New inhabitants added on Saturday

Finally the tank has received its first inhabitants (after the cleaning crew and the pods, of course). Added them on Saturday the 10th, so I'm a little late posting news, sorry for that, but here are their pictures:

First, the two clownfish (A. Ocellaris), initially getting introduced to the tank's water...

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....and then swimming in their new home.  Their names are Juju and Jiji (given by wife and son), and Juju is the larger one with a larger black dot on his upper right hand side:

These two are quite funny.... they are either swimming together, side by side, or in completely opposite sides of the tank.... as if they had fought, broke up or something.  According to the LFS they are still young and both female, but in a few months one of them will become male and they will be a couple, eventually even mating in the tank if they are healthy enough.  But the fry never survive predation from other tank inhabitants so there is no chance of tank overpopulation due to reproduction.


After them came four coral colonies:

1. A quite good looking red+green zoanthus colony, here seen right after being implanted and with almost all polyps closed....

... and then after one day in the tank, with most polyps open.  Notice that in the lower left hand side of the rock they came on there is a hitchhiker.  My LFS told me it is a polychaeta (after inspecting this picture) but to me it looks more like an anemone or another "tentacled animal":

2. A green+white+brown zoanthus colony, which was shier than the previous one.  It took a lot more to open up its polyps and is more frequently closed than its red+green brother.  This picture is after one day in the tank, still semi open:

3. Also added a white spot star polyp colony, first all closed and looking like bare rock right after being added to the tank....

... and then after a day in the tank, with polyps extended.  Looks like grass, quite beautiful and nice to watch.  The real thing looks much nicer than this picture:

4. And finally a very beautiful (the pictures are far uglier than the real thing seen live, I will have to take and post better pictures than these....) mettalic green giant button polyp colony.  These polyps are roughly twice the diameter of the zoanthus polyps.  Here getting used to the tank's water....

.... then right after being implanted,  all polyps closed....

... finally opening up after a few hours in the tank.  These guys aren't shy, they open up rather quickly in the presence of light.  Seems like they don't fear predators as much as the other corals, probably they have some type of strong fish poison inside.  The picture is far uglier than they look in person, partly because it is shaky and with bad depth of field and focus:

Following my LFS's advice I'm feeding the corals only with light (11hs of 160w of Coralife 50/50) plus 5 drops of Sera Coraliquid per day in the water, and feeding the two clownfish with 6 large flakes (or the equivalent in broken flakes) of TetraMarine Saltwater flakes (has a horrible smell, by the way).

Some of the corals brought hitchhikers with them, like the "tentacled thing" on the zoanthus colony.  In this ReefCentral thread I show a picture of the bristleworm that came with the white spot star polyp colony: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1721906

When I get the time to take better pictures of the zoanthus I'll post something better here.