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Well the nitrite is still very high! Been checking it every couple days hoping it will start falling soon!

Cool! Overall I am happy with the 29 gallon size. Just enough room for A few fish and some corals! We are still patiently waiting for this thing to cycle! The nitrites are off the charts right now!

Update! My system has been running for exactly one week and here are my current parameters: Ammonia-0 Nitrite-0.5 Nitrate-10 PH-8.2 Specific gravity is right at 1.024 Water is a bit warm at 83 degrees. Ive heard this can help the cycle? Anyways I've been adding small amounts of fish food and...

Cool deal. The mp10 def looks awesome!

Any reccomendations for flow? I was thinking of ordering the jbj oceanstream power heads with the wave controller. The vortech is just way too pricey! Lol

Good advice. We may look at moving things around a bit! Still several weeks I'm sure before the cycling will be close!

Definitely going reef. The nearest place to buy saltwater livestock is over an hour from our town. So we will be making a trip next weekend to get some live rock pieces to add to the system to help speed up the cycling process.

29g display. 10g sump Aqua C remora skimmer Current USA light fixture. I drilled the tank myself and built the overflow. Also I made the sump from a 10g aquarium I bought. I plan to have a small refugium in the sump. I added about 40 ibs of live sand as well as about 40 lbs of dry rock that...

After countless hours talking and showing my wife all about salt water aquaria, I convinced her to let me build up another system. I'm going to attempt to post some pictures and let you know how it's going!