Salt Water Startup - Aquarium Advice

jason1985 · 07-14-2009, 01:25 AM

Tonight I added my live rock. Tell me what you think??? I will be going fish only for the first while and adding reef slowly.

thincat · 07-14-2009, 04:03 AM

Welcome, by coral do you mean Live Rock?
How large is your tank?
Do you have a pump or powerheads of any sort?
Is this the start of your "Cycle"?

jason1985 · 07-14-2009, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by thincat

Welcome, by coral do you mean Live Rock?
How large is your tank?
Do you have a pump or powerheads of any sort?
Is this the start of your "Cycle"?

25 Gallon!
Yes sorry i meant to say Live Rock. This is the start of my cycle. The substrate and salt have been going steady for a few days. All tests come back okay.

I have two powerheads but I'm yet to install them in the tank. I will do that tonight.

InfernoST · 07-14-2009, 08:25 AM

Are you using ammonia or shrimp?

jason1985 · 07-14-2009, 08:33 AM

I will be going win shrimp. Tonight I think I might pull down off the live rock and re start to make it more open space. It took me close to an hour to make this setup last night ans stable, I thought it was looking nice. I'm really picky and I don't think I want to make it that high. I will remove some of the tuffa rock from the base and lay the live rock on the subsrate. As it lays right now there are open spots all over big enough to fit fish it's just hard to see with this picture. But like I said I am slowly going to work my way up to what I want this tank to be so if tonight I have a few hours on my hands I will pull down the live rock and create a new layout.

jason1985 · 07-14-2009, 04:00 PM

Okay so I went home on my lunch and removed all the rock from my tank, hope to have time to set it back up tonight.

thincat · 07-14-2009, 04:21 PM

Be sure that your first layer of rock sits on the glass on the bottom of the tank. This will prevent "landslides" later on when you get fish or shrimp that like to dig. I hope you have the liverock in saltwater so as not to get anymore dieoff then nessasary.

jason1985 · 07-15-2009, 12:57 AM

Ok so I removed all the Tufa Rock because it was just too **** hard to get my live rock stable. So right now I'm setup with 20lbs of Live Rock and all the rock is stable. The bottom peices are sitting on the glass.

Still a bad picture, but I'll have my digital cam back soon.. Love when people borrow things and forget to give them back.

There are holes all around so the fish can go hide and play.

thominil · 07-15-2009, 01:05 AM

Looks more open and better. Nice job!

jason1985 · 07-15-2009, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by thominil

Looks more open and better. Nice job!

Now it's time to pick out pick two fish to start off and maybe a few little creature for the sand/rocks.