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Hi, I'm new to 3reef. My name is Nick. I have recently started a salt water tank with my roommate, and we are always on the search for information. Figured joining a forum would be a good idea.

Anyways, on to the fun stuff. I work at an animal hospital, and about 10 years ago we did a big remodeling of the building, in the process the old hexagonal 85 gal tank was put in the basement, and replaced with a nice bowed front corner of the room tank.

So back in April I asked the veterinarian that I work for if I could buy the tank from him to start a saltwater tank. Long story short I ended up trading him a glass pendent with a piece of moldivite encased in it for the aquarium. The stand needed a little work as it had started to get some surface rust, so I grinded it down and repainted it black. here are some pics of the tank:






We still need to add a few lbs more of live rock and get a real lighting system going before we go much further. I'll show pics of our creatures in the next post

 

Welcome 2 3reef.

 

welcome to 3reef grenade glass. but please keep the pin in.

 

We started our tank with 2 tomato clown fish. I think they are bullet proof fish for starting a new tank. They grew a LOT. Here is the original "Ally and Bane":





A few days ago Gregg and I agreed that we really wanted a pair of true percula clown fish instead. So after talking with the owner of the LFS he agreed to take back our tomatoes and give us store credit towards the true percula's. Here are the new "Ally and Bane", they are very hard to get a good pic of, as they move constantly since they have not setteled into the tank yet.





We also have a yellow tipped damsel named "Chuck Norris":





And our juvenile Emperor Angel Fish "Dr. Doom":

 

Welcome to 3reef.

 

What does that mean?

 

pin outta grenade and glass tanks. dont work well together. bad attempt at humour

 

On to the invertebrates! we have a few, and one unknown that maybe you guys can help identify once I get a clean picture of it.


To start out, we have 2 turbo snails:







An Pom pom crab (or anemone crab as ive heard it):









A brittle star fish:







2 Coral banded shrimp, which have clear purple bodies. I love these things!:







and a bunch of different hermit crabs. we have a electric blue striped hermit. He just switched into the coolest empty shell we have in the tank, I need to get a new pic of him. these are him in his original shell:






^^^ this is the new shell he moved into!

We also have a Hawaiian zebra hermit (which has white stripes and is smaller then the electric blue):





and another one with red legs and eyes, no picture of him though

 

ahhhhh, i get it now went right over my head, I just woke up the brain isn't really functioning yet

 

thanks for the welcome guys! I just went out of my room, and the electric blue hermit crab was in a great spot for some photos, so ill upload them in a little bit.