55g

[Dustinmicks]

Hey all, I'm from London Ontario Canada, started this tank around May, acquired everything slowly and cheaply used, first time with saltwater. Everything seems to be going well, currently the tank is occupied by:

Kenya tree
Couple gsp
Small zoa
3 strawberry conch snails
3 or 4 nassarius snails (plus at least one baby! Saw him just yesterday)
Bubble tip anemone
Yellowtail damsel
Another damsel that seems to have disappeared without a trace...
Algae blennie
A pair of clownfish, (one is a massive jerk and makes my hands bleed )
Tuxedo urchin (doesn't seem to be moving as much lately)
A bunch of random smaller and large snails
Feather duster worm
Sand sifting starfish (his mate lost a leg then shortly after disappeared)
2 serpent starfish
Few small hermit crabs (lost a giant blue hermit and Halloween Hermit in the same day last week)
Giant 3" Dolabella sea hare (demolished my algae and I've gotten him to eat nori recently)
And my newest addition a cute little copperband butterflyfish (having trouble getting him eating, but I'm trying to be patient)

Here's a few pics, old and new
I'm sure I've missed a few things. Enjoy! Any advice throw it my way

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Tank looks good so far, the cat seems to enjoy it a lot as well

 

[blaxsun]

A fellow Canucker - welcome!

 

[Dustinmicks]

After a 5 day hunger strike I finally got this guy to bite some brine shrimp off the surface of the water. The other day I put in a tank divider to make him more comfortable and popped in a few freshwater cherry shrimp juveniles, he got really excited and started shaking his head like a puppy, but wouldn't eat them. Today I put in some frozen brine and bloodworms and he pecked at a few pieces of the brine, then once I turned the pump back on he started pecking at the floating brine shrimp and hunting around the tank more intently.

So far my feather duster worm has survived but I caught him pecking at that too. I was leaving it in there as an emergency food source in case he was difficult and needed it to survive but it might be time to pull it out and put it in the other tank or it might not be long for this world.