- hippo tangs(2), Foxface-large, Yellow tang, Dottyback, Gramma, Blue-green chromis(2, very large) blue devil, turbo snails, hermits crabs, cleaner shrimps(2), fire shrimp, brittle star,
Refractrometer for testing salinity, Python Clean and fill w/ 50’ hose, Tiger Shark cleaning magnet($100 variety), Kent marine pro scraper, 3 heaters200-250watt,
Rubble for making frags, extra frozen food, test kits, everything I have for this tank, you get.


All in all I went into this for well over $10,000 if we add in livestock and supplies. The tank, sump, lighting, skimmer, and live rock adds up to over $6000 easily. The livestock can be parted out for over $8000 if you wholesale it all for half of retail. This is a great deal if you take it and sell off the xenia, you get the whole works for free and make a profit from the get go. You will see I easily have more Xenia than you’ve ever laid eyes on, and you will make a lot of money with it.

I prefer to sell the whole works as a package. If you are looking for a large tank and can afford this, you can upgrade for pretty much free, or better.

Asking $5500 Selling due to moving, tank will not fit in new place.

P.S. Once purchased I can work out some fairly flexible terms for your moving the livestock and hardware. You can even remove and sell the Xenia before moving tank, once you've purchased the setup. Cheers!

Zoaelite
06-09-2008, 06:41 PM
Wow thats a whole bunch of Xenia! Constructivly though, I believe your price is a little high. You need to consider that although there might be an easy $7500.00 worth of Xenia, no Petstore will pay you $15.00 a frag and they would only require a few at a time nothing near 500 of them. You also then need to make the 500 frags, with 500 plugs and this would probably take a week or two. The product and live stock do total a very nice sum but again in this hobby your lucky to get 1/10th of what you put into it.
Levi
(Good luck selling though, the person who buys this is getting an amazing set up!)

fgovro
06-10-2008, 01:57 PM
Thanks Levi, I appreciate the feedback, and yes it would take a bit of work. Also true you could most likely sell 100-200 at a time to local shops, but they would use it up nicely I'm guessing especially nif you throw Big Al's into the mix. They have several stores.

Although I have checked and all the petstores I contacted will pay $15 for a decent size frag(which is very small considering how much Xenia there is here).

I would be open to feedback or offers as to price. The lucky buyers will definitely get into this system with very little expense, compared to buying a barebones setup.

P.S. There's also a separate 55 gal tank and a huge skimmer I can throw in as a bonus which can be used for breeding purposes

fgovro
06-12-2008, 01:15 AM
anyone want to make an offer... this is a huge display tank, custom built for a restaurant....29" high of pure viewing pleasure....

Lance
06-12-2008, 01:42 AM
If you change your mind about selling everything together, I may be interested in the tank and everything else less the livestock. I am looking for a tank about this size for a FOWLR.

fgovro
06-15-2008, 05:09 PM
Make me an offer and I will consider it...

BTW for anyone wanting the tank no livestock, you'll probably want the LR, as most of it was painstakingly chosen over a period of months and numerous visits to J&L. Long flat slabs with unusual shapes, plus- a huge piece of petrified wood- all work together to create amazing seascapes

Lance
06-15-2008, 05:31 PM
PM'ed

fgovro
06-17-2008, 04:26 AM
check out tank4.jpg to get a feel of the massive size of this beast