I've had a 30 gallon salt water tank in my living room for nearly four years now taking up the space where a flatscreen could go. For most of that time it has existed as a semi-regularly maintained natural, sparsely inhabited, nano reef.
But something made me decide a few days ago to order a bunch of stuff from liveaquaria.com. Everything showed up today, alive and in great condition. The flame angel was alert and happy right out of the box - I was expecting them to look near comatose. This video is from about an hour after everything was added to the tank.
Before today I had a tomato clownfish, anemone, cleaner shrimp, a dottyback pseudoschromis, a turbo snail, two astria snails, and two red-legged hermit crabs.
Today I added:
1 - small flame angelfish
1 - yellow clown goby
1 - red scooter dragonet (male)
1 - red spotted goby
3 - bumble bee snails
2 - nerite snails
2 - turbo snails
2 - cerith snails
2 - banded trochus snails
1 - small marble sea star
1 - pom pom crab
1 - pink dwarf colored feather duster
1 - small red pincushion urchin
7 - mushroom corals including a blue Ricordea florida
you got some cool stuff growing in there too.
jkehaya 1 year ago