Tank Update

Here is an updated photo of the tank. Everything has cleared up nicely. Most of the cyanobacteria is gone. I have tons (thousands) of amphipods--tiny little bugs that are too small to photograph. The coralline algae is turning nice and red and purple. I have a patch that was neon green a couple days ago, but it is starting to turn purple.

(These are all good things that indicate that things are progressing nicely)

BUW!

Big Ugly Worm

Found this a couple weeks ago. Apparently they can get 7 feet long and eat everything in your tank, or simply eat garbage and go unnoticed for years. I am betting that I have another one somethere in the tank.

Hermit

This is one of the blue-legged hermit crabs I added this past weekend. The blue coralline algae has colored up nicely. If you look just to the left of the hermit crab, there is a little red tuft--it is a tube worm of some kind. They extend little fans out of the tube to catch particles of food floating by.

Foraminiferans

Interesting little spikey red patches, about 1/4 of an inch in size.

Are they plants? Animals?

No, and no. They are in the third category, Protists, which includes amobeas, chlorophytes, and slime algae (which is also growing in my tank).

More rocks.

Here is a close up of the tank.

Rocks in the Tank

Last week I added salt, sand, and some rocks.