New to reefing.

[Myka]

Try to find some Astrea caelata:

[BigA]

Will try to get some of the snail. Still haven't decided on the hermits.

Another newbie question. Now that my live rock that I have in the tank has gone through the brown stage, it is starting to become green. a light bright green. Is this the early stages of coraline algae growth? Is it some sort of pest algae? Should I get rid of it (scrub it off) or keep it?

[Whatigot]

Patience, Patience, Patience.
The longer you let the new reef sort itself out the less manhandling it will need in the future.
I JUST finished cycling a month or so ago in one of my tanks and I was very tempted to try and speed things up by messing around with the different algae blooms and making it look nice and neat but I refrained and now the thing is crystal clear and all natural.

I DID siphon off any detritus and crap that was obviously crap during water changes and when I had a MONSTER cyano outbreak I siphoned off the stuff that was loose but other than that I completely left it to its own devices and monitered the changes in paramaters and what obvious (or not so obvious) effects those changes had in my tank.

Now I have an arsenal of knowledge specific to the microcosm I have created and one very clear, algae free reef. (anyone else find it ironic how close those two words are???free/reef).

[ElGuappo]

Agreed paitience is the key. i am new as well started my first reef whenever my ticker says and i added LS after only 2 weeks of cycling. all survived except 2 pj cards and that was due to my negligence. i stired the sand bed letting nitrates out. only a 34G so it hurt. but when my increadibly bad cyno cycle (could only rid by douing a blackout) ended my rock did go this green as well. now 3-4 monthes later mytank looks awsome.