Theres already some weird greeny lookin gunk in my collection cup! Haha not a lot but theres some :) happy its working

25 gallon saltwater begining stage: http://youtu.be/COucuohLBCg

If anyones interested, a short video of my tank and skimmer. Would like feed back on video quality! Never used youtube before and my.videos end up lookin real crappy on fb

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Im obsessed with it. Overly obsessed haha and there isnt even live stock in it yet! been testing every 12 hours, ammonia is reading 0.50-0.75ppm nitrite 0 and nitrate 0. I hate cycle waiting games!!

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Day 4 of cycle, ammonia 0.75 nitrite 0.25 nitrate 0

Upgrade!
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Decided to bomb that aquasun and picked up the 20.5" 120w 16000k maxspect razor today in edmonton!

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You my friend are well on your way to the empty wallet Club....Welcome aboard to the empty wallet train.... :twised::mrgreen::lol:

Haha also looked at tanks to upgrade to today while in edmonton. Found an awesome 6 foot 125gallon for an even more awesome price haha

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Lol, gotta go bigger than 125, you need more room front to back for awesome aquascaping :twised:

I definitely know that feeling my 95 gallon some days feels so small

Considering i have a 240gal fw tank in my living room. My 25 gal sw is disapointing haha

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Re arranged my rock, more sturdy now and i gives more "swim room" for fish. And holy **** i love this new light! Gotter all programmed to how i want and everything. Its real nice not ever haveing to manually turn it on or off lol

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Automatic timers for SW is almost a mandatory thing

Looking good looking forward to seeing some fish and coral in there

Soon! My cycle is finished now, zero amo zero trite and did a real big water change today and will test trate tommorrow again. Ordering a clown on tuesday

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nothing like seeing a thought-out plan come together. Looking great! Will look even greater with some life in there :-)

http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14...efa0fd9319.jpg first addition to my tank :D kenya tree and a small small peice of gsp

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Gsp opened up quite a bit over night

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Looks like you have a Kenya tree in there too.... In case you weren't made aware while both of those look pretty and have good wave movement they have a tendency to over take your tank and they are very hardy too both can take a ton of punishment without major issues

Kenya tree yup :) and yeah i read up on how they can multiply quick amd takr over haha i was told i can just pluck out the un wanted straglers when that starts to happen

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Bit better pic

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The problem with that unfortunately is if anything breaks off there is a good chance it will re grow off the broken piece only sure fire way to stop it from re growing is to epoxy or kalk paste where you removed it from

Well hopefully by that point this 25 gallon is just gunna be a random coral/frag tank haha when i upgrade to bigger tank im not gunna have anything that can be classed as "pest"

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So tommorrow my order arives at the airport from.j&l.. Ill be getting my clean up crew package in, 1 percula clown 1 bangaii cardinal, a med/lrg green pearl bubble coral and a med/large pipe organ coral. I feel like this is still to much to be adding at once to a freshly cycled tank. But. To avoid paying stupid amounts of money to just order like 1 fish is un realistic as we dont have any supply for sw here at all. Should i be worried? Plan on testing like crazy amd have water prepared for water changes incase of spikes

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I wouldn't be too worried. The coral and CUC don't add much to the bioload and the fish will probably be on the small side so I doubt you'll see much if any ammonia spike if your tank has fully cycled. Just don't over feed and do a weekly water change.

ahh, signs of life !

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More signs!! Order got here early :)

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25 gallon reef: http://youtu.be/MiW4Vs9utHA

Littlw video of my tank now with new additions :)

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Very nice looks like your well on your way


Watch your clown it will look for something to host it can be entertaining to see

He actually looked like he was eyein up my bubble coral today lol kept going back to it and swimmim around it then cruisin off to play in the flow from my powerheads haha

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Im haveing a nitrite issue tho. I dont understand. My cycle finished and ammo and nitrite wer zerod amd about 20ppm nitrate. So i did a water change and brought it down to between 5-10ppm. And then next day i had a .25 trite reading. Zero ammonia still. In 24hrs that went back to zero. I did another 8-10gal water change last night and now i have between .25 and .50 nitrite again? Someone on fb told me its because when i do wc i end up stiring up crap in my live rock because the rock is dirty cuz i didnt have cuc in until today? Does that sound right?

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You have to remember you just added a bunch of stuff to your tank everything will have a tendency to spike due to stress and possible loss of some inverts personally I would give it a few days watch your fish and coral and inverts for changes and re-evaluate in a few days.


Patience is the key and waiting is the hardest thing to do.

Issue started before adding fish and stuff tho, it seems nitrite will drop to zero. But if i do a 20-25% wc the next day nitrite is back up to .25-.50

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http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14...e7a418295d.jpg it seems everythings doing good, except im starting to see brown algea. http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14...a1ed79524b.jpg
Thats appeared over night since adding the stock yesterday. Ammo 0 nitrite 0 and nitrate 5-10

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That sir appears to be a diatom bloom nothing major to be worried about in a new tank everytime you add several critters at once you will get the bloom it will cycle its way through

Is it possible to have to much clean up crew? Haha i was debateing adding more. I currently have the 50 dollar cuc package from j&l. Sorry if ur not familiar haha

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Yes it is very possible. Snails starve and pollute the tank and hermit crabs will attack snails if there is a lack of food.

Well then! Good to know haha is there a general rule of thumb for cuc? Or just whatever works type thing lol

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Short answer is no. It depends on what you keep, feed, maintenance habits,etc. there are stores that sell packages for certain sized tanks but they are usually pretty excessive. I would see if what you have now does the trick after a couple weeks. If you are getting dead snails or empty shells your crew is probably too big, if they don't seem to be able to keep up then add a few more snails or hermit crabs. Also research the snails as certain ones take care of certain areas such as some sift sand while others clean rocks. Get the type that your tank seems to be lacking in. My cleaner shrimp is really good at grabbing all the excess food that the fishes miss and I recommend one for this reason but are helpful to the fish and very entertaining as well. Serpent or brittle stars are good at getting under the rocks to clean (don't get a green brittle star as they can be predatory). I would also avoid sand sifting star fish as they need an established sand bed and usually starve in newer or small tanks.

Nothing new but tank is doing great!! Some weird things went on with the pipe organ last night but other then that im exteremly happy :)
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Brittle stars or bristle worms.. Have been told both. Im leaning towards stars but found some similiar looking b worms on google. Have never actually seen a full one come out of the coral so i cant say 100% what they are. Whatever it is. Theres probably 5-10 in there! They just poke what looks like legs out of the coral in random places. Never seen anywhere else in tank.

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