I bought the tank from a fellow in Guelph, the ad said, tank,stand and sump, for 350, it's hard to find a 65 drilled tank and I wanted that size because of my T5 light.
So we went to look at it, well to our surprise it came with Sand, Rock,Power heads, return pump, skimmer, carbon reactor, heater, and even two fish, I was surprised, paid the man and took it home.
I've had some health problems as of late and am using a cane, I need two new knees and hips so carrying anything just won't work but I had to try, right, a 65 used to weigh nothing but that's all changed now, I did get some help, I washed the sand, set up everything, 6 trips back and forth to get RO water, yes it came with a bucket of salt as well and test kits lol
We had everything to start off, the heater was crap so we bought a new one and the lights were with out bulbs so I bought a dual dsuny led set with controller on the board, made a hanger unit, set it up and s bit more Rock, cycled for 6 weeks or so, the pumps are Korallias, they'll be replaced and the skimmer is a CASE 65 that's junk but it's working and will be replaced.
So I bought a couple of Clowns, snails and here we go, I'm very happy with the lights, the return pump is a jebao and a DC pump and is silent, with some mods the skimmer is silent.
I can't believe the prices of everything, I was out of the hobby for 4 years and wow have things gone thru the roof.
Everything but lights have sky rocketed, not Rock but a heater for 90 bucks a yellow Tang for 100, crazy Turbos for 5 bucks, just crazy but it's our hobby and you gotta love it.
Pictures to come very soon, promise, so nice to be back, looking forward to the show in May, nice talking to all my old friends and look forward to meeting so many new ones