My New Tank

[Micah00]

I haven't posted anything in a while and I got a new tank on Monday. It was for sale in the paper for $350. It is a 40 gal with solid oak stand and canopy. The lady had so much live rock in the poor mated pair of gold stripe maroons couldn't even swim. I ended up putting alot of rock in my 29 and a few pieces in my 55 and still filled the 40. The corals really aren't that colorful (except the hammer which went in my 55), but the rock alone was worth the price.

 

[Micah00]

I have about 50 of these it seems.

 

[Micah00]

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[Micah00]

Can anyone tell me what this is?

 

[Micah00]

You can see the male clown on the left edge of this pic, but they really still don't want to come out.

 

[Micah00]

And finally the hammer....

 

[UnderGrad]

What steal... I mean deal! That is a gorgeous hammer.

-AM-

 

[Len]

Gorgeous images, and definitely a great deal.

That polyp looks like Protopalythoa spp. to me (a zoanthid)

 

[Reef92109]

Can't Protopalythoa be poisonous and to be safe not handled with bare hands?

 

[Reef_Monkey]

beautiful tank...good luck with it!!

 

[Anonymous]

those are a deep water zoo- I had a few in the rock work in a display tank at the store I ran- you are the only other person I have EVER known of that has them. they dont do much, just really unusual looking.they're not poisonous to my knowlege- at least I nor any of the few employees I had had a problem with them.

 

[Anonymous]

Protopalythoa grandis to be specific, I think. There is some info about them included in this article:
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/ ... invert.htm