FS: $1600 OBO // Oceanic Tech 75G Reef Aquarium, Stand, Sump, Lighting, Livestock

[bh003i]

FS: $1200 OBO // Oceanic Tech 75G Reef Aquarium, Stand, Sump, Lighting, Livestock

SOLD.

I'm moving to California in two weeks, and this aquarium is too large to move with me, so please take a look and make an offer. Move quickly on this if you're serious, please. I'm available almost every day and evening for you to come by to view. Will consider selling the Tank+Stand+Sump separately to a serious buyer.

For Sale is my hard-to-find 75 gallon Oceanic Tech Series Reef Aquarium with stand, 20 gallon sump, premium-quality lighting system, and many accessories.

Lots of PHOTOS. See below.

For convenience, I prefer to sell with all the existing livestock, coral, and live rock. (details below):

• Thick Ultra-Clear Starphire glass front. A huge difference over standard glass and has no distortion or color changes like typical greenish glass.
  
• Factory-installed reef overflow box, drilled, with bulkhead, flexible hose drainage to sump, and return spouts.
  
• Oceanic 20gallon sump, perfectly sized so that even if power is lost, it can hold all the overflow box water easily. Has a heavy glass holder for the display overflow tubing, and an integrated 'fill to this line' sticker for optimal filtering. Has a great bubble trap and prefilter, and plenty of room for a large skimmer, live rock, return pump, media reactor with pump, and various other accessories. A perfectly matching sump for this system and stand.
  
• Premium-quality 306watt Marineland Lighting System with 150watt Metal Halide 14000K HQI lamp, 4x 39watt Actinic T-5 lamps, and 2x 1watt blue 'moonlight' LEDs.
  
  This whole system is in one attractive, self-contained, fan-ventilated housing, with a separate programmable timer for each light, all controllable via a LCD display on the top of the light case. For example, I have the flourescents on from 9am to 10pm, the metal halide from 11am to 5pm, and the LED moonlights on 24-hours.
  
  And, the entire system plugs in to the wall with only one cord. I love this light setup, extremely easy and effective.
  
  The metal halide is gives a beautiful 'shimmer' and 'glitter lines' in the display tank. This system cost almost $1000 new.
  
  Read more at www.marineland.com/products/aquariu...-saltwater-reef-aquarium-lighting-system.aspx
• Tunze Master DOC Protein Skimmer 9410
  This Tunze unit is among the best available for this size aquarium, and is by far my favorite after experimenting with several other models in the past.
  
  Huge collection cup with integrated reactor (so you can clean both very easily), Self-adjusting Overflow Regulation (most skimmers stop working correctly when the water level changes, ie almost every day), Easy to adjust, Mechanical post-filter and bubble trap, Heavy stable base (critical for submerging in sump without floating), running via a Tunze Hydrofoamer Silence pump
  Read more at www.tunze.com/149.html?&L=1&C=US&user_tunzeprod_pi1[predid]=-infoxunter055
  
• JBJ Ocean Pulse Dual Powerhead Wavemaker, which (quietly!) alternates two MaxiJet 600 powerheads in the display tank. This combined with the overflow skimming and return pump outlets gives the perfect amount of circulation in the right areas without disturbing the sandbed. The powerheads are held in place by super-strong magnetic holders, which is a huge improvement over normal suction cups that dislodge every few days.
• Efficient Mag brand return pump, which pumps from the sump up through overflow box plumbing and out each side of the top of the overflow.
• Automatic Clean Water Topoff system. Spectrapure Water level controller with Aqua-lifter pump pulls your new water slowly from a resevoir. I use a ~4gal bucket that fits hidden inside the stand base and refill every few days with RO/DI water, but the small clear tubing just needs to be set in any size water source. This is a critical part of the ease of use of this setup. Previously I had to manually add up to a gallon a day of water that has evaporated out of the system, but with this, just fill up the bucket and the level controller will pull in the amount of water it needs on demand. I love this setup and it keeps water parameters, skimmer, and pumps much more stable.
• Always-on Digital pH Meter with LCD display. Much easier than using chemicals to test each time.
• Two Little Fishies Phosban Reactor 150 with MaxiJet 600 powerhead -- very effective for phosphate reduction
• Other: sturdy black silicone seals, power supply mounted inside stand, black painted background
• Matching Oceanic Stand. Black laminate over MDF and internal metal posts, with blacked out glass doors. Although the stand matches perfectly in looks and size, this is my least favorite part, as the MDF legs have absorbed moisture over many years and are "puffed out" places on the inside seams and bottom. It's been like this for a long time, so I would expect it will hold up with no problems, just a little ugly inside the doors and on part of the bottom. It's not terrible, but it could be made much better cheaply and easily by anyone with DIY experience. One of the legs has a custom sized 1x4 in place to help take the load off that leg. I assume a previous owner just wanted to make extra sure it was stable. The magnetic closures on the inside of the doors could also be replaced easily to make the door closing mechanism more solid.
• Other accessories included: two (great) magnetic algae cleaners, one metal bladed algae remover, glass internal thermometer, one surface thermometer on the sump
  
