Montana. 14 gallon, mostly invertebrates, maybe. We'll see.

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Hey, I'm living in Butte Montana. It's been, and is going to be a challenge keeping a tank here due to the limited shops and services within a couple hundred miles.
Took me a good while to get any aquarium up and running. But I finally got ahold of a 14 gallon Fluval at a really cool shop in Missuola (120 mile drive) called Blue Reef.
So, now that I got the thing cycling I figured I'd go ahead a start my build thread. My intention is for this to be an invert only tank, but I've already got some other aquarist offerings me fish they want to get rid of... so we'll see.
Anyway, should be fun.
 

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Sounds like a plan! Congratulations on the new adventure!!!
 
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Oh, here's possibly the silliest photo. Still, when I turn the light on in the morning I say "hi" to the rocks.
 

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More rocks!
And I got some critters. Some hermit crabs and some snails.
Tank is cycling well.
 

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Welcome!! I was going to suggest the reef store in Missoula, I'll even drive over there myself once the weather gets better. I haven't been there since the summer, before he moved locations, so I haven't gotten to see the new store. I'm 175 miles one way through the mountains, but I thought it was worth it.

I love my Evo, I just started it recently to replace an acrylic tank.

I'll definitely be following your adventure too!
 
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I Think this is a tiny Glass Anemone. It doesn't exactly have the classic shape. Any other ideas? It must have come with one of my live rocks.
 

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