Florida girl first timer!

MsAmethyst · Jun 28, 2016

Hello!

I'm Melissa, 29, new to saltwater aquariums.

Currently cycling a Biocube29 with a start date of 06/20/16.

Planned stock:
Goby/shrimp
Black clownfish
Dottyback
Starfish

I'm really into the color purple and hoping to do a predominately purple coral tank.

I'd love suggestions for good purple corals!

Reading up and learning!

I'm in Jacksonville, Fl. I'm being guided by a great local saltwater shop.

Previous freshwaters were:
55g w/parrot cichlids, loaches, and musk turtle
38g w/ parrot cichlids, loaches
Pretty much loved parrot cichlids and really love clown loaches.
And current freshwater-
5g w/ black moor goldfish

Blackhawk Fan · Jun 28, 2016

Welcome to R2R!

Some of the easier purple corals to start off with would be mushrooms, zoanthids/palythoas, green star polyps, and purple tip frogspawn are a few that come to mind.

pugcrush · Jun 28, 2016

MsAmethyst said:
I'd love suggestions for good purple corals!

Welcome to R2R! Lots of great info on here.

Like Blackhawk said, some zoas/palys and mushrooms have the purple tone. Google purple deaths. Grow easy & can be found for cheap. Also, if you can find the purple plating photosynthetic sponge, it looks great and is a super fast grower.

What shop do you go to in Jax?

helen ann · Jun 28, 2016

Welcome to R2R! Biocube owner here too!!!

KJ · Jun 28, 2016

Welcome to R2R!

Shep · Jun 28, 2016

Welcome to the community! Make sure to post some tank pics

Diesel · Jun 28, 2016

Make sure you start a build thread in the Nano forum on here and post lots of pics.
@helen can be a great mentor to you too as she went through some ups and downs with her cube.

kschweer · Jun 28, 2016

Welcome!

Downbeach · Jun 28, 2016

Welcome aboard. Coraline algae runs pinks through purples.

BoneXriffic · Jun 28, 2016

Welcome! Its nice to meet someone who lives so close and is my age lol!

domination2580 · Jun 28, 2016

Royal gramma are Pretty fun. Purple and yellow

smokin'reefer · Jun 28, 2016

Welcome. My daughter is your age and loves her biocube. She has basically the same livestock that you are looking to do. We don't have the pistol shrimp to go with our yellow Watchman goby yet. Butt it will happen soon. and it is awesome.

Nick92515 · Jun 28, 2016

Great! Can't wait to see. I wouldn't recommend a star though, as I'm sure many other will agree. But its your tank just research everything, it's a slow hobby. Good luck!

4FordFamily · Jun 28, 2016

Welcome home, you will love it here! I'm 30 in August.

themcnertney · Jun 28, 2016

Blue clove polyp would give a nice blue, purple color. It covers most my rock and I really like it.

I have to go to Jacksonville (actually fernandina beach) in a few weeks for work. I work on boilers and have been doing some work on one of the two paper mills on the island.

dbl · Jun 28, 2016

Welcome to R2R fellow Floridian. There are a couple of purple Gorgonians that are pretty, and will add a little movement to the tank as well.

G8trBait16 · Jun 28, 2016

Welcome to R2R Melissa! Always good to have another person from Florida here! If you need anything, just ask, everyone here is always willing to help out.