You guys are super welcoming! I appreciate it. My sand bed looks pretty bad when I woke up today (I turned my light on when I left the house today, I'm in nursing school. Currently in Pharmacology) but the rocks looked pretty clear. I have one pretty big snail that's super awesome at cleaning the rocks. I can only find the two I just bought and not the first two I purchased. I know I need to take this slow, but before I posted this I'd already ordered some new Zoanthids. I got some La lakers, captain americas and BBEB, but the seller shipped them priority instead of next day air so they will be here tomorrow. I purchased on Monday, they shipped Wednesday. Is there anything I need to do to prepare my tank, and any special way to acclimate them? They've been without light for awhile, so I'm worried about that. I usually put them in a tall bowl I have (I also make cookies in this bowl, don't tell my kids) and then pour a cup of tank water in there every 10min or so. I use this bowl because If I use my 5gallon bucket usually there's not enough water in the tank to cover the bottom and the coral. So I use something else. I acclimated my snails, crabs and toadstool like this and they were all okay, but I know some people drip acclimate and I don't have that ability.
I know a lot of you dip corals probably. I don't have anywhere locally I can get something like that as my LFS doesn't dip their corals and these zoanthids should be here tomorrow. What should I do?
How do you all feel about pico tank jars? I've seen a lot of videos on youtube and I think it's so neat! Is it an expert only thing though? Just curious if anyone's ever done one.
