2 months of having first tank

[ethibodeau]

After 2 months I figured out how to take some decent pictures of my first tank. Its a 34g Solana system.
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[Jessy]

looks nice. Though if you're planning on putting other fish into that tank later, you'll want to remove those damsels while you can. They'll beat up your other fish up

[ethibodeau]

yea, I bought them because they were cheap and I wanted to make sure I didnt kill anything expensive, and now I want to flush one of the damsels because its an ass, but I just dont feel right about it...atleast not yet. I have more rocks to buy, the back is has wasted space.
I also want growth on the back wall. I saw some purple capuerla that would look alright and help with nitrate levels

[nahtanoj]

don't flush it, offer it up for free, someone cycling a tank, or someone with a damsel only tank might want it.
are those paly's really that red? i've seen brown and green like that, but never red, they look nice.

[ethibodeau]

the paly's are brown, its the lighting the makes them look a little red in the picture. They were actually on the live rock I got from octopus garden. I didnt think they'd open like this though, thought they were half dead when I got the rock.
Now I'm trying to figure out whats next, want to get either some frogspawn, torch, or hammer coral. Thought about a sea anemone but I dont want it moving around harming anything

[nahtanoj]

i would stick to frogspawn, or hammer, or both. if you get a torch you are limited to torches because they can/will kill frogspawn and hammer. frogspawn and hammer however will have no issues in close proximity.

[ethibodeau]

I read that torches, frogspawn and hammer will all sting nearby corals that are close by. So are torches the worst in that regard then?

[nahtanoj]

if they touch other corals, they will sting them. frogspawn and hammer can touch each other, no issues. torches will kill frogspawn and hammer.
so if you wanted a variance clustered together, it can be frogspawn and hammer, but not torch and frogspawn/hammer.

[ethibodeau]

sweet info. Thank you very much. It'll be some frogspawn and/or hammer then