Tyler's 75g Journey

Very nice! I do see growth indeed
You are really going to love those Red Sea test kits! I have them and they are great! I find it fun to test with them
JJL

 

The Red Sea kits are very nice! I test once every 3-4 days as you can see with my progress.

Thanks for the comments! I'm hoping to see some growth on the dry rock within a month or so.

Any thoughts on the numbers I'm getting for my tests?

 

Well I've been slacking with updates but photobucket wasn't cooperating with me.

I see some great growth on the dry rock which is hard to see in the pictures. I am getting a whole bunch of little clear bugs (not sure how else to describe them) they are crawling everywhere and not sure what these are.

Test:

April 11, 2011 - Day 19

pH 8.4
Nitrite 0.05
Nitrate 5
Ammonia 0


I put two more raw shrimp in to make sure there was an ammonia spike.

Pictures:

 

Looks good so far. I would wait until those nitrites come all the way down though before adding anything.

 

Wow haven't been here forever! Time for an update:

I just picked up 5 Turbos and 5 Ceriths tonight. Going to get some Nassarius and Astreas on Thursday. Now I'm looking for some advice for fish and other inverts.

I am going to be having soft corals in the tank so I'm going to need reef safe fish and inverts.

Fish:

Wrassle
Clown
Yellow Tang
Red hawk?

I want unique fish.

Inverts:

Shrimp?
Sea cucumber?

Not really sure what other inverts I could get. I don't want any crabs.

Any advice?

Also does anyone have a website to check my intended fish purchases? Want to make sure everyone will get along and what to feed the fish. Thanks

 

Pictures from tonight:









Turbos:



Testing for the night:

May 23, 2011 - Day 61

pH 8.4
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Ammonia 0

 

Aquarium Fish: Tropical Freshwater Fish and Saltwater Fish for Home Aquariums has a good fish compatibility chart

 

So a lot has happened recently.

Any advice on the lighting or is it good? ATI Lights (1 atcnics, blue plus, blue plus, aquablue plus, purple plus, blue plus)

Below is my recent activity:

June 15th - Day 84
Added Corals:
Open Brain
Dragon Eye Zoa
Eagle Eye Zoa
Eagle Eye Yellow Skirt Morph
Rainbow Yuma - feed shrimp once a week
Blue Encrusting Montipora
Various Favias
Green Star Polyps

Added sand sifting star fish

June 19, 2011 - Day 88
Added Coral:
Candy cane coral
Added first fish
Yellowhead Watchman Goby

June 20, 2011 - Day 89

pH 8.4
Nitrite 0.05
Nitrate 0
Ammonia 0

Added corals:
Torch coral
Green paly frag (green monsters / caribbean green


Pictures:

 

The tank looks great, nice arches. Those turbos are huge. Pretty blue montipora.

 

^ Thanks and thank you for the advice