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My two clownfish came in yesterday! They are Black Ice Ocellaris Clownfish. I am hoping they will bond and become a breeding pair when they get older.

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Green Star Polyps 8/2/15

Green Star Polyps 9/25/15

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Figured as I sit and wait for my fish to be delivered (they shipped today and will be here tomorrow!), I would post a picture of one of my freshwater tanks. Its a bit of a mess as I have been busy lately, but it is home to a couple fish, including an albino pleco and a few loaches (all of which are hiding right now. Look super hard to see a loach or two). I believe it to be a 20g tank.

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Unknown Zoanthid (with glue hanging off)

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Birdsnest Coral

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Full tank shot from 9/26/15. Biocube 14 w/ skimmer and uv in the back. Bioballs removed. Stock lighting.

Current inhabitants: Purple Firefish, Yellow Watchman Goby, Pistol Shrimp, Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, Peppermint Shrimp, Red Moon Snail, Turbo Snail, 2 Narcissus Snails, some hermit crabs, war coral, torch coral, hammer coral, green star polyps, birdsnest, teal birdsnest, various zoanthids, random acropora, some purple mushrooms, orange ricordia mushroom, photosynthetic gorgonian, bubble tip anemone, blastomussa, god knows what else.

Of course the fish weren’t out for the picture. The firefish is normally hanging out right in the front. Oh well.

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150g Tall laying on its back side. Will have 45g sump in stand. I acquired it used (obviously) for a great price, it just needs a good cleaning. Its much cleaner now than it looks in the pictures, but it is still a work in progress. I still need an ro/di unit, wavemakers for the tank, and the ever expensive LED lighting. I intend to keep a mixed reef in here, including some SPS corals, so the lighting needs to be super. More pictures and updates to come as I get things moving along.

If this interests you and you want to help me get this going faster, by all means donate. If not, that’s cool too :)

gofund.me/6x2ttm4m8g

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Torch Coral

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So, some exciting news. Well, at least for me. Last night I ordered two Black Ice Ocellaris Clownfish in hopes that they will pair up and I can try my hand at raising baby fish eventually. I ordered them from Live Aquaria and they are arriving on Tuesday. I have been working all day on getting their happy little QT set up as I ended up consolidating some freshwater tanks. Pics to come when they arrive

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Yellow Watchmen Goby

This little guy is a very shy fish and is great for smaller tanks. You can pair them with a pistol shrimp and they are great to watch. The watchmen goby will share a burrow with the pistol shrimp and alert him to danger.

They can be quite shy, but are very interesting to watch and look at once they get used to you being around the tank.

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Zoanthid time!

So I have these zoas that I don’t actually know what they are, but so far the best guess is Eagle Eyes. Don’t mind the awful pictures. Enjoy!

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I apologize for being missing for nearly two months. I decided to start school again and change my major from Marine Biology to Computer Science, so things have been crazy lately.

I also am starting a new tank build. 150g display tank with a 45g sump/refugium, so that has been keeping me busy as well.

Hopefully, I will do better about keeping things updated. At the very least, I can try to shove in some pretty pictures when I don’t have the time to actually type up anything.

Purple Firefish

This little guy is great for nano tanks. They don’t take up much space and they are very peaceful. Mine eats a large variety of frozen foods and spends most of the day sitting around the same spot in the tank. They do like to hide in rockwork or small burrows in the sand, so make sure to provide them with ample hiding places. These fish should be added near the beginning of a stocking list because they are shy and a more aggressive fish could pick on them easily.

They are hardy fish and great for beginners. I personally like the purple firefish over just the plain firefish because of the pretty colors, but both are nice.

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Today you get a two for one post! Let me introduce you to my Button Polyps (the green and brown ones) and Fire & Ice Polyps (red and blue ones)!

They are similar in care, so here we go. They are semi aggressive and will sting other corals, so make sure they have plenty of space. They are good for beginners though, because they can be fairly hardy and they get their nutrition mostly by photosynthesis, so you don’t need to feed them (although you can if you really want them to grow). They grow fairly quickly and reproduce by budding (where it splits off a portion to grow more).

To keep them healthy, they will need medium light and medium flow. They also benefit from Iodine supplements. If there isn’t enough lighting for them to properly photosynthesize, they will need to be fed (micro plankton or brine shrimp).

They have a beautiful color and are common in many tanks, especially in tanks where Zoanthids are favored.

Guys, this last part is very, very important. When handling these (or just your tank in general) ALWAYS wear protection for your hands and eyes at minimum. Gloves are a must and washing your hands as soon as you are done is also very important. The most dangerous is when you are fragging them or just removing them, but you should always use caution. Zoanthids can have Palytoxin. Palytoxin is EXTREMELY dangerous and will have you in the ER easily.

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Guys, guys...who is going this year?

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Green Star Polyps

This is a super small piece of Green Star Polyps. As it grows, it will spread out and look a lot like grass. It looks very cool moving in the flow of the tank. Seriously, go look them up on google. They look awesome.

They are super, super easy to keep. They just grow and grow and when it gets too big, just cut off what you don’t want and pass it on to someone else. They need medium lighting and medium flow. Though they can survive in lower lights, they will be brighter colors when given plenty of light. They are photosynthetic, so you don’t need to feed them. They are generally peaceful, though you need to make sure they don’t overrun all the other corals since they grow so fast and cover everything. You can control its growth by isolating it, like by putting it on a lone rock in the middle of sand. They can look good if you have it grow up the back of your tank. If you disturb it, it will retract the polyps and you will just be looking at the base without the flowing grass until it comes back out.

So long story short, they are difficult to kill and great for beginners, but you need to make sure they don’t take over the tank. And hey, as far as a salt tank goes, these are some of the least expensive things you can put in there.

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