30G Reef - start up to 'completion'

[MurderComplication]

I started this tank up there days ago after I cleaned it completely after my freshwater tank got ich from a petsmart pleco.... SO, I went to salt! Here's going to be a documentation of our journey. <3
My lovely little 30G tank.

 

[bettaowner]

What will you be adding in terms of live stock

 

[MurderComplication]

I'll be putting in a pair of clowns and a few Chromis once it's cycled with the hermit crabs :3
The Chromis will be going in first since they're hardier.

 

[bettaowner]

What species of chromis will you add

 

[MurderComplication]

I believe that they're blue-green chormis.

 

[FishDaAx]

Cool idea splitting the rock up like that

 

[MurderComplication]

Two days ago my friends surprised me with a yellow bellied Damsel, so he/she's enjoying swimming around the empty tank at the moment! I'll be picking up the Chromis tomorrow as well. I had a large diatom outbreak that scared me - and now it's almost cleared up. I put in an order for five hermit crabs as well to start. Do you guys think 5 will be enough - or should I add more in the future?

I've found three specimens in my live rock in the past monthish it's been set up; a snail, a flatworm (through that guy in the trash outside since it looked like one of the reef killing flatworms), and an unknown little guy. I think it might be a sea cucumber, but it's hiding half in the light, half in the live rock, so I can't really tell.