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Guess i should put some fish in there. My draw to the hobby was coral, second was the mandarin goby. So, like any responsible new hobbiest; i got a mandarin dragonet. At this point my tank was so full of pods they would snow storm the glass every 3/4 days. I also got a clown fish. The mandarin...

August 20th I Have been waiting for my Hang On Back skimmer for a couple weeks. Here at last. Jeff at Life Reef Aquatics built the skimmer out of clear acrylic. Love the HOB on the opposite side of the wave pump, Thats my idea of ideal flow right there ;)

August 19th Moved my rodi into a cabinet i made closer to my tanks. Right outside the window actually. I feed my line in the window and fill my containers in the front room. My wife is amazing and doesnt give me to much slack for it.

August 12, 2025 Lets get some corals :) (left to Right) Red Micromussa, Green Digitata, Bill Murray, Green Slimmer, Purple Millepora, Green Indo Torch. These weere the first corals i ever bought, I was so nervous i had no clue what the hell i was doing, So funny to think back on that now. I live...

From august first when i got the rock up until august 12th i did a buckets worth of tropic marin salt in water changes. There was alot of die off from the rock and ammonia and nitrite wwere showing up constantly. I had inverts and clams in the tank (hitch hikers) and was worried for their...

It took about a week of staring at the rocks before i started to give the scape a go. Heres the first iteration. Super glue and epoxy only.

August 2025: my order of live rock from Tampa Bay Saltwater arrived. 30 pounds of rock and 20lbs of sand. The rock absolutely blew my mind, it was covered in micro/macro fauna! Sea squirt, tunicate, coraline, sponge, tubeastrea, the works. I picked up the cargo from SFO shipping was easy. I want...

For the tank I got a 35 gallon cube from pet-co as well, its hard to beat half off glass. The stand is an amazon side table that i wrapped in plywood and painted with black epoxy paint.. I suck at taking pictures in the process but here's the tank and stand with my temporary HOB filtration...

To those who may be interested: Here is the journal of my first adventure into reef keeping. I'm starting this log 5 month into my tank being filled with rock and water, I will try to summarize my experience so far. Current Equipment: 35 gallon display with one Mp10 and 2 RFG nozzles. HOB...

Put me down for 1-2

Nigh time polyp extension Dendrophyllidae/Balanophyllia/ B.what though!?

Its rad, like a tubeastrea on steroids. I was hoping to nail down the species but info is scarce.

Thanks Thomas, I saw that picture but missed the article somehow. Looks like balanophyllia. Il dig around and see what else I can find about it. Iv had it for 3~4 months its never shy polyps extended mostly through the day. But at night its polyps double in length il get a pic tonight.

The base is large, half dollar size. Not like a standard sun/cup tubastrea

Rich's NPS colonies are off the hook. The top photo looks the most similar.

On the left?

So i got a single polyp nps sold to me as a bendrophyllia. I did some looking around and assume its a balanophyllia. I couldn't find much on this specific species(whatever that may be). So if anyone could confirm or not its a balanophyllia and if not what the genus/species is. (Not the fat head...

3 year cycle is monk level patience, impressive. Looks like its all coming together nice work.

Sweet thanks, iv got quite a log of testing and weird noob stuff i did written in a journal. Il take some time hopefully tonight to get it going on here.

Yeah that may be the call, just a bit of cash. It would be nice to meet some members too so yeah il make an effort to get there.