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Just a couple of funny shots from my tank this week. First, I'm so excited to have discovered what I'm fairly certain is a new species of sea spider! I've tried to id it and I'm fairly certain that it is reef safe (but really unhappy...)



Second, I have no idea how this happened but I found a Palythoa trying to eat one of my hermits. I don't know how this happened because the Palythoas are ...

Its been one month since setting my first reeftank, in an extra hurry to house a large hippo tang that came with my used setup. You can see the details in previous posts but here's the run down. Water chemistry is stabilizing and everyone is doing well. I'm a science geek so I had to make some graphs of my progress:



I graphed the main parameters for the first 21 days and you can how ...

Its almost three weeks now since I set up my tank. If you saw my previous posts then you know that I've got an atypical setup for a newbie because I bought a tank that came with a hippo tang and lots of fully cured liverock encrusted various corals. Water chemistry is doing great!n I experienced a little nitrogen and phosphorous spike the first, probably due to a mini die off from the live rock being transported to its new home. For the past two weeks Temp, pH and alk are all very stable at good ...

Its day 10 since my 110g was setup up using liverock from a local reefer's teardown. Things are progressing rapidly, too rapidly I'm sure many would say. Luckily I skipped the bulk of the nitrogen cycle because of the rock. I never detected any ammonia and likely little NO2 (Red Sea kits have poor resolution). My nitrates built up to something like 25ppm, but two series of water changes have cut that down to 4ppm. That's important because my tank came with a large blue hippo tang and the liverock ...