7 week old 220 gallon

Hello, I feel like I'm rushing my tank but I do monitor the tank daily and all is great. If anyone has input on my decisions I would appreciate it!
I'm in week 7 and the tank is a 200g custom 7ft long by 24'' high. six 48inch T5s 4marine glow blue and 2whites. MTC skimmer Mac drive motor. two 1250gph power heads, 2 heaters. 60LBS of live rock and counting.

Started with three ocellaris clowns.
Since added 6 red claw hermits, five blue hermits, 3 zebra, 2 emerald crabs, 1 porcelain crab. 3 turbo snails. Two polyps one orange and one green. two mushrooms.
Tonight I added three more Ocellaris clown that were bigger, so I added two green bubble tip anemones to smooth the territories. All six seem to be schooling? Salinity 1.024, Ca 460 , 78 degrees , Ph 8.4 10g water changes twice a week.
Thanks! Hoping for the best.

 

Congrats all the same : )

 

Thats funny, Just taking care of a bit of algae on the glass pics tomorrow. If I can figure out how?

 

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How are all of your clowns doing together? I have a 75g with black clown pair and I am think about picking up a snow flake pair but I really don't want to risk it. :/

 

Well, I thought I knew enough when I purchased 3 clowns to cycle the tank . Found out after pairs are best, or schools. My one clown is a bit smaller and gets his butt kicked daily. Today we picked up 3 more larger clowns, hoping for 3 pairs in the end. To help we picked up two bubble tip anemones to try and mix up the territories that were already established. The anemones backed into a space between LR and aren't helping at all.

Basically at this point the five now kick the ones butt and he does his own thing at the other end of the tank. For now the five are competing for pairs from what I can see. As long as you have enough space from what I have read the pairs will find their own territories and leave each other alone!

 

Is this tank cycled yet?

 

My problem is that the levels only slightly rise and then are gone again. I have read that in a 200g you don't really see the spikes before they are gone? 3 clowns, lots of crabs and 60Lbs of live rock for 6weeks and all levels are at 0 so my thoughts are yes??? Any input?
I was over feeding and a bit long on the light each day. As a result ended up with some algae. Brown algae came and went also. I even bought a different test kit when I didn't get the toxic levels I hear about when cycling

 

In 6 weeks, your cycle could be over. That's fine. I just saw this and got the idea that you were cycling the tank with clowns in it? Maybe you weren't, I don't know.

Though my main concern is that you see to be adding stuff fast. 3 clowns at a time is fine for your tank, and I think it will handle the bio-load as long as you don't get fish all the time.

The anemone is actually what caught my attention. Most people suggest a mature tank (6 or more months old) for an anemone. Care isn't all that difficult, but stable parameters are important.