When you eventually get coraline algae along with your corals and fish then the rockwork will only become a backdrop anyway. I'd leave it as it is, like I said when the corals are in and flourishing the tank will take on a whole new appearance. It looks good.
a couple of my hermits have already upgraded their shells with nice new ones I placed in the back of the tank.
Oh and a cleaner shrimp. I think Ive only got room for one more fish and have not quite made up my mind on that yet, but it wont be for another few weeks, not until I'm sure the other have settled in ok. Any suggestion ?
I'm already makig plans to upgrade this set up to a 3ft tank..lol **ADDICTED** 
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GGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR God these fish are hard work, I'm used to fish that arrive starving and almost climb in the packet to get their own supper. Not ones that sulk for days and spit out everthing you offer them.
Thinking that the common clown was unlikly to live anyhow I put it in the 8 gallon and have spent all week trying to coax him to eat Eats tonnes now after spitting everthing out for the first 3 days. The Blenny is just fantastic, so cute and cheeky, hes always eyeballing me through the glass to see what I'm upto. He was quite thin when he came but hes eating well and seems to be putting on weight . Just need to sort out overtank lighting which I'm working on grrrrgrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I cant put him back in the main tank, even when I upgrade as after doing a bt more research I find Tomatto clowns are known for being aggressive. And what with a 100 gallon tank in the living room plus the 8 gallon nano underneath, th 16 galllon in the dinning room and 2 x 3ft in the utility plus two more 2.5ft on their way I dont need any more tanks Hubby is already moaning about the electric bill..lolWe went last year to GBR and it is totally amazing. Even saw a clownfish hosting an anemone. mega.
We are just an ordinary joe bloggs family and are not blessed in a monetary sense, so we had to scrimp and save for such trips. But I tell you if there ever comes a point in your life whereby you get the opportunity to go to Australia and visit GBR then grab it with both hands.
This is where we stayed for a couple of nights.
http/www.ladyelliot.com.au/
Good to see the tank is comming along nicely even though six numbers on a saturday night would help.
I'm following the thread daily.
Regards
BigC
pity global warming is taking such a toll on the reef Just goes to show you how pics can be deseptive..
The common clown is the one that has been clinging to life all week. Finally took some frozen brine shrimp today thank goodness, after only managing to get live baby shrimp down him all week. he never ate a thing for 3 days. I got them sent up from london by courier as the shop thats nearest to us (40 miles away) never has much in as far as marine goes. The little clowns mate died within half hour of me putting him in the tank. I bought the tomato clown the next day from the above mentioned shop with the scooter blenny. They got on fine at first and the little common clown picked up a bit, but after a few hours the tomato, aware that the common was not so good started to pick on him
The tomato clown arrived in great health , photos are a bit strange as the fish is mental!!!..lol it wont keep still for a second and when it sees the camera it either head butts the glass or hides behind a rock, thats why I only have 2 rubbish pics..lol Hes a stunning little fish if not mentally challenged
As for the tank its running great, no test issues what so ever, no evaporation problems either. Keeps a steady temp never above 82 even when its hot outside and the lights have been on for hours, I also have a back up built in fan if it does get a little hot. I just bought 2 30" tanks, one is for another plec holding tank and the other will be an upgrade for the marine
The corals are also a bit of a stress, one keeps trying to open and the hermits jump on it...lol so it goes back in
I have had 3 fish-houses to date at different locations (house moving) each one more elaborate than the last. The last one was 10'x8' timber I built from scratch (not prefab) I had three teirs running all the way around and a bank of tanks in a centre island. I also incorporated a large pond, constructed by making a reinforced plywood box, decked it out internally with 1" polystyrene and lined with a light blue pond liner (for visual purposes) this I used for rearing semi adult fish to maturity.
/www.brineshrimpdirect.com/c123/What...hrimp-c119.html/www.aquarist-classifieds.co.uk/php/detail52_29646.phpYour sure are blessed with such beautiful surroundings, We are booked to come over again next March and on the Iteinery is to visit GBR and to bob into a certain fish and pet epourium in Brisbane. Se you then
I have been putting a little extra food in for them as it is obvious by how clean the tank is that they could do with a little extra.
hes taken to attacking anything that gets near or on his corner under the powerhead. Even the smallest piece of spaghetti algae stuck to the powerhead inlet gets him in a rage and he can spend 20 mins picking it off swimming round the front of the tank and dropping it, only for it to be blown right back round by the current.. lol On the not so good side he has also started attacking some of my soft corals 
So with that and the issue of my other clown to think of and his nasty little habit Ive decided to get rid of him. He was looking so well too and now this. Anyway I caught it quick and treated him within 12hrs of seeing it so hes on the mend again. Hes so cute.. he swims like a mad thing when he sees the feeding tube go in and sucks the food right out of the end..lol Looking forward to getting him in the big tank when the other clown has gone. I'll also get another 5kg of live rock too to fill it out a bit, though the reef bones that are in with the common clown have already seeded really well with coraline algae and look pretty good so i'll be using them too. Luckily though all have survived being posted and most are growing really well despite my rubbish lighting.
