Peckoltia

Mike - lights are the last piece of the puzzle. Either going with the Illumagic Blaze X series or Ecotech Radion Gen 4 pro's.

Quarantine cycling - will add some bacteria in a bottle in the next couple of days to speed the process up. 

Hopefully get the display painted this weekend and the mixing station plumbed.

Yes, it is wooden flooring. 

This is the first time I have ever set up a tank on wooden flooring and will need to be diligent with cleaning up any spills. It is also part of the reason i went a bean animal overflow, that extra pipe for redundancy gives me at least some assurance that I am not going to flood the house. 

With the wooden flooring something to consider is what kind of wood is used - laminate, engineered or hardwood? Mine are hardwood ('Black But') and varnished which gives some level of protection. Not sure if I'd set up a tank on laminate or engineered wood, as they are a lot less resilient to water damage.

Also to be considered is -  how are the boards installed? This is on the ground floor of the house, and have been laid on the slab. There are generally two ways of installing on a slab either on battens or on marine ply base. Battens are exactly as it sounds battens that run under the floor boards and suspend the floorboards off the concrete. Batten installed floorboards will have a bit of a hollow sound to them like the 'old school' homes when walked on, and be 'springy/more forgiving' underfoot. My floorboards have been laid on a base of plywood so there is no void under the boards. Again, not sure I'd have  a tank this size on batten installed floorboards, unless I could be certain where the battens have been laid and design my stand to have the legs resting on the battens. 

So in my case, I have hardwood floors installed on plywood, which is my opinion/research is the ideal situation. I also had the stand made with 10 legs rather than 8 like my previous 8' stand. Just to try spread the load a little bit more again. 

I considered running a length of metal along the floor instead of having individual legs of the stand (if that makes sense), but figured it'd just end up as a good place to have water trapped and ruin my floors. i am also considering running a bead of black silicone around each leg on the boards to avoid any water getting in.

Jules - thanks mate. Been quite a long time in the making, good to start seeing some progress. 

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One tank sold, so whole set up is no longer available. 

6x2x2.5' less than 6 months use (in excellent condition) 12mm glass, black silicone. The tank is also drilled with an overflow with dual 40mm holes. $500, Price dropped to $400 can throw in a 300watt heater as a sweetener.

Pond One 8000 air pump (less than 6 months use) $100

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Up for sale is a 2 tier 6x2x2.5 (LxWxH). 

This is a near on brand new set up. The top tank has never even seen water! The bottom tank probably got 6 months of use but presents as brand new. The stand is pallet racking (the industrial orange and blue), that I had professionally sprayed black. 

Both tanks are drilled with 40mm over flow with combs attached. 

Comes with my 'home made' k1 filter - made from a 220L food grade drum (bought as new not reconditioned), 100L of K1 media and Pond One 8000 air pump that I was using to circulate the media. All filter components are 6months old and present as new. The filter works a treat, I had 6 rays being fed multiple times a day and didn't skip a beat. 

The way the set up with designed was with the overflows on apposing sides to let the top tank flow into the bottom then into the filter and then pumped back to the top. So the filter will effectively filter both tanks. 

Will also throw in a 300watt heater (6months old). All you need is a return pump and she is good to go.

$1400 firm $1200 firm for the set up. Like i said it presents as new because it pretty much is. My loss is someone's gain on this. 

Please PM

Apologies about the orientation of the photos, couldn't seem to fix it.

Awesome fish, best of luck with him. 

Life of mealworms and crickets seems to have agreed with him getting to such an impressive size. Best of luck getting him onto prepared foods. Must have cost the previous owner a fortune to feed. 

SOLD

Many years ago, I saw an electric yellow that was about 5-6cm that had grown up in the bottom of a filter that had adapted to swimming on its side due to a life in confinement. 

My fish room has frosted glass doors on it. My fish could see me through the closed frosted door (semi-transparent) while I was in my living room 4 or 5 meters away. I'd say their vision is pretty awesome considering they rely so heavily on it.

It could just be that turning point - where the fish has gained some strength from the food and settled in and now 100% knows that the pellets are food. The chewing is a dead give away that the fish is still unsure about the pellet/feed. See it all the time with tank busters and particularly rays, can really pin point when they turn the corner and will go from strength to strength with feeding response and growth. 

Heaps of rays always for sale on gumtree. 

Benno -  Been keeping rays and exotics for a very long time now and have decided to pack it, I am also a reptile keeper and have decided to sell up all my reptiles also. 

I have a young family now and have decided rather than having multiple tanks and snakes etc. I would sell everything and instead set up a large reef tank that the family can enjoy (and myself). At a point in my life I guess that i would rather one amazing tank as a bit of a focal point in my house rather than do a lot of different things. While I love the rays. I think that a reef tank full of colour and vibrancy would be more interective for young children and could be used as a good learning tool. 

Guess the other thing is I've become a bit bored and stale myself. A new challenge of going all out on a reef tank really interests me with all the gadgets and new things to learn (or relearn in some cases).

All the rays and fish have gone to really good homes and people. The first couple rays I will admit was hard.

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Shutting down my tanks and still have a few fish and rays left.

7x Silver Sharks ~12-16cm $100 the lot  Sold

3 way stingray (male), was keeping this guy for future breeding. $500 approximate 20cm across the disk 

5x Peacock Bass. Females $100each Big male is $150 or all 5 for $500  2x Females left $100ea   SOLD  

Male 3 way stingray - has fathered many pups ~ 30cm across the disk $500 (sold pending pick up) SOLD

Please PM if interested.