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I purchased a 45 gallon IFS reef tank 6 weeks ago and now have the following:
30 lbs of live rock
algea eaters- 20 snails, 20 hermit crabs, 2 emerald crabs, and 6 other shell crabs (like hermits but a little bigger - I forget the name).
Skimmer
2 White lights/2blue lights specifically for reef tanks
I have some new purchases, week 5 of the tank
-Feather Duster: crazy worm creature with basically a feather duster on one end.
-2 Cleaner shrimp
-1 Midas Blenny
Coral:
sarcophyton
cladiella
Briareum
zoanthid
The only supplements I am adding now are chlorine and alkalinity (10 mm of each) for the coral.
Everything seems to be doing real well...the cladiella opened up real nice the same day I acclimated it to the tank and has since closed up a little, but I have been told that it is perfectly normal and should open back up in a few days. Things seem to be going well, and in a few weeks I should be able to get more coral and a few more fish. Any suggestions at this point?
30 lbs of live rock
algea eaters- 20 snails, 20 hermit crabs, 2 emerald crabs, and 6 other shell crabs (like hermits but a little bigger - I forget the name).
Skimmer
2 White lights/2blue lights specifically for reef tanks
I have some new purchases, week 5 of the tank
-Feather Duster: crazy worm creature with basically a feather duster on one end.
-2 Cleaner shrimp
-1 Midas Blenny
Coral:
sarcophyton
cladiella
Briareum
zoanthid
The only supplements I am adding now are chlorine and alkalinity (10 mm of each) for the coral.
Everything seems to be doing real well...the cladiella opened up real nice the same day I acclimated it to the tank and has since closed up a little, but I have been told that it is perfectly normal and should open back up in a few days. Things seem to be going well, and in a few weeks I should be able to get more coral and a few more fish. Any suggestions at this point?