summitxho
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I am happy to announce that my tank is up and running. I rinsed my sand, put it in the bottom, mixed my saltwater in buckets, added it, let it cylce for a week while I waited for my live rock. I added my live rock December 4th, and it has been cycling ever since. The rock was very very cured, and there was not much die off because it was only out of the water for maybe 15 min, I have been testing water quality every second day (ammonia, nitrates, nitrite, PH, salinity) and saw a slight rise in ammonia on day 1-2. Ever since then I have been reading 0's across the board with 8.0 PH and 1.023 salinity, sometimes with a slight nitrite reading, everything on the rock seems to be doing very well, tons of snails, feather dusters, crabs, even what looks to be an anemone. My live rock was so full of life, I didnt want to kill it all putting a shrimp in and having a harsh cycle, so I let my live rock cycle the tank. So I believe I am ready for some inverts, would anyone argue that? Also I know its hard without a picture, but what I think is an anemone is about the size of the tip of a pencil eraser, with 2 short antenna sticking out (sort of looks like 2 little tiny pink fan worms), its bright pink, and deflates when I move quickly, anyone have any idea what type? or if its one? For inverts I planned on getting 3 blue legged hermit, 1 red scarlet hermit, 2 margarita snails, 2 astrea snails, and 2 nassarius snails (sorry for spelling) good start? I have a 10 gallon tank, 12 lbs live rock, penguin 150 filter, carib-sea fine white sand, and im using Kent sea salt