About to go "live".

[JBen]

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