250 Gallon Starphire tank

littlesilvermax · #4 11-07-2006, 04:24 PM

Important Notice!!!!!!!!

This winter when I redo my flow patterns in my tank I am thinking about getting rid of many zoos. Anybody want to buy all my starboard off of me? It would include about 4 square feet of zoos!!!!

Obviously I cannot just sell little bits at a time. I need to know if I should order new starboard to replace the old stuff.

If somebody is just starting up a tank and wants an instant easy to care for zoo bottom this may be you ticket!

Zoos are almost indestructible.

Farrmanchu · #5 11-07-2006, 05:32 PM

You know I'm in for some of that if the price is right.

littlesilvermax · #6 11-07-2006, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Farrmanchu

You know I'm in for some of that if the price is right.

I know you will be fragging those things like crazy! I don't have the time though.

Preliminary estimate is $300 over the price of the replacement starboard.

LostMind · #7 11-09-2006, 05:44 AM

I was going to ask if you were concerned the zoos would overgrow your tank

WWWD · #8 11-24-2006, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by littlesilvermax

Important Notice!!!!!!!!

This winter when I redo my flow patterns in my tank I am thinking about getting rid of many zoos. Anybody want to buy all my starboard off of me? It would include about 4 square feet of zoos!!!!

Obviously I cannot just sell little bits at a time. I need to know if I should order new starboard to replace the old stuff.

If somebody is just starting up a tank and wants an instant easy to care for zoo bottom this may be you ticket!

Zoos are almost indestructible.

You should be able to pull them off the starboard very easily with a razor blade underneath like your peeling a sticker. Also if the zoos on the rocks are in mats they can also be removed with a bit more effort. If you start in one area with some metal tongs you can carefully pull entire mats of them free. I ended up doing this with some seriously overgrowning zoos. One issue is that pulling to many zoos free at once can release a lot of toxin into the water column so you should do it in stages. i ended up need eye protection as well as some of them ended up being squirters.

littlesilvermax · #9 11-24-2006, 05:52 PM

I have fragged the zoos many times bbefore off of the starboard.

The ones that were stuck to coraline came off real easy, others took A LOT of work to get off.

I have a few locals that want it I think.

Ruth · #10 11-25-2006, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by littlesilvermax

Important Notice!!!!!!!!

This winter when I redo my flow patterns in my tank I am thinking about getting rid of many zoos. Anybody want to buy all my starboard off of me? It would include about 4 square feet of zoos!!!!

Obviously I cannot just sell little bits at a time. I need to know if I should order new starboard to replace the old stuff.

If somebody is just starting up a tank and wants an instant easy to care for zoo bottom this may be you ticket!

Zoos are almost indestructible.

Man if you weren't so far away I would take you up on this offer - I am going to re-aquascape my 190 this winter sometime and would love to have a zoo bottom - Elvis the Idol would love it too!