Wayne: im definitely in no hurry...just interested in checking out the stuff on the market for my own personal edification and i figured might as well see what (if anything) it does. My bet is that it does nothing special. I will not be adding any fish for about a month or so I would imagine, at least. As far as critters on the LR I have seen a few assorted snails, one which almost looks like a small astrea snail and then some of the nasarius snails i believe...a few random pods here and there seem to pop in and out of the rock...i believe there was a small crab of some sort but i havent seen him since the first day, probably in hiding. some little feather duster worms...various sorts of calcerous algae (red, orange, purple, and pink) which i need to look up in my book; there is also a small patch of green bubble algae which showed up this AM that i am seriously considering removing, even though i like the looks of the stuff i dont want it to take over. some red macroalgae and some green macroalgae...the dead stuff i pulled off and the not as dead stuff i left on to see if it would recover...im thinking it will. no aiptasia (yet) so that is good. also a couple of sponges which i removed since i figured they were going to die having been out of water for a day and i would rather not deal with their slow death
Sam: probably mostly just an assortment of soft corals...would like to try a xenia sp. at some point, other than that nothing in particular; i have a variety of polyps/mushroomswhich i will be moving from the 20g into the 55, maybe some lps somewhere down the line as well...i figure ive got a nice long wait before i can get involved in any of that so im going to work out more specifics over the coming weeks
