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05-10-2013, 05:07 PM
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thanks for the tip i now have clamps, tonight i hang the lights! i've got bio pellets now, just need to pumb in the reactor. hopefully i've have update pics this weekend. 
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05-11-2013, 05:02 PM
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success! i managed to get the lights up last night, i'm rather proud of this considering i'm 5' tall and only have a 4' stepladder with 10' ceilings
i know it's uneven, my hubby fixed that this morning.  today I play with rocks 
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05-15-2013, 03:13 AM
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ok so i said i would get this done on the weekend. i procrastinated a bit.
2 hours of standing on my step ladder bending over my tank and i have rocks in a new pile!  it's not awe inspiring but it looks rather neat in person. i'm not sure why my Iphone insists on making my tank look blue but it's not. I couldn't resist building a bridge on the right side of the tank. my inspiration was the collapsing inside wall of a reef... not sure i got it right but it looks OK and gives me more room to mount corals then my old layout did. i just need to find some baseball sized pieces to put my zoas on and i'll scatter those around the sand bed. now on to water chemistry. so um being new to the hobby i didn't quite grasp how important water chemistry was. I've had fresh water tanks for years and you can let those suckers go for a long time before you're in trouble. not so for saltwater i find out. i'm currently in the pain staking process of bringing my nitrates in line so i can move all my Euphilia back in the tank and bring home my new elegance coral. i have a very kind friend who's been baby sitting it for me tell my water's in line. besides Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, Phosphate and KH what else should I be testing for? time to sit down and spend some QT with my coral books. must keep reminding myself that i have 3 months to tinker with this tank before i'm putting the fish back in.
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05-15-2013, 02:16 PM
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Lookin' good! When the tank is first set up and you're getting things running, the cycle is the first hurdle you'll have to wait through. During that time you want to be testing for Ammonia, Nitrite, then Nitrate in that order of time progression. Phosphate, IMHO, is a bit of a symptomatic thing. If you're concerned if your rock is leaching it, or there's an accumulation from feeding foods with phosphate in it, you can confirm your suspicion with a phosphate test. But more times than not, you'll test but read 0 because the algae growing in your tank will have used up any free phosphate. So while it'll be a problem, your tests may not read any.
The next big 3 are Magnesium, KH and Calcium. You probably don't need to worry about these until you start putting coral in. The fish don't really care. Of those 3, you have to be concerned with your Magnesium 1st. It's level determines your tank waters ability to hold your Calcium and Kh stable and at the proper levels. There's some great reading material here: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=21968 http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-06/rhf/index.php And as always, if you need clarification, just ask. Lots of science nerds here  There's never a dumb question.
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