fiddledragon
Community Member
My tank has been cycling for a month, parameters have been stable the past two weeks...and so I'm starting to add bioload (slowly).
For my own reasons I'm starting with inverts, and have plans and timing for what's getting added next. The important bit is that I'm adding slowly.
Anyway.
My first non-food service job was a work study role at the LA County Natural History Museum. I was a bio major (persuing marine biology), and this job was working in the echinoderm section moving specimens from hosiery boxes from the 1940s (yes really) to clear plastic boxes. I got to see LOTS of sea urchins, brittle stars, crinoids, sand dollars, sea stars, etc...but of course they were all long dead. So for my first salt water tank, I couldn't help having my first inhabitant as a sea urchin.
My tank is only 29g so that limits the type of urchin. Say hello to my little Halloween Tuxedo Urchin
(I also picked up a couple of bumble bee snails and nassarius snails, but I'm obsessed with the urchin)
For my own reasons I'm starting with inverts, and have plans and timing for what's getting added next. The important bit is that I'm adding slowly.
Anyway.
My first non-food service job was a work study role at the LA County Natural History Museum. I was a bio major (persuing marine biology), and this job was working in the echinoderm section moving specimens from hosiery boxes from the 1940s (yes really) to clear plastic boxes. I got to see LOTS of sea urchins, brittle stars, crinoids, sand dollars, sea stars, etc...but of course they were all long dead. So for my first salt water tank, I couldn't help having my first inhabitant as a sea urchin.
My tank is only 29g so that limits the type of urchin. Say hello to my little Halloween Tuxedo Urchin
(I also picked up a couple of bumble bee snails and nassarius snails, but I'm obsessed with the urchin)
