Moving states, all livestock (and tanks) must go.

Gedxin

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Hey all. I’m moving to Oregon this coming January. After weighting all my options, and with the primary goal to ensure survivability of my fish/coral, I’ve decided the best route is to sell all my livestock.

Most everything is price negotiable, I'm not trying to make a profit here, just want happy homes for every living thing. BULK BUY IS A MUST - I'm not going to sell 1-2 coral or fish at a time.

I have two tanks, a 4ft Redsea Peninsula 500 (132g), and a 18” Waterbox Nano Cube (20g). Last fish additions were in March 2023. All fish are healthy (afaik), and I have never had an ich or brook incident.

Some info about my tank:
Fish are doing well. Most everyone gets along, with the Katherine’s wrasse the biggest bully in the tank - usually just chasing the McCosker’s wrasse around. Coral on the other hand, most are just surviving. My tank is infested with aiptasia and to a lessen extent bubble algae. I’ll spare gooey details on remedy failures, but I’ve tried bhergia and peppermint shrimp, and emerald crabs, all to no avail. The aiptasia spreads, stings, kills and the bubble algae crowds and annoys. A few of my acros are growing with a couple showing colors, but most are just green and sustaining life.

Peninsula Fish Livestock List (tank started May 2022) (FISH $800 takes today, OBO)
  1. 2x Firefish, one very social, other a hider
  2. 2x Clowns, large ~2.5-3” female ocellaris and male davinci.
  3. Flame hawkfish
  4. 2x Ignitus Anthias, one male, one female
  5. Katherine’s wrasse, 4”
  6. Yellow Tang, 5-6”
  7. Whitetail Bristletooth Tang, 4-5”
  8. 6x Pajama Cardinalfish, 2.5”-3.5"
  9. McCosker's Flasher Wrasse, 3-4”

Coral Livestock: ($$ TBD) most of my stony coral have aiptasia, bubble algae and/or vermetid snails. I will do my best to clean off, but I’m no professional, and you should expect hitch hikers:
  1. Large duncan colony, >40 heads
  2. Random rainbow goni (RR bubblicious)
  3. Random neon goni
  4. Indo gold torch
  5. NY Knicks torch
  6. Space invader pectina, >15 heads
  7. japanese painting chalice
  8. rainbow micromussa
  9. flame fire cloves
  10. grafted (green/orange) branching montipora
  11. poinsettia zoas
  12. jungle fever favia
  13. orange frogspawn, struggling, 2”
  14. purple euphyllia, 3? heads, 3”
  15. orange ricordia mushroom
  16. yellow yuma mushroom
  17. 2x branching cyphastrea
  18. wwc heartbreaker acro
  19. goldenrod acro
  20. rmf psychoberry acro
  21. rmf tiger’s blood acro
  22. wwc jello shot acro
  23. teal stylophora
  24. oregon tort acro
  25. vivid’s confetti acro
  26. BC rainbow’s army
  27. GB full spectrum
  28. Bc ultimate table acro
  29. Zs prize acro
  30. arc fireworks acro
  31. BC bubblebath unicorn acro
  32. CE blue thunder acro
  33. a few acros of names I cannot recall
  34. wwc rainbow monti
  35. RR midnight monti
  36. red monti
  37. rainbow bubble tip anemone

A few photos, I can follow up with closer photos in the future if needed.

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Cube Livestock List (Tank started June 2021) (Fish-only $100 OBO)
  1. Yellow watchman goby (1.5”)
  2. 2x Clownfish black ice pair (~1.5-2”)

Coral: ($$ TBD)
  1. Bambam zoas
  2. king midas zoas
  3. solar flare zoas
  4. multi-head rainbow lobophyllia
  5. green star polyps
  6. orange ricordia
  7. yellow yuma mushroom
  8. brick cyphastrea
  9. 2x random blastomussa
  10. red monti
  11. 2x rainbow bubble tip anemones

More recent photos of cube tank to come, but here's a 6mo old one where the hair algae is rampant. Hair algae has since turned to a cyano outbreak.
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Interested parties please inquire here with offers or via DM. Again, bulk-only interest please.
 
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Zoaspun

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Sell my either the yellow tang , bristle tooth , and the mcckoskers and the Katherine’s
 

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Ah man, I'm sorry about the outbreaks.

Truthfully, I'd just move the corals off the rocks onto frag racks, boil RODI and turkey baste blast it right onto the Aiptasia. Kills them instantly and any planulas they try to release before death. Shouldn't kill all the bac inside the rocks. Once they're dead-dead, corals back to rocks.
 

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Note: boiling RODI is not a very marketable solution, so no wonder you don't hear much about it, but damned if it doesn't work.

I've tried Aiptasia X and F Aiptasia, and both only make them go away for a bit then pop up in the same place and elsewhere. I don't know if they are releasing planula when they note the treatment on them or if they do so when retracted into the rocks. Either way, it has been mixed results at best.
 

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Some people use chemicals mentioned above, kalkwasser, peppermint shrimps, filefish, nudibranch, butterfly fish, etc. I’ve tried pretty much all those methods but the thing that worked for me — Kleini Butterfly! They eat aiptasias but also eat normal fish food. They may eat zoas and softies but a wonderful aiptasias pest control!

good luck
 

Gedxin

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Updated Prices!
All 20 FISH: $800
All 40+ Coral: $800
All Fish & Coral: $1400 (bulk savings!)

If no one bites on the above prices, I will entertain offers and livestock sell-off in chunks.
 

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I would have gotten all that coral if I still had my huge tank running. But I only got a 40G now. If your willing to part out coral I have a eye for a few
 
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