Looking for Southern California/Ventura County reefers to buy corals, rock and more

[Nickeleye]

Over the next few weeks I will be selling off several of my corals and fish as well as live rock and sand. I will be selling the following:

(1) Yellow leather
(1) Small brown torch coral
(1) Large brown torch coral
(1) Med. size pink hammer coral
(1) Med. size brown star polyp rock
(1) Small brown star polyp rock with green leather frag
(1) Large rock with small brown star polyps, pink leather frag and red sea squirt
(1) ~1-1/2 lb LR w/ feather duster
(1) Rainford's Goby
(1) Firefish Goby
(1) Royal Gramma

Several pounds of various LR with other various corals and sponges.
Several hermits and a handful of porcelain crabs.
Approximately 60 lbs of sand established for roughly 7 months.

I may have missed a few things so I'll add them if I find anything. I will not ship corals, rock, fish, inverts or sand. My gallery shows pictures of all of the above corals, which are current up to 10/31/04.

** Not for sale **
Green plate coral
Ricordia rock w/ christmas tree coral
Yellow polyps
Green/pink star polyps
Large button polyp rock
Large pink leather
Clown pair

If any other changes are made to what is or isn't for sale I will post asap. Please PM if interested in any of the above and I will respond with my asking prices.

[1-nicon]

how much

[Nickeleye]

1-nicon: check your PMs

[1-nicon]

Do you have a pic:)

[Nickeleye]

This is probably the best pic (http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=64053&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500) I have of the small rock at this time. I can try to get a better pic if you're interested in what you see. The rock is towards the top left side of the pic and has a snail on it in the picture. The rock has the green leather and the green star polyps on it as well as sponge that is unseen in the picture.

[DANNY G2004]

Hey Nickeleye Hi let me know where your located in Ventura and ill go home and check out your system.

[Nickeleye]

Guess I have to include pricing otherwise my post goes bye-bye... I will post prices later today once I get home from work.

[Crusty Old Shellback]

Nickeleye,
I may be interested in some of your stuff as well like the pink hammer, ransford goby and royal grama. I'll check out your pic's and get back to you. We have been working on starting a small reef club here in VC. Check out www.MASVC.com for our website and you may try posting some of your stuff on there as well. Later.

[DANNY G2004]

2368680 give me a call Nick

[Nickeleye]

Originally posted by DANNY G2004
Hey Nickeleye Hi let me know where your located in Ventura and ill go home and check out your system.

Check your PMs

[Nickeleye]

Here are my asking prices.

(1) Yellow leather on ~1.5 lbs LR $30
(1) Small brown torch coral (4 branch) $20
(1) Large brown torch coral (7 or 8 branches I believe) $35
(1) Med. size pink hammer coral $25
(1) Med. size brown star polyp rock $25
(1) Small brown star polyp rock with green leather frag $20
(1) Large rock with small brown star polyps, pink leather frag and red sea squirt $30
(1) ~1-1/2 lb LR w/ feather duster $12
(1) Rainford's Goby $10
(1) Firefish Goby $10
(1) Royal Gramma $12

Several pounds of various LR with other various corals and sponges. $4.00/lb
Approximately 60 lbs of sand established for roughly 7 months. $1.75/lb

If your friend is willing to take several pieces I'd be willing to reduce my pricing a bit. Don't forget, pictures of all the corals can be seen in my gallery.

Your tank looks very good by the way.

[Crusty Old Shellback]

Nickeleye,
Are you looking to do any trading or just selling to get rid of some things. I'm interested in what I posted earlier.

[Nickeleye]

I'm just interested in selling. I'm downsizing to a 12 gal. so I can only keep about 1/3 of my corals and two of my fish. Everything else is up for sale including the tank and lights once I get rid of livestock, rocks and sand.

[toddfreshman]

I'll take all the rock! I live in Woodland Hills, and work in Camarillo

[toddfreshman]

Also, Is that a chiller? How much for it?

