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[Beverly]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Wow I can't believe you just put 6 fish and corals into a newly setup tank in less than a week and are now giving advice to a newbie. How totally irresponsible.

Christy

I guess if this was my first reef, I would totally agree with you. But it's not. We've had three years of reefkeeping experience with everything from a 5 gal to a 180. We just happened to have been in the process of moving for the past year or so and had to get out of the hobby during that time. I know I don't have all the answers, but I've got a few of them and what I have I share.

If I thought that we'd be harming our new fish or corals in any way, I would not have gone ahead with what we did. Based on my experience, and the fact that the rock was cured with test kits confirming it, I have every confidence that our hex will do just fine.

Heck, I read how people do water changes only every month and clean their filtration systems, if they have them in their setups, every few months and they're giving advice or comments. I do daily and weekly maintenance on all our current reefs, and did so with our past setups too.

I wouldn't necessarily advise anyone else to do what we did because I don't know the specifics of their systems or their maintenance regime. But I know what's going on in our reefs because I'm a little on the anal side and I pay very close attention to them.

For example, we have a two week old 2.5 nano with curing rock, a small chunk of halimeda, and a 2 1/2" sandbed in it. Ammonia levels are now at 0 ppm, but nitrite levels are still over 5 ppm. Not until nitrite is at 0 ppm and I've done a 50% or greater water change will corals or one tiny fish only go into that little tank. And I'm dying to see more than just rock in there!

With that said, I hope you have a better understanding of where I'm coming from and that you have a nice evening :-)