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roger that... I'm gonna put in a clean up crew tonight

I'll have to remember that trick when I setup my 120

I'll look up how to dose amonia as well. I figure I'll add two hermit crabs and a snail. The crabs at the LFS are about half the size of a dime for $1.79 or something and the snails are the same size at $1.99. There is two very very small feather dusters living on the live rock as well as...

ah ok, I'll check the hardware store. But at this point I think I'll start with a small clean up crew and a little food. I think I'll put them in tonight and see what happens

$4 - 6 bucks would be chaep to me. Or a snail and a hermit crab. There seems to be plenty of dead crap on some of the rocks. They would clean that up right? How do I dose it out that small... The only amonia I know like that is in the supermarket for cleaning.

ok, I started a 20L 8 days ago. I used 20 lbs. of arag-alive sand from caribsea 10 lbs of LR from the LFS and 10 lbs of LR from another NJRC member's sump. During the last 8 days I definitely had nice levels of Amonia, Nitrates, and Nitrites. As of yesterday, those level are all 0 My guess is...

Yeah, this is basically what I'm doing

I Installed it last night but the pump for it was way to strong. It's a Nano reef systems nrs 2.5-8 I adjusted the water column as low as I could get it with the skimmer still stable and the collection cup filled up with water in like 15 minutes. For now I slid the skimmer lower into the sump...

That's what I thought as well... I may set it up just to get it running and then shut it off until the cycle is finished and the CUC goes in

I did use arag-alive sand from carib sea and it came with an extra packet of live bacteria or something. Plus I go some really live rock from member malulu. There were a couple of sponges on the rocks so I'm sure thise are dying because of the cycle and lack of food. That should give the...

thanks... I'll setup the skimmer tonight and see what happens

yeah, I think I'll set it up tonight. Why not

I just setup a 20L nano with a sump. I have an eshopps pf-nano overflow draining into the first part of the sump were the skimmer will go. My heaters are also in that compartment too. I haven't setup the skimmer yet. Right now there's a ton of bubbles flowing into that compartment. 1. Do I...

I have a 20L thats about 5 days into it's cycle. Total water volume is about 25 Gallons with the sump. There's about 25 lbs. of LR and 20 lbs of LS. I checked the levels and while I don't remember the numbers. There was Amonia, Nitrates, and Nitrites present. The PH was a little above 8.4 I'm...

show made me want a mantis shrimp tank

Here's a pic of the sponge that I got from malulu

malulu hooked me up with some nice rock tonight. There was a few interesting sponge like creature attached to them. I'm well on my thanks to him. His tank is awesome by the way. I'll try and post a pic of what was attached to one of the rocks to see what you think it might be.

All went well... Followed my original plan and added RO water to fill the entire system and turned on the heater and pumps. No leaks. I let the water heat up for a few hours and then added the salt. I let that cycle for 24 Hrs. then adjusted the salinity or 1.025 by removing tank water and...

Thanks, I'm sure I'll need some help

thanks... we'll see what happens tomorrow