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I just put in a colony of Zoanthids and a small frag of Xenia. I can’t help but get a kick out of this. To think I have animals living in my living room under my direct care, that you can only find in tropical waters. They don’t know it, but its still cool anyway.

Here are the Xenias

Here are the Zoanthids (zoos)

I may be able to get some more zoos on Sunday. I may also add some LR if I can find some that is cured that I think I can trust.

You can find some more info about the Zoanthids here: http://www.nano-reef.com/corals/?coral=3

And here’s a link for the Xenia http://www.nano-reef.com/corals/?coral=21

Here it is, the beginning of my nano reef tank. I bought an Oceanic Biocube 14 gallon tank. I also bought 7lbs of live rock, and 3lbs of lace rock. I’m sure I’ll have to go get some LR later. Just waiting for everything to settle, tomorrow morning I’ll do some test on nitrites, nitrates, ph, amonia, and salinity. So far salinity is good, from what I can tell. I have a pretty crappy hydrometer.

Here’s some updates to the tank

It cleared up a lot, I also added soem more rock and crumble to the rear chambers of the tank to help with filtering and the cycle. I had to put that book below the front to level the tank out. This is a great tank so far. I only needed to add a heater. Check out my levels after 3 days. I still need to wait for the cycle and die off, but not too shabby for my first salt water tank.
I figured out the hydrometer, always remember to read the directions and watch for bubbles.