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Here's the goby. Both are settling in and are eating, but he seems very shy. The specific gravity is only about 1.022. I'm looking to bring the salinity up to a good level for invertebrates. Could I safely go to 1.025 with a single water change?

My specific gravity is only about 1.022. Over the next couple water changes, I'm going to try to bring it up a bit.

Here's the latest update. My tank seems to have cycled quickly. Ammonia and nitrite levels have been at zero for several days. Nitrates were high (>60 ppm) but dropped below 15 ppm with the first water change. I decided to add some livestock, and bought a small a yellow watchman goby and...

After doing some research it looks like the A104AC LED fixture by Acan would meet my needs pretty well. I am going to take another look at the store tomorrow, and will probably have them order one for me. http://www.acanlighting.com/

I was thinking mostly soft corals. Are there any LED fixtures that would work and are recommended? My local reef shop had some very high intensity LEDs over their big coral tank. Really appreciate all the feedback. Just figured out the shop had ACAN LED fixtures.

This is the shape (bit cloudy because sand an rock had just been added).

I hadn't really been considering halides because I wants to keep the carbon footprint of the tank as small as possible. It's actually a rectangular column so the fixtures don't look too out of place.

Here is a pic of the live rock setup.

Hi everyone. I am setting up a new aquarium that I intend to turn into a reef tank. I wanted to describe the setup a little bit and get some ideas/feedback. The tank is a 40 gallon column (about 18" by 20", 27" tall). I have read that doing reef stuff in a vertically-oriented tank can be...