Nebie

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Trevor Robertson

I looking forward to getting something that will move in my tank. The rock that I got was from AI. They are my choice for live stock, I work in retail so I am not a big fan of ordering over the net, I support the local vendors so that they will support me even if it does mean a few extra $$. It was the Tonga branch I really like the look that it gives the tank, lots of places to hide. I am going to take some pictures and see how they turn out.

Tested the water in our 2.5 nano today. Ammonia is almost 0 ppm, but nitrite is spiking at over 5 ppm. So the Tonga branch in our house is curing quite quickly. I'm hoping to get something live in it soon too :-)

Brought home 14 lbs of the Indonesian rock, a cleaner shrimp and a dozen astreas from SWF this evening. AI is also having a sale over the weekend only. Buy 2 corals and get 20%, buy two fish get 10% off. So I bought two fish and two corals :-D Then I couldn't resist the decorator crab, a bunch of halimeda and that's all for now. I do think this is the weekend that we do a little more shopping to get live things in our 42 hex.

Originally Posted by Trevor Robertson

PS when is the best time to add your clean up crew, and what do you all use for testing water?

Add them when ammonia and nitrite levels are at 0 ppm. That means your rock is cured.

I don't know if you're doing water changes in your curing tank. I'm not. I"ll probably do one big w/c , like 50% or more, once ammonia and nitrite are at 0 ppm. Since I don't have a nitrate test, I'm going to assume that nitrate will be pretty high, even with the rock, sandbed and halimeda consuming some of it. A big water change will certainly reduce whatever is in there and freshen the place up after all that crap was digested by bacteria. Besides, a 50% water change in a 2.5 gal isn't going to be anything serious ;-)

Take care.