I'm coming over!

[HenryFN]

I'm coming over from the freshwater side! Trying to just dip my toes in for now, but I know where this path leads.

Well I did have a very small 2 gallon jar saltwater aquarium years ago as a teenager and I loved it, today I know better than to take things from the wild though but I started out with tiny plant only aquariums and had great success so I'm planning on pulling that jar out of storage and getting started again, this time with more experience and resources available to me.

I've always had a love for the rejects, I have jars of snails, detritus worms, limpets and copepods and other creatures deemed pests, the saltwater unwanteds are a lot prettier though, people seem to despise their pulsing Xenia and green star polyps and blue clove polyps, even the Aiptasia and Majano anemone are beautiful to me, Asterina starfish are adorable!

I keep larger and more traditional freshwater tanks too but I think I'd like to start with a small saltwater tank with a single fairly hearty soft coral species that will blanket the rocks.

Any advice is welcome!

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Welcome to your new home for saltwater reef aquarium resources and fun! Welcome to the family! :D

 

[p1u5h13r4m24]

Hello and welcome to the hobby! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

 

[p1u5h13r4m24]

My biggest advice is find a reputable source and ask before you do anything :)

 

[edsbeaker]

Hello and welcome. I would have loved to see that little jar aquarium you had!

 

[Fish Fan]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[TX_REEF]

Welcome, there's no going back now!

 

[Crabs McJones]

Welcome to R2R!!

 

[kevgib67]

Welcome, glad you are here!

 

[HenryFN]

Hello and welcome. I would have loved to see that little jar aquarium you had!

This is the only picture of it I can find for some reason. Looking back it's pretty terrible, I kept it for months and everything seemed happy though. It consisted of a starburst anemone, blue leg hermit crab, a couple snails of some veriety and a mussel of all things, all scooped out of a tide pool in central California, sand and water and rocks all came from the beach too, I did water changes by just going and filling up a jug with seawater.

When I moved states I did return it all to the ocean and none of it died so at worst it was a kidnapping (and minor ecological disruption) and at best a vacation.

Certainly I wouldn't do something like that now but it was fun to watch the hermit crab switch shells and the snails rasp the glass and the anemone was just beautiful no matter what it was doing.

I'd like to get a hermit crab and anemone, not from the wild this time.

 

[Brisk]

Welcome!

 

[Freenow54]

I'm coming over from the freshwater side! Trying to just dip my toes in for now, but I know where this path leads.

Well I did have a very small 2 gallon jar saltwater aquarium years ago as a teenager and I loved it, today I know better than to take things from the wild though but I started out with tiny plant only aquariums and had great success so I'm planning on pulling that jar out of storage and getting started again, this time with more experience and resources available to me.

I've always had a love for the rejects, I have jars of snails, detritus worms, limpets and copepods and other creatures deemed pests, the saltwater unwanteds are a lot prettier though, people seem to despise their pulsing Xenia and green star polyps and blue clove polyps, even the Aiptasia and Majano anemone are beautiful to me, Asterina starfish are adorable!

I keep larger and more traditional freshwater tanks too but I think I'd like to start with a small saltwater tank with a single fairly hearty soft coral species that will blanket the rocks.

Any advice is welcome!

Believe me starting a tank and being on this thread you have absolutely NO idea were this ride will take you

 

[zheka757]

Welcome to R2R!

 

[Uncle99]

We’ll come on down and welcome to R2R!
This hobby…..there’s nothing like it.

 

[FrugalReeferJon]

 

[1112-425XL]

 

[MoeStachio]

I'm coming over from the freshwater side! Trying to just dip my toes in for now, but I know where this path leads.

Well I did have a very small 2 gallon jar saltwater aquarium years ago as a teenager and I loved it, today I know better than to take things from the wild though but I started out with tiny plant only aquariums and had great success so I'm planning on pulling that jar out of storage and getting started again, this time with more experience and resources available to me.

I've always had a love for the rejects, I have jars of snails, detritus worms, limpets and copepods and other creatures deemed pests, the saltwater unwanteds are a lot prettier though, people seem to despise their pulsing Xenia and green star polyps and blue clove polyps, even the Aiptasia and Majano anemone are beautiful to me, Asterina starfish are adorable!

I keep larger and more traditional freshwater tanks too but I think I'd like to start with a small saltwater tank with a single fairly hearty soft coral species that will blanket the rocks.

Any advice is welcome!

Welcome!

I too have an affinity for the less loved critters!

Check the tank thread and look at the last post

19 inverts so far (that I know of)

 

[ThisIsTheWay]

This is the only picture of it I can find for some reason. Looking back it's pretty terrible, I kept it for months and everything seemed happy though. It consisted of a starburst anemone, blue leg hermit crab, a couple snails of some veriety and a mussel of all things, all scooped out of a tide pool in central California, sand and water and rocks all came from the beach too, I did water changes by just going and filling up a jug with seawater.

When I moved states I did return it all to the ocean and none of it died so at worst it was a kidnapping (and minor ecological disruption) and at best a vacation.

Certainly I wouldn't do something like that now but it was fun to watch the hermit crab switch shells and the snails rasp the glass and the anemone was just beautiful no matter what it was doing.

I'd like to get a hermit crab and anemone, not from the wild this time.

Welcome to the salty side

That’s a really cool setup for a jar tank. The anemone as a centerpiece really brings it together.

If you like anemones and crabs, might I suggest a porcelain crab. I have one that lives in my RBTAs and I love it.

 

[jsmkmavity]