[Nickeleye]

Originally posted by toddfreshman
I'll take all the rock! I live in Woodland Hills, and work in Camarillo

I think I've got somewhere around 65-70 lbs. of the LR. About 75% of it is TBS rock and the rest is from one of my LFS's. Are you still interested in all of it?

Yes, that is a chiller, however I am going to be hanging on to that for use in any future larger SW tanks I do.

[toddfreshman]

Yep, If you can work a little on the price I will take it all from you in one shot.

[Nickeleye]

toddfreshman - Check your PMs

[Nickeleye]

I also wanted to mention that if possible I'd like to sell the corals first, then the live rock and the sand shortly after. As far as a timetable goes ... I'm looking at about 3 weeks before getting rid of the sand and a couple pieces of LR just so that I can add corals into my nano without problems.

Just wanted to mention that currently no final commitments have been made on the above items for sale, but there has been interest so stake your claims before it's too late! (sounds like an infomercial...haha)

[Crusty Old Shellback]

Nickeleye,
I'll take the Rainsford and Royal Grama and would like to see the hammer in person before making a commitment on it. I won't be available until next week though. Let me know what we can work out.

[Nickeleye]

blown63chevy - Next week is fine. Just PM me with the details when you'd be available, etc. I'll mark the two fish as SOLD and the hammer on HOLD until you have a chance to look at it. I do have pictures of it in my gallery so that should give some idea. The hammer has four branches with tentacle/balloons - 3 large and 1 small. The large branches are approximately 3" in dia. when fully inflated and the smaller one is 1-1/2" to 2" in dia. when fully inflated.


(1) Yellow leather on ~1.5 lbs LR $30
(1) Small brown torch coral (4 branch) $20
(1) Large brown torch coral (7 or 8 branches I believe) $35
(1) Med. size pink hammer coral $25 - On hold for blown63chevy to look at
(1) Med. size brown star polyp rock $25
(1) Small brown star polyp rock with green leather frag $20
(1) Large rock with small brown star polyps, pink leather frag and red sea squirt $30
(1) ~1-1/2 lb LR w/ feather duster $12
(1) Rainford's Goby $10 - SOLD to blown63chevy
(1) Firefish Goby $10
(1) Royal Gramma $12 - SOLD to blown63chevy

Several pounds of various LR with other various corals and sponges. $4.00/lb
Approximately 60 lbs of sand established for roughly 7 months. $1.75/lb

[Crusty Old Shellback]

Thanks. I've got to look at my tank and see where I can fit it. Also, how big aroung is the yellow leather. Might be interested in that one too. I'll PM you next week when I get back in town.

[Nickeleye]

I would say that from base to top it's roughly 4-1/2" to 5". When fully opened up as in the pictures. I would say it measures roughly 5-1/2" in diameter. It is attached to a piece of LR probably about 1-1/2 lbs. or so... so if you took it you might just have to break the LR so the whole piece would be smaller in general.

[Crusty Old Shellback]

Looks like I'll have to pass on it then. To big for the tank. Thanks.

[Nickeleye]

Is anybody interested in taking the torch corals or yellow leather? These are the corals I'd like to sell off first if possible.

[Nickeleye]

Originally posted by blown63chevy
Nickeleye,
I'll take the Rainsford and Royal Grama and would like to see the hammer in person before making a commitment on it. I won't be available until next week though. Let me know what we can work out.

Let me know when you would like to come by this week to get the fish. I have someone interested in taking all of my LR from me on Wednesday or Friday (I'd prefer Wednesday) so if you were able to take the fish anytime after he takes the rock that would work out the best. The biggest reason I say that is because if you can wait until then, it'll be that much easier to get the fish out of the tank since they won't really have any good hiding places and it'd make it so I don't have to rip the whole rock structure down trying to find them. I had to do that once with a pseudochromis and it was a royal pain in the butt.

