Day 4: Discoveriess

Parameters:
Temperature 74 F.
Salinity 1.020 Went up! - Great

Heater that I brought from another tank broke. I need to get a new one.
I found out that the thing that was on top of one of the rocks turned out to be another anemone. Today it was inflated to twice the yesterday's size!
We discovered some strange things (one like a crab another one like a ball of slime on the rocks.

I fed the fishes with some live brine shrimp. They can't take them at once. They put them in their mouthes and then spit out and take in again until they swallow the whole thing.

Day 3: Adjustments Day

Morning Parameters: Evening:
Salinity: 1.018 Salinity: 1.019
Temp: 73 F. Ammonia: 0.0
Nitrate: 0.0
Ph: 8.2

Today I cleaned the salt from the bulbs.
Fed the fishes. They took flake food readily.
Anemone appears to be alive and acclimating well
Afternoon: I put the filter on. It blew off the anemone from the wall. I hope she is fine. Fed the fishes a bit more.
Anemone crawled behind the liver rock she seems fine.

Evening:
I bought salt.
Dissolved salt in a water to .032 salinity.
Added the declorinator to the water and poured the water into the fish tank
That raised the salinity to 0.019.
Added 25 drops of iodine supplement to the water.

Day 2: Rest Day

Water Temp: 78 F.
Noticed that the anemone appeared in the corner of the tank.
Let her alone. The fishes seem fine.
Didn't do anything.

Day 1: Setup

I went to the Bronx and met the guy. (I'll drop 'I' in the beginning of the following sentences):
Disassembly:
1. took a big bucket and scooped about half the tank out in it.
2. transferred live rock into the bucket with water
3. took another bucket and scooped some water into it.
4. transferred anemone (the only one I could find into that bucket)
5. Took an empty container and scooped the fish with some water into it.
6. Let the container float (closed) in the bucket with water. Closed bucket with cap.
7 Brought both buckets, & fishtank with some water in it home by car.
Re-assembly:
1. Put a tank in my room on top of the piece of furniture between the windows.
2. Scooped some more water into the tank.
3. Put some live rock back into the tank
4. Hid a bottom filter among the rocks and connected airline to it.
5. Put the rest of the rocks in and poured the rest of the water.
6. Cleaned the buildup from the inside of the tank walls with a piece of a paper towel.
7. Let the container with the fish float on the surface (opened).
8. Some time later started to pour water from the tank to the container to less stress the fish (just a pre-caution, that was all the same water they were in so just the temperature could be the factor.)
9. Poured the rest of the water into the tank from another bucket.
10. Let the fish float back into the tank.
11. Put the cover on top of the tank.

My First Marine Aquarium

I found this guy on http://newyork.craigslist.org/.
He offered a 10 gallon marine tank with fishes.
I got it on 3/27/08