  Livestock and Coral
  
• Approximately 150lbs of mature Live Rock (maybe more). I forgot how much I bought originally, but the tank is pretty packed with live rock. Almost all the pieces are super porous and beautiful with tons of coraline algae, countless beneficial hitchhikers (stars, sponges), and live coral attached. The urchins are constantly renewing the surface. I attribute most of the easy of maintenance of this setup to the live rock, as it's always kept water parameters very stable even if I've skipped maintenance for a while.
• 4-inch Adult Desjardini Sailfin Tang (Zebrasoma desjardini). Totally adorable and full of personality, will even let you pet it (sometimes). Always visible and clearly in charge of the tank. Eats anything and everything. An amazing, beautiful specimen. My favorite for sure.
• A mated pair of Tank-bred Tomato Clownfish (Amphiprion frenatus). The female is maybe 2+ inches, and dark red, and the male is smaller and orange. They are inseperable from each other and their anemone home. A very fun, interesting and bold pair, along with the Tang, they dominate the tank. They have spawned and attached eggs near their anemone quite a few times, so they seem pretty happy.
• A 4inch peach/pink Anthias (may be a Pseudanthias rubrizonatus, but not sure). I little shy, but usually visible and always comes out instantly when you approach the tank, looking for food. Hides very cutely in small holes with just head visible.
• A 2-inch colorful Red Mandarin Dragonet (Synchiropus cf. splendidus). These are supposed to be very hard to keep alive, but this is quite fat and seems happy after at least a year. There are tons of copepods and related food for it in the live sand bed and on rocks. Constantly hunting for food.
• A school of three 2-inch Pajama Cardinalfish (Sphaeramia nematoptera). They float very quietly without moving for long periods.
• All these fish eat very very well. To make it easy on me, I only feed New Life Spectrum sinking pellets and occaisional strips of seaweed.
• Extra Large Long Tentacle Anemone (Macrodactyla doreensis). Purple with greenish-purple. This thing is Huge when fully open, at least 10 inches in diameter. Very inhabited by the two mated Tomato Clownfish, they rarely stray more than a few inches away and are very very physical with it, which it seems happy enough with. The clownfish and anemone (right against the front glass) are the showpiece of the aquarium and are awesome to watch, especially if they don't think you are watching. It's retracted in the photos because I harassed it accidentally when cleaning.
  
