Hello Everyone.
My name is Karina.
I started my first salt water aquarium in March 2010. Here is a link to the photo album
Karina's Aquarium .
I am completely new to this and I need as much advice as I can get. I have gotten everything in my tank, including premixed salt water from a LFS near my home. I've been monitoring the temperature with an in-tank digital thermometer, testing the water chemistry and salinity to make sure everything remains in proper range. I have noticed a bunch of potentially new things in the tank that I either did not know hitched rides on the live rock or somehow got into the tank by another means.
Red Sea Max 130, 34 gallons (29 after filter media etc)
about 20 pounds of live sand
about 23 pounds of live rock
2 Clown Fish
12 Hermit Crabs of the original 15
5 Turbo Snails
3 Smaller Snails of the original 5
2 Duncan Coral
1 Green Star Polyp
1 Green Candy Cane Coral (?)
1 Green Zoanthid Coral
1 ??? Coral (looks like a small kidney with tentacles)
My name is Karina.
I started my first salt water aquarium in March 2010. Here is a link to the photo album
Karina's Aquarium .
I am completely new to this and I need as much advice as I can get. I have gotten everything in my tank, including premixed salt water from a LFS near my home. I've been monitoring the temperature with an in-tank digital thermometer, testing the water chemistry and salinity to make sure everything remains in proper range. I have noticed a bunch of potentially new things in the tank that I either did not know hitched rides on the live rock or somehow got into the tank by another means.
Red Sea Max 130, 34 gallons (29 after filter media etc)
about 20 pounds of live sand
about 23 pounds of live rock
2 Clown Fish
12 Hermit Crabs of the original 15
5 Turbo Snails
3 Smaller Snails of the original 5
2 Duncan Coral
1 Green Star Polyp
1 Green Candy Cane Coral (?)
1 Green Zoanthid Coral
1 ??? Coral (looks like a small kidney with tentacles)