How many different creatures does your marine system have?

[vlangel]

There is so much diversity in the ocean which is often the lure for SW aquarists. I have certainly succumb to wanting to keep a variety. The challenge is meeting the needs of each creature. In my system I needed 2 display tanks hooked to the same sump to do that. I have a crocea clam, LPS, ( frogspawn, hammer, blastos, Duncan's and wellso brain), 3 rbta, curlique anemone hosting a candy cane pistol shrimp, yellow polyps, blue clove polyps, various mushrooms, palys, 5 fish, a serpent starfish and a multitude of hermit crabs. That is in the 36 gallon tank. The 30 gallon tank houses a pair of H. erectus seahorses, a pair of red banded pipefish, a variety of leather corals, mushrooms and clove polyps, an Atlantic cucumber, a green lettuce nudibranch, peppermint shrimp, and a variety of snails. I relish each creature and the unique characteristics that they exhibit. Share your favorite creatures!

 

[vlangel]

Oops, I forgot the candy cane coral in the 30g.

 

[Waters]

A lot of my favorite creatures are things that I didn't know that I had that appear or grow on the live rock.....you never know what you have living or hiding that will emerge at some point down the road (hopefully all good of course :smile: )

 

[vlangel]

A lot of my favorite creatures are things that I didn't know that I had that appear or grow on the live rock.....you never know what you have living or hiding that will emerge at some point down the road (hopefully all good of course :smile: )

Serendipitous creatures are cool, as long as they are 'happy' accidents as opposed to 'unhappy' accidents like aiptasia.