What to do - thoughts appreciated

[gregzz4]

Thanks everyone for the great input
Just to clarify - although I'm new to SW, I have decades of FW knowledge and have been voraciously reading about SW since last fall.
I do understand the chemistry and bacterial functions. I've posted this as I know I need to grow my bacterial colonies and want something to feed

I do have my QT running and I've already stated I will definately use it

I see the point of not trying lps yet and will look at maybe some 'shrooms, but I'm not going after any zoas right now as I'm not sure I want any

We haven't made it to the LFS yet but if we grab any fish it will only be 1 ( or 2 at most )

All that's growing right now is turf and HA, so it looks like the cycle is further along and I guarantee you it's stalled. This is why I want to get something to feed into it. I'll ponder ghost feeding while the new purchases are in QT, and will be hooking up the GFO reactor today to see how the algae reacts

There are some feather dusters and sponge that made it through cooking so I didn't kill everything

As for what I've already done;
I have 2 Astreas and 1 Red Scalet Hermit
All are milling about on the largest pile of LR. I guess they'll be my canary for now

And don't worry, I am taking this slow, but I have to add something after a QT, right ?

[gregzz4]

Also, I'll get some more LR for the sump but I'll cure it for at least up to a week to see what kind of shape it's in and what's hiding in it

[gregzz4]

For those not following my build thread ...
I bought another 57lbs of LR yesterday from TaioneReefer. It appears to be cured. I'll watch it this week to see where the NO3 and PO4 are at
The plan is to stuff as much of it into the sump as possible and maybe put a couple in the DT

Finally getting some diatoms now so looks like the cycle hasn't stalled after all. Don't know if adding the astreas kick started it, but they sure have pooped a lot already. Time to crank up the vortechs a bit