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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 ...

My rocks arrived! Creating an aquascape was a little more challenging than I expected. My first attempts at stacking a bunch of rocks looked exactly like a stacked bunch of rocks. I had a specific vision in my head, but my early attempts were not cohesive. After an hour of playing with them and some great suggestions from my roommate, I got something I like, but not quite final:



My basic vision is to be mindful of negative space, use the rule of thirds ...

I collected more equipment from fish stores and online the past few days:

AquaticLife T5HO 2x24
Ebo Jager 50w heater
AquaClear 70 Power Filter
Test kits
Refractometer



My setup philosophy is that I will start out with basic but capable equipment, and I can add more to supplement instead of replacing them. For example, the AquaClear filter is providing a lot of flow on its own, but if it proves not to be ...