First post!

SashimiTurtle · Mar 25, 2017

First time posting and my first dive into the saltwater side of the aquarium hobby. I've kept fresh water tanks on and off for 15+ years. I live just north east of Columbia, SC. I have a 75 gallon set up with two clowns and a small clean up crew consisting of a few astrea, cerith and nass snails, blue leg hermits a coral banded shrimp and a mithrax crab. Tank is about one month old.

No corals yet, until I saw this growing on one of my snails.

I think it's a porites, maybe a montipora? I'm not sure, it's really small but definatly a kind of SPS. Hopefully it hangs in there, it looks pretty healthy with full polyp extension.

KJ · Mar 25, 2017

Welcome to R2R;)

LBReefer · Mar 25, 2017

Welcome aboard.

JaimeAdams · Mar 25, 2017

Welcome!

Maritimer · Mar 25, 2017

Welcome aboard, Robin!

The tank's looking good, those clowns are beautiful .... and what an awesome hitchhiker to find on a snail!

~Bruce

SashimiTurtle · Mar 25, 2017

Maritimer said:
Welcome aboard, Robin!

The tank's looking good, those clowns are beautiful .... and what an awesome hitchhiker to find on a snail!

~Bruce

Thanks. The clowns were a trade in at a LFS in Columbia. I'm not sure why someone would want to trade those guys I love their colors and the female was eating out of my hand after 3 days. They are always close to each other and have taken up residence in the left side of the tank. They cruise the rocks a few times a day.
I had a bit of trouble with the rocks. I originally had one of the large pieces over on the left side of the tank, but decided I wanted to make a cave because I've become very interested in adding a golden dwarf moray in the future. So that is the structure you see on the right side of the tank. When I moved the rock over and set it in place I bumped the top arch and the epoxy gave way and it fell. It landed in the sand so nothing was harmed, but I had to run out and get some cyano glue to put it back up. My coral banded shrimp loves it, I hardly ever see him come more than a few inches out of it then he slowly crawls back in. The mithrax crab spends his days in the as well. They might get run out of there if I ever end up with an eel.