Ogre's 46g Bowfront Reef

I ended up leaving my whelks in without any problems. They stirred up sand for awhile and served as yummy food to the second shipment of CUC... (Oh, I got my LR from Richard too...this is why I'm posting).

When do you get the second shipment? You are going to fall out!!! So excited!

I just the first batch Friday afternoon. I'm still cycling.
 
Everything sounds good so far ogre. I came really close to ordering from TBS, and would like to in the future. Sounds like a good way to get a pretyt large amount of diversity into the tank. I went with about 75% dry base rock and a fishless cycle (dosing ammonia) which worked and saved a lot of money, but I think I do lack a lot of microorganism diversity by doing it that way.
 
NEW PICS

Lexie, X-boy and I spent about two hours watching the tiniest little crab we've ever seen. His big claw was about an 1/8 inch and he would stick it out of his hole and grab stuff to eat. We spent another hour going, "That's cool. What it is it?"

We believe we've IDed the little crab as a red or green Mithrax crab.

The big sponge, I believe, is dying. Parts of it are beginning to turn white. I've found some dead stuff and pulled it out.

The first is X-boy looking at his new TV
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Some other coral mass
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Cup Corals
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