So!! after weeks of cycling the marine tank and muchos money spent on equipment and getting it all ready....We have the starters of a cleanup crew in!

Its a 300L tank, with circa 100L sump and yesterday we introduced:

2 red-legged hermit crabs
4 normal hermits

1 blue cheeked goby
1 sunspotted goby

1 fire shrimp

Unfortunatley! I left the OH to go get a few crabs only, and he came back with the guppies and shrimp, and also reserved a blue fingered starfish - but having read up and seeing the blue fingered star is an impossibly difficult starfish to keep im hoping he will get a few sand sifting ones instead!

Also, the sunspotted guppy MAY eat the shrimp, which would be a bugger! But its a huge tank with little competition for food so fingers crossed he wont! He is a grumpy lil bugger though, compared to the blue cheeked who was swimming about and munching sand within an hr of being free to swim about!

Im hoping to keep good photographic evidence as it grows - sadly the photos are a bit dark atm as i didnt want to scare the new residents with the flash, as they are still settling in


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Oooh, how exciting! It's lovely getting new fish & watching them settle in
Do you have a pic of the whole tank? Would love to see that

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Marine tanks are stunning. I hope yours continues to thrive and stays well balanced. I love those little crabs.

Im just at the vets gettin b-buts his boosters but will get a tank pic when i get back we r doing it all very slow its taken a month just to get the clean up crew in and will be growing it equally slow so hopefully it will balance ok!!

Tank.... we need to get more rock, they only had 12kg in the shop, plus the 10 that we had in the sump IMG_0264.jpg

This week we finished the aquascaping with the liverock! and introduced 3 little yellowtail blue damsels.

The water has remained stable which is jolly good! And if all stays well now we have a few more fish in there, we will introduce a school of green Chromis in the next week or 2! Its looking alot more active in there now - I think the extra competition for food has encouraged the gobys to come out to feed more actively, and we saw the shrimp grab hold of a HUGE armful of flake last night...first time we have seen that

Will upload pics tonight if i can get some

Imgs are a Bit big! Will repost as attachments

Looking good and a nice size too

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Have introduced a mated pair of maroon clowns, a yellow tang, silver bellied wrass and an urchin

Also shows the chromis and clue cheeked goby are getting their colour