Our SaltWater Tank

We were haveing a problem with Green Bubble Algae
We had read in a couple of different places that Green Emerald Crab were one way to deal with this.
So we ordered 10 Green Emerald Crabs from reeftopia.com.
They were far cheaper then any LFS.
In a few weeks all of the Green Bubble Algae was just gone and we had a LOT of it. While some people will say that crabs don’t belong in a “REEF TANK”.
We have never had any problems with Green Emerald Crabs.
Of course we may have just be very lucky.

Green Emerald Crabs are a blast to watch. They just scurry about the tank.
Sometimes they will disappear for a few days and then there they are.
We have 30+ pictures of Green Emerald Crabs here

Order: Corallimorpharia ( Mushroom false coral )

Some of the common names are mushroom rock, hairy mushrooms, metallic mushrooms or simply shrooms.
Corallimorphs come in many forms and colors and this makes them one of the most collectible reef animals.
Colors range from Green, red, to blue and purple. Oral disks can be smooth, striped, or pimply.
Though corallimorpharians rely primarily on their photosynthetic zooxanthellae for nutrition, lighting is not much of a problem.

They are very easy to care for and will spread if allowed.
You can see more of our Mushrooms HERE

Although Sea Anemones look like flowers, they are predatory animals.
These invertebrates have no skeleton at all.
They live attached to firm objects in the seas, usually the sea floor, rock, or coral, but they can slide around very slowly.
Sea anemones are very long lived.
Hermit crabs sometimes attach sea anemones to their shells for camouflage.

There are over 1000 species of anemones found in coastal waters worldwide, in shallow waters (including coral reefs), and in deep oceans.

Clown fish always live near anemones; they are immune from (and protected by) the stinging tentacles.
The clown fish help the anemone by cleaning the tentacles (as the fish eat detritus) and perhaps by scaring away predators.
Sea Anemones come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. Radially symmetric, they have a columnar body with a single body opening, the mouth, which is surrounded by tentacles. The tentacles protect the anemone and catch its food; they are studded with microscopic stinging capsules. Sea Anemones are usually about 1 to 4 inches (2.5-10 cm) across, but a few grow to be 6 feet (1.8 m) across.
We have not had to much sucess with anemones from the LFS but the last one we got from
reeftopia.com
were far healthier the any we have ever see at the LFS and are doing very well.

Click HERE to see more of this Sea Anemones Pictures

This is a quick and dirty tank.
I am building a DIY greenhouse and needed a lot of tanks CHEAP.
It is made out of 3/4″ plywood and 1/8″ plastic used for shower stalls.
You can build it to whatever size you need.
Easy to cut holes wherever you need them.

The best part is that nothing has to be perfect.
The outer plywood box is just for structural strength!
The inner plastic box needs to be cut close but any oops can and will be covered with caulking.
The tank above is 4′ x 2′ x 1′.
Total cost of the tank above was less than $30.00
Sheet of 4′ x 8′ plywood $23.51
Sheet of 4′ x 8′ plastic

Elongated stalk with flat oral disc. A row of tenticles radiates from the disks outer edge.
They produce a substance known as palytoxin (Mebs, 1989) that is one of the most toxic naturally occurring poisons known. Symbiotic algae provides the majority of their nutritional requirements through photosynthesis. Also weekly feedings of brine shrimp. My polpys eat like pigs!
You can see the rest of the pictures HERE