[Delphinus]

The numbers are looking goooood!

I keep my SG at 1.025. I prefer to keep things on the saltier side of the scale. It's just a subjective kind of thing ... but I feel that things do better in "slightly too salty" compared to in "slightly not salty enough." I can't really offer any concrete evidence to back up my claim ... like I said it's just a subjective kind of thing I've observed.

Hmmm. Also. Can I maybe try to steer you away from the blue mushrooms? I know they're cool at first but at the moment I just hate them. There is no other single organism that has caused so much havoc in my tank. Every single piece of rock in my 50 has a solid dozen to a few dozen of these on it.. and I started off with one. It was cool at first when they spread. But it has not been cool watching them do damage to my LPS and SPS! It's amazing -- I don't know how they do it, but anything they touch ... dies or gets badly damaged. I don't know what I'm going to do with the rock in my 50 -- none of it is going into my 75. I have a bad feeling my rocks are going to be giveaways at some point. And I won't let anyone with a serious reef take them -- they'll have to go to fish-only setups where lighting is minimal and there are no other polyps at risk. Who knows, maybe some coral-nipping fish will love them!

The rest of the plan sounds awesome. You're going to have a great setup soon, I just know it.

cheers!