Our Aquarium in Progress

   I previously wrote of our aquarium in "Our Fish Tank to be.." and decided to write an update today as we have made some progress. We have a 55 gallon aquarium in our living room that we recently began preparing for a marine community tank. A project that will take a considerable amount of time to build. We added the saltwater and live sand to get it started along with a filter and a heater.

It got so hazed over after we added the water and sand that you couldn't see an inch into the water. It stayed that way for a few days before clearing up.

   

 We then added a power head to create the waves that the fish are use to being in which made it foggy since we had stirred up some sand. Something caught my eye that was "swimming" through the water..

This little guy was swimming from one side of the tank to the other. A Plastic-Jellyfish that we named "Tupper". This was a little plastic cup that we had used to scoop some water that had been left behind. Ha Ha.

  Now yesterday is when we really started to get to make moves with it. We picked up two beautifully intriguing live rocks, three Emerald Crabs, and three Sally Foot crabs!

This is the baby Emerald Crab that is acclimating in the bag in the tank before we put them in.

This guy to the right is the social Sally Foot. He seems to like to be the first one spotted in the tank.

This is the Emerald Crab that usually hides under the live rock on the right side of the tank.

This is the Emerald that hides in the rock on the left side of the tank.

The shy Sally that hides under the rock on the right at the very back. She will run back to her cave if you move anywhere in the room.

The aquarium as it sits now. It may not seem like much so far but I am happy with it. Patience :)

I will post more as it gets built up.