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I have a 29 gallon reef that's been up for about 10 weeks. After about 4 weeks things had cycled and nitrites were down. I added two yellow tailed damsels. A few weeks later I added a bunch of hermits, snails, a brittle sea star and two serpent sea stars. About four weeks after adding the...

I believe that it's only been recently that the temp has been changing. My lights are five inches off the glass cover and very open, with ballast mounted on stand. High temps don't correlate with lights on, necessarily. I think that maybe my heater went bad for some reason. Who knows may...

I'm pretty new to this also, so take my advice with a grain of salt. You say you have a uv sterilizer, I'm not sure if this is compatable with a reef aquarium. If you're using live sand the point is to allow bacteria to grow and be helpful. I'd check into it further. My advice is be patient...

Oh yeah, ammonia-0, nitrites-0, nitrates-10-20, ph 8.1, specific gravity 1.0235.

I have a 2 month old 29 gallon tank with live 30 lbs. live rock and equal sand. It had cycled nicely with for the first month. I added two yellow tailed damsels after a month, ammonia and nitrites were already zero. After another month I added a few serpent stars, a brittle star, several...

After three weeks, my nitrites and ammonia levels are zero! Woohoo! Am excited to add some inverts for a bit but am unsure of how many I can add at one time. I plan on adding some scarlet and blueleg hermits as well as a few bumblebee snails and some turbos. they shouldn't tax the biological...

I have a week-old 29 gallon startup with thirty pounds of live rock and 35 lbs. of live sand. Ammonia spike is definately occuring, and my pH is 7.8. I have buffered the tank and done 1 30% water change. I have my skimmer going. I did get a film over all of my rocks shortly after startup and...

Thanks, That makes me feel better.

Just added 30 pounds of live rock to my new 29 gallon tank. The next day there is a transparent bulge of "stuff" over most of the rocks. It looks almost like a spider web or clearish mass of jelly. Is this part of a natural die-off when starting to cycle. I definitely got an ammonia spike...