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Well I'm experiencing my first algea blume with a SW tank. It may be coincidental, but a day after I added my first fish and inverts to the tank algea started to grow. The brown algea is growing on everything. It looks like diatoms to me, but what do I know. I did a PWC today and plan to do...

Well I purchased two ocellaris clown fish today. I floated their bags for 30 minutes and then drip acclimated them for 3 hours. They seem to be doing great! When should I introduce a clean up crew? Do you wait for the first algea blume or should I do it now?

My water parameters look great, so I'm going to add two percula clown fish which were tank raised. My family is very excited to add fish to the tank. I tested the water today and everything looks great! Wish us luck!

Cured Fiji LR for $5.99 per lb I purchased 30 lbs of Fiji LR rock for $5.99 per lbs. The tank now has 50lbs of rock total. Here's a couple of pics. Please let me know what you think. I tried to make lots of ledges and tunnels and not just a solid wall of rock.

Timing is everything as they say. Since I initially setup the tank, I have had to travel from Seattle to Las Vegas during the week and the power has gone out twice. Fortunately there was only one raw shrimp, so it wasn't a big deal. I'm hoping to purchase my cured live rock tomorrow. How...

The shrimp is decomposing fairly quickly and the smell is almost gone. The ammonia is still creeping up and unfortunately I had to leave on a last minute business trip. Therefore I will not be able to test the tank until Thursday when I get home. Due to travel and lack of uncured LR at my...

Well the shrimp has now been in for 24 hrs and my wife is pissed, because of the smell in the house. I'm actually quite surprised that the smell is as bad as it is. Normally I think that she is a little to sensitive, but she's right this time. It's ok though, because in the end it will have...

$1,300 into tank, stand, hood, lighting, PH's, pump, air pum, heater and skimmer. $ 300 in sand, cc, testing kits and br $200-300 in LR that I'm planning on purchasing this weekend. Still need to purchase a ro system, refractometer, heater, pump, rubbermaid to help with PWC's. With any of...

Well I added a raw shrimp to the tank last night to begin the cycle. On Saturday I am going to 50-60 lbs of LR. My LFS sells both cured and uncured for 5.99 per lb. I was orgininally planning to buy uncured, but the LFS is telling me to go with all cured LR. What do you all think?

Just for the fun of it I ran the following test tonight: Calcium 340ppm KH 125.3ppm Phosphate 0.0ppm Nitrate 0ppm Nitrite 0.1 mg/l Hydrometer shows 1.022 Water Temp is 78 Tomorrow night I will add two raw shrimp and watch the fun begin. I'll also try to find a LFS...

Thanks Roka64! You said that I "can also ditch the bioballs and replace them with LR rubble. Bioballs tend to becom nitrAte factories. You also might want to invest in a QT and another ph." Should I ditch the bioballs now and switch to LR Rubble or wait until the tail is cycled? Also, I'm a...

Hi, I just wanted to introduce myself as this my first post at this site and I have just started my first SW tank. Here is a breakdown of what I have and what I have done to date: Tank: Tenecor 50g flat back hex Filtration: Tenecor's Simplicity Plus (see attached dia.) Protein Skimmer...