Looking awesome! Can't wait to see more!

no that would be more than one type of backteria, one for anerobic, one for aerobic, and then the other one. could be 30 different type, or could be 3.

I get a kick out of there discription to. had to look up synergistic to see how they were using it. they must have paid some one to make that sound nice as the actual meaning is
"...contains our hypothesis of how we thing they should act blend of aerobic, anaerobic, and facultative bacteria..."

Steve

+1 on the controller and +1 on the Cycle

... it could be one kind or it could be 1 million all I was saying is they didn't need to put the "facultative" on there... a facultative bacterium can be both aerobic and anaerobic... they just switch processes when the oxygen is depleted.

Parameter update.

Ammonia is at 0 (or very close)
Nitrites are at 0 (there may be some slight color but not even a 10th the color of the lowest reading)
Nitrates are dropping... it's at less then 5 now... I would say 2 or 2.5
PH is at 8.1-8.3... hard to tell.
I will have KH and Calcium tests tomorrow.

parameters looking good, I always find PH and phosphate really hard to read so I test them just as a backup but generally not worried if my tank is thriving.

Ya I'll get a controller to read those :D

So now the results are:

Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
PH 8.1-8.3
KH 80
Calcium 360
Salinity/SG 1.0255

I will be adding one prawn every 2 days till I order my fish... 5 days before my fish are supposed to come I will add 5 prawns and take them out the night before my fish arrive.

Just curious... What is your theory on why you are seeing 0 nitrate. In your tank, what is consuming it?

its really starting to come together.. how much longer u figure before ull be able to start stocking it?