• Extra Large Anchor Coral (Euphyllia ancora). Neon green and purple. Started with just two heads from a frag, and now has more than I can easily count. It's probably about a 4in x 6in bundle of heads, with all the polyp tentacles extended out to create a ball shape. Very cool and grows like crazy.
• Large Wellsophyllia Folded Brain Coral (Trachyphyllia radiata). Beautiful neon green with purple. About 7inch diameter when fully open (daytime). Has grown a lot over the past 2 years or so.
• Tons and tons of Zoanthids/Palys of various sizes, color morphs, textures, etc. Growing as part of large colonies, or encrusting live rock surfaces, there are way more of these polyps than I can count, probably a thousand at least. Most are brown or brownish-green, with a few very colorful colonies.
• Fungia Coral. Nice neon green color. Maybe 1.5-2 inches wide now, was a hitchhiker the size of a pinhead when I first noticed it.
• Lots of Mushroom Coral of various sizes and shapes growing on the live rock. There are a few extra large Blue mushrooms that are especially nice.
• A bunch of Green Star Polyps growing on the live rock.
• 2 inches of super-mature Live Sand (not sure of weight). Tons of little critters and pods in the sand.
• Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp (Lysmata amboinensis). Very cool guy, not afraid of anything and regularly cleans the larger fish.
• One extra large Zebra Turbo snail. This guy has grown from very small in a very short time. Very cool and larger than any other turbo snail I've seen.
• Caribbean Pincushion Urchin (about 1.5-2inches), pinkish. And a smaller Blue Tuxedo Pincushion Urchin.
• Cabbage Leather Coral (I think Sinularia brassica). Tan colored, has grown quickly.
• 4-heads of Candy Cane Coral (Caulastrea furcata). Whitish and very puffy.
• Large Tooth Coral (Galaxea spp.). Purple with white tipped tentacles. Very long sweeper tentacles at night.
• Lots of mini Brittle Stars, and other filter feeders throughout. Various hermit crabs and smaller snails.
• You can have the remainder of my 5-gallon bucket of Oceanic Sea Salt. It's by far my favorite salt, and mixes instantly (never seen anything like it).

Approximate Dimensions (Tank): 18in (short side, depth away from wall) x 36in (long front side, Starphire Glass) x 24.5 (height/depth from top to bottom)

Approximate Dimensions (Stand + Tank + Lighting): 19in (side) x 37in (front) x 63in (height)

See vendor's site for more official details: www.oceanicsystems.com/products/tech-series.php

CASH ONLY. LOCAL PICKUP ONLY (I'm located in Midtown Manhattan/Chelsea). This aquarium and stand are Very Heavy. It will take at least 3 people to move if just carrying it by hand, but recommend furniture or appliance dolly or find someone on uShip.com to move it (insured). Elevator building with loading area for vehicle. Small enough to fit in a typical SUV/Van or Truck, but make sure you have people to help you move it. I have a couple of buckets, but will need more to break down all the livestock, rock, etc.

Thanks for looking. I'm available almost anytime for you to visit, and keep in mind I need to have this entire setup sold by Feb 15th. PM or thread reply is preferred, I usually answer immediately.

 

[bh003i]

Photos Added. Thanks for Looking.

 

[bh003i]

:bump:

 

[brick-brothers]

Pm sent

 

[bh003i]

Hi bb, thanks for the note.
I'm not quite at the point where I want to part it out, but if someone wants the tank, sump and stand for a rational price and can give me a few days to liquidate the rest before breakdown, I'll happily part out the remaining equipment, livestock, and live rock.

I'm just worried about getting stuck with the large tank and stand that I have no way of moving, and is much too nice just to trash.
All offers will be considered on the Display Tank + Stand + Sump combo. Thanks all.

 

[bh003i]

Price reduced to $1200. Winner takes all.
(reduced after getting some initial indications of buyer demand, parted out and individually)

 

[Arnaldo24]

Hey bud im first in line. Lol. :bump:

 

[jose504]

hey i want to buy some coral from you

 

[dannyny]

interested in coral and the school of three 2-inch Pajama Cardinalfish also any other fish for smaller aquariums.

 

[bh003i]

Thanks all, I'm still working through some offers on the entire set up.

 

[bh003i]

Ok, thanks for all the interest. I've got a list of people interested in various parts of this setup, so I'm going to open a separate thread for the tank/stand/sump. Once that sells, I'll may recontact some people about the remaining livestock, but I think this thread is closed for now.

 

[aznreef]

I will take the heater..

 

[bh003i]

Not sure what you were looking at, but I don't use a heater...

 

[joegoersch]

Interested in the Mandarin if you will part with livestock...

 

[bh003i]

All is sold. Thread closed.