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One more shot: And the two Clownfish: And a full tank shot:

Ah! I am only guessing. The patch on the rocks is fairly far back so it's hard to get a good shot but it looks the same as that growing on a couple of the hermits. Here are two photos:

I've had a few spots of green hair algae break out (and some of the hermits are sporting green hair algae wigs). In changing my rocks, I put a lot of rubble/smaller rocks around the big ones. I realized this was a bad idea as it made it hard to clean the sand bed. So I moved all of those smaller...

Oh, that is just my RO water storage. I mix in 5 gallon buckets next to the tank (with a spare power head and heater). Good to know though!

Zoas sound good. Everything is going well. It's really fun to watch the Clownfish interact -- I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to get one fish the first time around. They are both eating well. The full-sized Mysis seem to be a bit big for their preference (particularly the smaller...

Water test today: Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 10-20 (hard to tell) I'm slowly raising my salinity back up to 1.026 -- it went down while the tank was fallow to about 1.024. I'm using 1.026 top off water to do that which apparently takes around 9 days. The Clownfish are both happy. I mixed...

I picked up a pair of Clownfish last Saturday. The larger one (maybe female if really a pair?) is plump and feisty. The smaller one looks like might be a tiny bit stunted or at least is a little skinnier than I'd like. The store recommend Mysis shrimp to fatten them up. They are eating the...

Also only minor surface algae on parts of glass that were uncleaned. So diatoms or whatever it was is gone. Everything looks clean. Seeing more purple Coralline algae. It's mostly growing on my DIY rock that I was planning on taking out. But I might leave in the piece with the most. Some needs...

I'm excited to see life! I noticed extremely small organisms on the glass and realized the "dust" I thought was on the surface when turning on the light was a large population of them. I guess pods of some sort! Really cool to see. I tested the water today and: Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate...

I might have the id wrong but they look more like this: http://www.myaquariumclub.com/small-white-spiral-specks-stuck-on-sides-of-marine-tank-607876.html Little tiny white specs on the sides of the tank mostly (maybe on rock too just can't see them). They are hard but I can crack/break them...

I cleaned the tank sides and I noticed a bunch of small white spiraling things on the glass. I saw them on the hermits too. It looks like they are Spirorbis maybe? Also there is some Coralline algae growing here and there in small tiny patches. The four blue-legged hermit crabs have shells...

Next I'll test the water, likely do a water change and get one or two small fish to do the tank transfer method before putting them in.

I came back to everything humming exactly as I left it. The 10g top-off reservoir was only about 1/2 empty. I moved the power head that was fairly close to the surface down 3-4 more inches. So that or maybe not having the usual open windows kept evaporation down more than I was seeing while...

I think that is about right. I tried it today and failed to pump up 36-46". It almost worked at around 36" but very slow and doubt it would last long (due to how long the duty cycle would be). I rethought my plan and realized a 10 gallon tote from Home Depot is $8 and can be low to the floor...

Ah! That is useful information. And my brain was off earlier -- I meant reading a ton of threads about dosing pumps where every once in a while the AquaLifter came up. I'll test it out.

That is great on the tube -- I'll try that. I think the AquaLifter will work based on reading a ton of threads of people putting it in their basement and having it pump up to their tank. But I get it's border-line. I'll try it and find out. I think the water coming down the other side will...

Do you go online for drip irrigation tubing or is that commonly in stores too? I would be hooking it up to the AquaLifter pump I'm already using (that feeds into the 1g jug currently). It is controller by the AquaHub DIY ATO controller. I'd stay w/ that for now -- don't want to rush the...

Today is the day I could have put Piero (our name for the deceased Clownfish) back into the display tank. So the tank has lay fallow enough for at least the ich lifecycle to complete. In about a month, we're going on a trip for two weeks so even though the new rock is cycled too, it seems best...

That's my problem after a year too. I live an apartment complex but nobody seems to care too much about the yard so I'm thinking of transplanting the big ones there.

Lithops are one of my favorites too: I've got some seeds to try growing them but haven't got around to it yet :). I like that they seem to be hard to kill. Although I got some from Home Depot that I accidentally seem to have killed off by not transplanting them soon enough. The ones above...