New Additions

I discovered lots of copepods in my tank! I haven't seen them since college biology lab. I noticed white specks scurrying along glass before the lights came on. I had to use a magnifying glass to recognized them, and I also spotted several females carrying their egg sacs. Whoohoo! I suspect that they arrived with my ISPF order that I introduced last week.

My tank is still cloudy, and it might be a bacterial bloom. It might be getting better but it's still cloudy even though I've been ...

As promised, photos of my first corals! I'm so happy! It's been 24 hours and nothing is dead (yet):

Zoanthus:


A single head of branching hammer coral (Euphyllia parancora):


I love hammer corals and plan to make them the centerpiece of my tank. This one has bright green ...

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I'm scaling up the cliff that I fell off of. Nothing unusual kept me away from Reef Addicts, but I just got lazy



The biggest news is that I added my first two corals yesterday! The bad news is that they're acclimating to the light, so my lamp hasn't turned on yet; I'll post photos later. I have a small colony of zoanthids (Zoanthus, orange with green tentacles green) and single ...

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I bought some pet r...I mean live rock on Friday!



I actually said "pet rock" when describing live rock to a friend today. Most of my aquascape is base rock from Marco Rocks, and I purchased several small pieces of live rock from a local store to seed the tank with yummy bacteria.

The live rock on the right side will eventually fill the gap near the center of the aquascape, but I have it in the open sand and close to the ...