Our Living (room) Reef: Meet the family

So now that things are filling out we wanted to take a minute to introduce the newest family members.

So technically, two hermit crabs and two snails were our first inhabitants (not counting the bristle worms living in our rocks). We'll just refer to all of them as lower-case p "pinchies" and "slimies".

However, our first real inhabitant is Uno - top(an oceallaris clownfish), and soon to join him was Juno - bottom (also an ocellaris).

Following the two of them was KGB (a flame hawk), named for both his Red color and his habit of constantly sneaking around, hiding, and always keeping an eye on you. This guy seriously likes to watch people.

Selected for her gorgeous color was Picasso (a coral beauty). She's camera shy, but looks like this.

Around this time we added a Graboid 1 (a Green Bubble Tip Anemone aka GBTA). Graboid 1 had issues in transit to us and didn't make it... It actually puked all of its intestines up and died. This was all just to make room for the much happier but still shy Graboid 2, who was more than happy to literally take 1's place on the same rock. Uno and Juno wasted no time making it fell at home, as well as being their home.

An emerald crab joined us for a week before moving on, but has since been replaced by a second emerald crab who has a flair for aquarium design. After frequenly telling us that the green mushroom would look better on the aquarium sand band than in the hole in the rock that it preferred to live in, we've finally listened. He can be found most nights sitting in the hole on the rock, gloating at the mushroom lying on the sand below.

Rounding out our marine crew is Rorschach (a yellow watchman goby). He hasn't quite warmed up to us yet, but seems to be house-shopping some of the holes and caves in the rock of the tank. For now he prefers living behind some of the pumps and filters at the top of the aquarium.