[Nickeleye]

(1) Yellow leather on ~1.5 lbs LR $30
(1) Small brown torch coral (4 branch) $20
(1) Large brown torch coral (7 or 8 branches I believe) $35
(1) Med. size pink hammer coral $25
(1) Med. size brown star polyp rock $25
(1) Small brown star polyp rock with green leather frag $20
(1) Large rock with small brown star polyps, pink leather frag and red sea squirt $30 - SOLD to toddfreshman
(1) ~1-1/2 lb LR w/ feather duster $12
(1) Rainford's Goby $10 - SOLD to blown63chevy
(1) Firefish Goby $10
(1) Royal Gramma $12 - SOLD to blown63chevy

Several pounds of various LR with other various corals and sponges. $4.00/lb - SOLD to toddfreshman
** Approximately 20-25 lbs. of base rock remaining (dense pieces) $2.50/lb
Approximately 60 lbs of sand established for roughly 7 months. $1.75/lb

[GinaSofia]

have a picture of the yellow leather?

[Nickeleye]

Yellow leather pic here:
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=64052&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500

[toddfreshman]

Hey that's some nice looking rock in that picture. I looks even better in my setup! Thanks again!

Everyone, This guy is a GREAT asset to RC please feel free to contact me anytime as a reference. I just purchased over 60 pounds of rock from him. Great guy!

Thanks again,
Todd

[Nickeleye]

I will try to take a digital picture of the tank again without all of the live rock so it is easier to get a better idea of the size of the corals etc. I have them all spread out along the sandbed currently.


Todd - Thanks for the kind words

[Crusty Old Shellback]

I just picked a goby, grama and shrimp on sat morning. Had a great conversation with Nickeleye while I was there. Fish seem to be doing fine in my tank otehr than the gramma has gone MIA into my rocks for a bit. He's got some good stuff for anyone who's looking for some corals.

[Nickeleye]

Don't worry. The RG will come out. I'm sure it's just a matter of being a little wary of the new surroundings. BTW, looked at the rest of your pics in the gallery. Very nice indeed.

[Nickeleye]

Here are pictures of what's left:

(1) Yellow leather on ~1.5 lbs LR $30
Pic 1 (http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73182&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500)
Pic 2 (http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73183&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500)
Pic 3 (http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73184&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500)

(1) Small brown torch coral (4 branch) $20
(1) Large brown torch coral (7 or 8 branches I believe) $35
Pic 1 - Includes Large Torch and Smaller Torch (http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=64059&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500)

(1) Med. size pink hammer coral $25
Pic 1 (http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73181&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500)
Pic 2 (http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73186&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500)

(1) Med. size brown star polyp rock $25
Pic 1 (http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=73185&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500)

(1) Firefish Goby $10
Pic 1 (http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47002&papass=&sort=1&thecat=500)

[Crusty Old Shellback]

Nickeleye,
Finally saw the gramma to day. He's been hiding behind some of teh rocks in the back and I just couldn't see him. I actually saw him come out for a sec to grab some food. Wife is hapy now since she knows he's still alive. The goby is down low under some other rocks and I se him venture out a bit on occassion to feed. It will just take some time to adjust and let the other fish get used to them.

[Nickeleye]

Good. I'm glad to hear everything is starting to perk up a little.

[Nickeleye]

Next week I plan to have all of the corals out of the tank that I want to keep. Everything else will be for sale. I have a softball-sized pink branching leather that will also likely become an addition to the "for sale" list since I don't think I'm going to have room in the nano for it. Pictures are still up in my gallery, but I will take better ones once the tank has some more open space to set up the corals that are still for sale. I also still have the firefish goby and also several hermit crabs and snails.

[Nickeleye]

BUMP

Pink leather is definitely for sale as well as a green/pink star polyp rock.

[Nickeleye]

If there is any interest please let me know. If you have any questions or would like to see more pictues I will do what I can.

[Nickeleye]

Also, I'll sell off the firefish for $5 if anybody is interested.