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Unread 11/21/2007, 05:41 PM   #1
OnoIgotICH
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The most expensive thing in your tank.

Whats the most expensive thing in your tank?

For me, I'd probaly say ... a 18 inch puffer


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Unread 11/21/2007, 05:49 PM   #2
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The water..... by now it has cost me numerous buckets of salt.....


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Unread 11/21/2007, 05:53 PM   #3
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live rock.....500 bucks worth.


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Unread 11/21/2007, 05:55 PM   #4
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live rock.....500 bucks worth.
Thats only like 10-15 buckets of salt


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Unread 11/21/2007, 06:02 PM   #5
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yea but theres probably only one pucket full actually in your tank right now


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Unread 11/21/2007, 06:26 PM   #6
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Live rock and the skimmer


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Unread 11/21/2007, 06:29 PM   #7
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Live rock intank/sump about 200lbs at around $8-9/lb.


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Current Tank Info: I have a 180 gal mostly LPS corals, it contains 1 Val. Tang, 1 yellow striped clown fish, 3 percula clownfish, a blood shrimp, cleaner shrimp and a sand shifting goby, 5 pajama cardinals, 1 green chromis. Also a 75 gal. sump/fug.
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Unread 11/21/2007, 06:31 PM   #8
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last month I played in my tank for about an hour, when I relized I was wearing my Rolex....good thing it was insured


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Unread 11/21/2007, 07:10 PM   #9
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damn john, you took mine.


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Unread 11/21/2007, 07:22 PM   #10
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18 inch puffer in a 75 gallon tank?


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Unread 11/21/2007, 07:36 PM   #11
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I have to pay $10 a lb for rock...I have 200Lbs.


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Unread 11/21/2007, 07:45 PM   #12
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18 inch puffer in a 75 gallon tank?
That's what I was thinking.


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Unread 11/21/2007, 08:13 PM   #13
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Salt=to many buckets to count
Live Rock = 1000+pounds
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Unread 11/21/2007, 08:20 PM   #14
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my most expensive is on top of the tank, solaris lights


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Unread 11/21/2007, 08:26 PM   #15
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livestock...bluespotted jawish or pair of bw clown.
equipment... tunze wavbox.


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Unread 11/21/2007, 08:30 PM   #16
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Most expensive accessory Ive got is outside the tank; I bought my current house purely because it was the only one in my price range and area with a wall long enough for the tank I wanted to get.

Inside the tank though... prolly my 350lbs of live rock.


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Unread 11/21/2007, 08:31 PM   #17
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about 120 pounds of live rock @ $6 a pound


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Unread 11/21/2007, 09:03 PM   #18
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nuclear green palys.


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Unread 11/21/2007, 09:31 PM   #19
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The electricity that it sucks like jet fuel.


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Unread 11/21/2007, 09:58 PM   #20
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Quote:
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That's what I was thinking.
Me to


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Unread 11/21/2007, 10:04 PM   #21
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5 bar mystery wrasse, Tunzes,



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Unread 11/21/2007, 10:16 PM   #22
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80lbs Fiji/Kaelini LR
48" 2 x 400W MH fixture w/ moonlights and HO T5 actinics
2 x Tunze powerheads (worth every single penny)

The tank, stand and living things inside are the cheap part! I don't have any reactors or fancy gadgets; all my tanks are quite simple, and still there are a few expensive bits. It's not a cheap hobby, but it's SO worth it


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Unread 11/21/2007, 10:22 PM   #23
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last month I played in my tank for about an hour, when I relized I was wearing my Rolex....good thing it was insured
Rolex *invented* the waterproof watch.
Tracy


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Unread 11/21/2007, 10:30 PM   #24
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my most expensive is on top of the tank, solaris lights
How do you LOVE them??


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Unread 11/21/2007, 10:31 PM   #25
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if were talking livestock mines a 33 inch blue ribbon eel


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