New here, 1 month old BioCube 29 (1 Viewer)

[texasbug]

Just found this site and am looking forward to local area discussions. Started my first SW tank with the BioCube 29 and it's been up and running for a month. Started w/30 lbs of LR and 30 lbs of LS. Took about 2 wks to completely cycle the tank, which I felt very lucky about. Got a lot of cool hitchhikers on the LR, some of which are still just now showing themselves. Here are my main tank inhabitants:

1. CUC consisting of 6 hermits, 6 astraea snails, 6 black ceriths, 2 margarita snail, 3 nessarius snails, 6 grass shrimp from Galveston Bay
2. Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
3. Blue/Green Reef Chromis
4. Pajama Cardinalfish
5. Maroon Clownfish
6. Green Bubble Tip Anemone
7. Naked Goby (caught in our backyard in G-town)

Hitchhikers that I've ID'ed:
1. turkey wing clam
2. 2 open brain coral
3. several Lesser Star Coral
4. feather duster
5. some kind of snail, possibly a type of whelk
6. limpet
7. several small anemones (no, they aren't aiptasia)
8. lots of encrusted sponges in various colors
9. caulerpa
10. halimeda

I'll post some pics when I figure out how on here! My LFS is Rainforest Pets in League City.

 

[cliner]

glad you found us, we've been waiting for you. Seems a good start, btw,

 

[cliner]

See the Stickied articles. Very informative. Somewhere there is a sticky about pic posting.

 

[Traclly Le Tran]

welcome!

 

[texasbug]

Seriously. I cannot seem to post pics from photobucket. Either I get an error message saying the file is too large (I'm now down to 200x150), or I get an error msg saying I'm xx KB's over my limit, or it says invalid file type. Haven't found a thread with instructions yet, but I'll keep looking.

 

[texasbug]

Naked Goby caught off our bulkhead:

baby Maroon Clownfish & Green Bubble Tip Anemone (Clown started hosting him in the acclimation bucket)

Front view of the tank today (1 month, 3 days):

pics finally!

 

[kyletc]

Hello! I'm in Texas city, close to you!!