Salty Hands!

[Lokemer]

Ok as you know i have a 72 gallon tank, that as of today has LR in it! i bought 50 pounds of it today! Sadly i have a ton of micro bubbles in my tank, its very cloudy.

Proposed stocking so far is :1 Jawfish, not sure what type
2 clowns mated pair
2 Whip Fin Fairy wrasses
2 Bangaai Cardinals
1 Sailfin blenny
1 6line wrasse
1 hectors goby
1hi fin red banded goby


Corals
Assorted mushrooms, hopefully one large green striped shroom
Candy cane coral
Neon Pinapple trees
Plate coral

Giant green polyps


Inverts/Cuc
10 dwarf zebra hermits
15 turbo snails
10astrea snails
10 nerite snails.
1 one long armed (Dofleinia armata) anemone.

 

[Lokemer]

so i just found my first hitchiker, a small asternia anomal starfishmoving around the tank very slowly

 

[seffieuk]

Woo hoo, let the pet rock watching begin

How did the aquascaping go?

And where are the photos

Seffie x

 

[Lokemer]

Psh theyll get here soon, right now i only have 50 pounds of live rock, prpetty much bought out this one store haha.
as of today no other creatures popping out of the rocks that ive seen, only got the tiny little starfish oh well im hoping to see some life soon though.
And the rock isnt all that pretty yet, it has quite a bit of just cured rock in it so not much algae or anything.

 

[Lokemer]

Here is a full tank shot so far, not got all our sand in or all our lr right now

and here is my favorite piece of live rock so far, (soon to be moved when we get more rock)

thats all for now, other than my starfish disapeared and we have found no newcomers still

Oh i forgot ammonia still at .25

 

[seffieuk]

we have found no newcomers still

You will, give it a chance

Seffie x

 

[Lokemer]

ok found a new comer. sadly it was like a glass anemone. thank god for Aiptasia X

 

[Lokemer]

new rockscape!

found a small what i belive is a zoanthus of some sort on my rock. thats it for now though. starfish is still awol

 

[seffieuk]

When is the sand going in? And do you have surface agitation?

Seffie x

 

[Lokemer]

we do. and today i found not one but three bristle worms all crawling around on the same rock. it was pretty awesome

 

[Lokemer]

ok so tomorrow we will probably pick up more rock and if not then, then on sunday. anyway i come today with exciting news!

I came to look at the tank at about 12am last night after lights out on the tank for about an hour to find 3 snails crawling on the rocks, not sure what type but they were all the same. they didnt really have a shell they had something ontop of them that covered about 1/2 of them.

other news is, today the reading of the ammonia is (Drumroll please!)a big ol' zero, tested twice same result!!

nitrites are at .05 and nitrates are at 0 ppm?

 

[seffieuk]

Woo hoo - expect the nitrites to increase and then the nitrates

Seffie x

 

[Lokemer]

ok its been forever since an update and alot has changed.

Right now my stocking fishwise is
1 Evansi anthias
2 Black Clowns
1 pearly jawfish
1 lawn mower blenny
1 royal gramma

Corals
1 devils hand leather just added
1 rose bulb nem
1 pipe organ
1 baby mushies (spreading)
1 sun coral
1 frogspawn
1 anchor coral
1 "modern meat"

inverts
many hermits
3 mexican grazers
some astraes
1 large fire shrimp
1 anemone shrimp
1 skunk cleaner


and i think thats it!

 

[seffieuk]

Cough, cough.........and the photos?

Seffie x

 

[Lokemer]

im taking them later today. swear. its cloudy right now, just did wc. new news. pick up oragne and green ricordea and a giant bubble coral the other day