Saltwater art at its finest!

This post is dedicated to my husband's new hobby...or should I say OBSESSION! Lately, everything out of this man's mouth is aquarium related, and he has even gotten to the point where he dreams about tanks. This sure is one expensive hobby, but hey, it could be worse. At least he's at home and I get to admire his artwork!

My underwater camera is out of commission at the moment being repaired by the good 'ol Geek Squad guys at Best Buy. These are all pics from my iPhone, but they turned out much better than I expected!

He built this beautiful custom light hood to match the stand!
Next, we added nearly 150lbs more live rock
The next challenge was to aqua scape it and make it look beautiful!
We since have added another big rock to fill in the top
Our first coral was in with the rocks we purchased and we brought it back to life. Meet our Zoanthids.(Nothing fancy, but they were free!)
Now to MY coral! This is my bouquet of Daisy Polyps! Thank you hubby!
Our brittle star. Cool, yet creepy.
Frogspawn coral! This will be a hit with our future clown fish for Lucas!
Green Star Polyps. Looks like grass and it adds so much color to the tank!
Pom Pom Zenia! It was hard to capture a good picture, but they pulsate and look like flowers!
This is Shrek, our sea hare!
He is by far the craziest little creature I've ever seen!
Our first fish! We got three of these little Chromis
Montipora cap! Excited to see this thing grow!
ANEMONE!! We custom ordered this guy. Has a beautiful red foot and vibrant blue tentacles!
Isn't this amazing?! What's even crazier is to see this thing eat...and poop. It still weirds me out that it's alive!
Camel Shrimp-really neat guys! They went crazy when we added in the anemone and fought over the poop.
Red Legged Hermit Crab! (Found him in the rocks too)
Can't forget the little guys...our little pyramid snail!
Ninja Star Snail
Sea Shell Snail

And our big guy covered in hair algae!

We also have a pair of peppermint shrimp, but they are nearly always in hiding. It's so amazing to check the tank every morning and see what's grown! I swear, we rarely watch T.V. anymore because we're always watching the tank...such a nice way to wind down the day. He's almost convinced me to convert our Cichlid tank to a saltwater as well, but we'll see. We may possibly start a small frag tank and grow some corals!

Lucas is so interested in this adventure as well! Any time we get into the car he asks to go to the fishie store, and when we're there, he runs around pointing everything out. I'm amazed at how much he knows and that he can actually distinguish specific fish, coral, or inverts. He's going to be a Saltwater Pro before he turns 2! A few nights ago, Levi was drawing Lucas pictures on his little doodle toy. He did the basic run down of animals and then started in with the fish, snails, starfish, etc. Then he drew this...

Lucas immediately yelled out "ANEMONE!"

Yep, Levi is one proud daddy!