Thanks a lot Janet!
 

I went to OA today for the first time. my main reason was to buy some liverock to stock my new aquapod with. i was in contact with wendell during the week and got out there today. Janet was there and took a lot of time and effort to talk to me about different saltwater things and helped me choose pieces of jakarta liverock. Unfortunately i set off the newbie alarm when i got in there.lol

the liverock is great! LOTS of colour and life on it. ill definitely be going back there regularly, even though it's a 1 hour drive to get there from my house.

bahaha I was there well. I was the one in line right before you and left right when she yelled newb alret. Anyways that is a awsome store very helpful!

lol :(

you witnessed it...damn...

well we all had to go through it so dont worry about it.

Welcome to the club!
make shure you are doing your water changes very friquently (with RO/DI) in the first month, start removing your PO4 from day one and run a good clean skimmer cup/neck if you want to keep all that life on the rocks.
JM2CW

well i seem to clean my skimmer cup out daily, even though there might not be a tonne of gunk in there. i clean it out anyways.lol. then scrub the heck out of it and the neck.

apart from the daily freshwater topoffs, ive probably done the equivalent of a 10-20% water change. but the tank hasnt been up for too long. the water parameters seem good now as well (90+% of the LR was fully cured). ammonia has gone away. nitrite 0, ammonia 0, and nitrate is .2 to .8...

im adding chaeto today, and possibly a small frag of something.