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02-04-2012, 02:08 AM
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Watch adding live rock after the tank is setup. Make sure you cook it for about a month. I learned the hard way after I bought some so call cured live rock and dropped it in my one year old set-up. It crashed my whole system. Wiped out all my fish and gave me a bad case of hair algae and glass anemones. Needless to say that was the end of that tank. I just started a new one after a year. Just because they say it is good does not mean it is. Sadly to say a lot of people just want the sale. So now I stick to the small fish stores.
 
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02-04-2012, 09:54 AM
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Thanks all.
It's basically a month old. Everything is humming along perfectly, better than expected actually (knock on wood). Bit of a silent cycle. After 10 days and not seeing so much as a blip on any chems, was beggining to wonder if I should add a shrimp to kick start AM, and then I finally saw a blip (.5) in NO3 and shortly after that a diatom bloom (now mostly gone with DR/bed more white again, than brown) some daily algae on the glass Im hoping will slow down, reduce in time. Considering adding a few more snails to the CuC, but waiting to see how things progress a little more first. Absolutely no issues (yet??) with the LR Thus far. Everything seems to going perfectly and the only thing I'm really keeping a close eye on is Phosphate and NO3 (daily test) all else every other now. The residents I have all seem perfectly happy. So for the next month or so its status quo and watching grass grow. AM=0 NO2=0 NO3= 3 to 5 ALK= 11 Calc= 480 Phos= .25 Salinity solid at 1.024 Temp fluctuates between 77 and 78.5 PH 8.0 to 8.3 J Last edited by JBen; 02-04-2012 at 10:17 AM.
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