Ipequey Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Hey all, I've met a few of you at the last ARC meeting (and will meet more at the next). Me and a few friends are working on helping me build my very first salt water tank. I've got a good deal of fresh water/tropical tanks experience, and have finally committed to trying out the difficult world of salt water tanks. We've got a 65gal tank and stand that we purchased at Fish Gallery and I'll get more details about the lights, protein skimmer, etc when I remember to make notes of all that. It's been about 3 weeks since it was at that "happy place" such that we could add fish and more. In fact we got a few melon mushrooms and candy canes (trumpets?) from Ty and Timfish (I believe...I'm terrible with names). Those were actually our guinea pigs, along with 3 free peppermint shrimp River City Aquatics gave us to eat the Aiptasia and Mojano that were on 3 of the smaller rocks that they gave us. After 2 weeks of watching those survive, we bought a few Chromis and they're still happily swimming all over the place. After taking advantage of the 1st Friday Sale this past Friday & a stop at Nikos, we stocked up on some other goodies including: 4 more green chromis 1 bicolor blenny 2 tail spot blenny 1 Six line wrasse 2 blue cleaner wrasse 2 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp 10 blue hermit crabs Everything, aside from the 2 cleaner wrasse seem to be doing ok. They tend to like hiding in the rocks, and I think one might be dead...but then, they always seem to look dead when they "sleep". Maybe they're not getting enough food? Maybe they were just too stressed out from the fish sale. Who knows. I'll be sure to post more pics as we add more fish, coral and inverts to the reef! Thank y'all for your help. This forum is amazing and I look forward to helping others once I feel competent enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sascha D. Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Good luck with your build! Here is what I see on your rocks. I hope it helps you with the names. Top left is a Torch Coral Top Right is a Hammer Coral Back Right Kriptonite Candy Cane aka Trumpet Coral Front Center Sandbed Favia aka Brain Coral I see two mushrooms on the left and one in the sand Center Sandbed Fungia Plate? It's hard to tell from the picture. It could be a mushroom as well. I can't tell what the SPS or the little cups of sand are. The Cleaner Wrasse sleeps in the rock. It will just retreat into a little bitty crevice and stop moving. The Sixline wrasse should be a cocoon spinner. It will go into a little hole and surround itself with mucus. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Looks like a great start! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 The tank looks great! That's some great progress! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ipequey Posted May 5, 2015 Author Share Posted May 5, 2015 Center Sandbed Fungia Plate? It's hard to tell from the picture. It could be a mushroom as well. I can't tell what the SPS or the little cups of sand are. The Cleaner Wrasse sleeps in the rock. It will just retreat into a little bitty crevice and stop moving. The Sixline wrasse should be a cocoon spinner. It will go into a little hole and surround itself with mucus. Ahhhhh.. good to know. He just seems to sleep a lot. As for the 6 line wrasse, he's not set up a cocoon that I've seen yet. He definitely has his preferred side of the reef though! The plastic cups were holding sand and gravel bits in hopes the mushrooms would grab onto something large such that we could glue that to the reef and not the mushroom themselves. Funny enough, when the fish we introduced, they knocked them out and sat in the cups themself (thanks blennys!) I'll be sure to post updated pics as the tank changes! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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