First reef! 15 gallon Innovative Marine

[be_ninja_pancake]

First post about my tank! Will send updates here along the way. (If anyone ever has any suggestions/concerns, please be nice! I’m doing as much research as I can and am open to constructive criticism).

I allowed the tank to fully cycle for about a month, then I added my corals and fish!

Front shot:

Bam-Bam Zoa:

Blasto:

Green star polyps (GSP), which I added to the back of the tank because the hermit crabs kept flipping it over:

Phoenix, the fire dartfish:

The Simin yellow watchman goby and Garfunkel the pistol shrimp:

Rob Zombie (left) and Clash (right), the nassarius snails:

Sebatian and Tamatoa, the hermit crabs:

Phoenix making a cameo in this photo:

And my newest member of the tank, Patrick the sand sifting starfish (note: a couple of his limbs are smaller because the pet store I got him at had a wrasse bully him, so I got him like that):

That’s my family so far! There are some cheato algae, a hermit crab, 3 zoa frags (pink diamond, spyro, and scrambled egg), a duncan frag, and a sinularia frag on the way.


I’ll update this thread as often as I can! Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.

I’m so excited to join this community!

 

[JC1977]

If you had posted this in the meet and greet forum you would have gotten more greetings from the members but no worries lol. Anyhow looks like you’re off to a good start look forward to seeing your progress!

 

[be_ninja_pancake]

If you had posted this in the meet and greet forum you would have gotten more greetings from the members but no worries lol. Anyhow looks like you’re off to a good start look forward to seeing your progress!

Haha I didn't know if the tank build thread had to be separated from the greeting forum, so I just posted both. Thanks! I'll be sure to update whenever I get something new in.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Nice looking tank!!!

 

[be_ninja_pancake]

First post about my tank! Will send updates here along the way. (If anyone ever has any suggestions/concerns, please be nice! I’m doing as much research as I can and am open to constructive criticism).

I allowed the tank to fully cycle for about a month, then I added my corals and fish!

Front shot:

Bam-Bam Zoa:

Blasto:

Green star polyps (GSP), which I added to the back of the tank because the hermit crabs kept flipping it over:

Phoenix, the fire dartfish:

The Simin yellow watchman goby and Garfunkel the pistol shrimp:

Rob Zombie (left) and Clash (right), the nassarius snails:

Sebatian and Tamatoa, the hermit crabs:

Phoenix making a cameo in this photo:

And my newest member of the tank, Patrick the sand sifting starfish (note: a couple of his limbs are smaller because the pet store I got him at had a wrasse bully him, so I got him like that):

That’s my family so far! There are some cheato algae, a hermit crab, 3 zoa frags (pink diamond, spyro, and scrambled egg), a duncan frag, and a sinularia frag on the way.


I’ll update this thread as often as I can! Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.

I’m so excited to join this community!

I did NOT mean to add that last picture :grinning-face-with-sweat:

 

[be_ninja_pancake]

Nice looking tank!!!

 

[be_ninja_pancake]

Both my Chaeto algae and Halloween hermit crab came in today!!! So excited to introduce Mr. Krabs to my tank :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes: