Moving across the country, everything (corals+fish) must go!

[ponceludon]

Hey everyone, I have a 5-year old 140-gallon system with several corals and fish that I unfortunately have to get rid of because I am moving across the country and cannot transport them with me. I live in between Portola and the Bayview in San Francisco. Full disclosure: I have aiptasia and cyanobacteria in my tank that I've been trying to control with nutrient balancing, nudibranchs, and a filefish but I will do everything I can to ensure that the coral you receive has no pests on it. In the tank there are also asterinae and tiny brittle stars that could be potential hitchhikers.

I can only attach 5 pictures, but here is a list of the livestock that needs to go to a new home:

Large Coral Colonies
- Yellow submarine favia
- Baby's breath favia
- Flame boi favia
- Day-glo favia
- Cotton candy micromussa
- Japanese watermelon micromussa
- Orange and purple lordhowensis
- Sea grass cyphastrea
- Bling bling cyphastrea
- Meteor shower cyphastrea
- Arctic ice cyphastrea
- Electric daisy stylocoeniella
- Stunner stylocoeniella
- Christmas tree worm rock with porites
- Blue/green/purple Duncan
- Neon green Kenya tree
- Green toadstool
- Green galaxea
- Nirvana zoanthids
- Can't remember the name but they're light pink with streaks zoanthids
- Pulsing xenia
- Purple photosynthetic sponge (I know it's not a coral)

Smaller Coral Colonies
- Event horizon/Fascination favia
- PPE favia
- Kryptonite candy cane
- Neon green rhodactis mushrooms
- Tiny blue and green striped unknown type of mushroom
- Darth Maul porites
- Superman porites
- Battlestar galaxea (has a bunch of xenia on the frag, can be removed)
- Purple and green frogspawn
- Rasta zoanthids
- King Midas zoanthids
- Teal and purple zoanthids
- Blo-pop zoanthids
- Sunny D zoanthids
- Magician zoanthids
- Palythoa grandis
- Pink blastomussa
- Looney Tunes stylocoeniella
- Mardi gras platygyra
- Green and purple platygyra
- Gamma knife hydnophora
- XXX goniopora
- Mystery goniopora (a bit beleaguered now but was very large in the past)

Fish, etc.
- Aiptasia-eating filefish
- 3 chromis
- Molly Miller blenny (fabulous personality)
- Lawnmower blenny (also a real charmer)
- Pajama cardinal (big fella)
- Azure damselfish
- Black and white striped damsel (warning, this one is a jerk)
- Green gumdrop/clown goby (the cutest little thing)
- Watchman goby (though this one lives deep in the rocks and will be tough to get out)
- 4 clownfish (black/white striped ocellaris, maroon, orange/black not-striped ocellaris, black/white spotted ocellaris)
- A very small and sick green serpent star that lived in my sump for a long time and apparently hated it

 

[psidriven]

Is the gumdrop goby aka coral croucher ?

 

[Turkeysammich]

Well dang. I messaged him. My aquariums are full. I can temporarily house everything and pass it too the club. If you guys want. I’m not really interested in anything except the Christmas tree rock.

 

[grizfyrfyter]

Love the favia colonies! Bummer you can't take everything with you.

 

[ponceludon]

Is the gumdrop goby aka coral croucher ?

I guess I should revise the post: it's a green gumdrop a.k.a. clown goby

 

[ponceludon]

Love the favia colonies! Bummer you can't take everything with you.

Thanks, I know! It breaks my heart.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Thanks, I know! It breaks my heart.

Where ya headed?
Will there be a reef aquarium?
If so maybe frags could be shipped

 

[Invictus]

I would love to give the Lords/Micromussa a good home.

Also would love to take the lawnmower blenny and gonis

 

[spuri87]

DM sent

 

[Chrism1330]

Interested in the watchman goby and also willing to help break this down for anyone that wants to take it. Im in SF as well

 

[clownvan]

i can take the sunny d and king midas zoas if no one else wants them. i am not sure if I should DM you with half the club DM'ing right now?

 

[dswong01]

Interested in baby breath favia and pink blastos

 

[popper]

Sheet. I have an empty 300g. Can house everything then PIF.

 

[blink]

Interested in the Molly miller blenny and azure damsel

 

[spuri87]

I met Mea and her husband today when I went to pickup some corals today.. what a wonderful and knowledgeable couple.. and very welcoming! They both had so much knowledge about each and every coral in their tank and mentioned they have been doing it for a few years now! And of course 1st question I asked them was “why are you not on BAR?” So many knowledgeable reefers in the Bay Area, so so inspiring! I picked up about 9-10 soft and LPS corals, dipped them and added them to the tank right away! Cant wait to see them under light tomorrow! Mea mentioned @Turkeysammich is going to pickup almost everything tomorrow so whoever needs whatever, Will is your guy.. thank you Will. And of course thank you @ponceludon! It was lovely meeting you today!

 

[SupraSaltyReefer]

I want the rocks with the Aiptasia please!

 

[clownvan]

@Turkeysammich - I can pick up the king Midas and sunny d zoas from you if they are still available the week after next =)

 

[Turkeysammich]

Ok. 5.5 hours later.
This is what was left. Dunno the names. Don’t ask me.
Favia galore. You like favia ? They are smaller size. Few different strains.
The purple rubbery thing that Erin grows. @Kensington Reefer
About 5 different kind of Zoas.
Lots of pulsating Xenia.
Encrusting montis.
Green napthia.
Lots or rock. Mostly rubble.
A few fish. Just basic ones. Clowns , gum drop, Molly miller are spoken for. I will post Whats available later for fish.
I think that’s it. Chris was with me maybe he knows more. @Chrism1330

 

[Chrism1330]

Ok. 5.5 hours later.
This is what was left. Dunno the names. Don’t ask me.
Favia galore. You like favia ? They are smaller size. Few different strains.
The purple rubbery thing that Erin grows. @Kensington Reefer
About 5 different kind of Zoas.
Lots of pulsating Xenia.
Encrusting montis.
Green napthia.
Lots or rock. Mostly rubble.
A few fish. Just basic ones. Clowns , gum drop, Molly miller are spoken for. I will post Whats available later for fish.
I think that’s it. Chris was with me maybe he knows more. @Chrism1330

Yea…. A lot of it is just encrusting coral on big pieces of rock. A lot of aptasia @SupraSaltyReefer lotsssss. I dont recall any lps or soft it was all gone. I think there was 1 goni but looked nipped at by the fish.

 

[spuri87]

I dont recall any lps or soft it was all gone.

Did someone else take them before you and after me? I know a lot of it was encrusted on the big pieces of rock, and must have been hard work to take those out.. 3 out of my 10 that I took were from the sump/refugium lol.. I didnt take many from the main tank.. This is what I got:

1. Yellow submarine favia
2. 1 other favia (dont know the name) with some kind of a brown colored zoa frag that came on the same rock
3. 3 different Duncans
4. Neon green Kenya tree (only a frag that came with the leather)
5. Green toadstool
6. Purple and green frogspawn
7. 2 other basic soft/LPS corals, dont know the name

Sorry new to the name game, so not sure what all I got.. but they all look happy in my tank and makes me happy with some more color they have added to the tank, even though they are pretty basic ones. took a small video to share with Mea as a thank you earlier today, this is the latest look of my tank (the new corals are where I am stopping to capture them in the video, they are big and fills the real estate in the tank while looking pleasing to the eye):