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Our new 125l tank with live rock (beginners)

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#1 ·
We're 4 weeks in now. What do you all think?

Progress pics as follows:


All the stuff once the tank was in place.


Sand in.


First few pieces of live rock.


Current set up, no fish yet, just a crab and snail that came in the rock.


Same again, different angle.


Same, going to leave it another 2 weeks then look for some soft coral.


This is 'Slug' our snail. We've only seen the crab, Leonard Crabs, the once.

Matt and Fran
 
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#3 ·
Can't wait to see this one once you have it established and get some residents in it! The rocks look great!
 
#5 ·
Reef. We added a cleaner shrimp and a hermit crab last night. Hopefully in two weeks we'll be adding our first fish if everything goes to plan. We're not rushing anything though, if it takes a bit longer than so be it. We'll upload some more photos later. Thanks for the positive comments.
 
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I feel i should warn you that the 3 corals in the photos are all nonphotosynthetic and require alot of supplemental feeding. Beautiful coral however, the chili looks great. The pink coral to the left of the chili is a scleronyphthia and often grows upside down from the bottom shelves and ledges, b/c of this they will often go "limp" and fall over when they are not filter feeding, keep this in mind when adding other corals in the future b/c it is not uncommon for them to damage themselves when "resting" on their neighbors. The orange sun polyps in the back of the one photo looks like a very nice frag, but is a very demanding coral, and it hates the light. If it doesn't open up on a daily basis then that is an indication that it either has too much light or not enough current, just keep that in mind if you decide to move it at any point in time. Hope this information is helpful and keep the pictures coming, tank looks pretty good.
 
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