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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 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...

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...