New 29 Gallon Set Up

Finally got everything from UPS today and yesterday. Rocks from Reef Cleaners made it this morning!!!! The aragonite and rocks are set in the tank along with other pieces of equipment. Off to get the RODI water and time to get this thing wet!!!! Two months of research and talking to fellow reefers has finally paid off!!!! Pics to follow later...

If anyone has a chunk of established live rock I could get locally to help seed the tank that would be great.

Glad to hear your getting it wet, I'll let you know how the weekend goes for getting you LR, may being babysitting my sisters kids this weekend, but may have a chance to remove some for you.

Sounds good unconv - I could swap you with a chunk I just got from Reef Cleaners and didn't use. Nice piece about 6-8" diameter.

Oh Boy...new set up...so much fun...
pictures, pictures....pictures...

I've got some LR for you

Came home from work this morning to find I had an green algea bloom yesterday on the rocks and glass. Also have a bunch of little white organisms on the glass, heater, suction tube for skimmer. Basically look like little white wiskers. They come right off the glass with the magnetic algea scraper or using a turkey baster to blow them off. Any idea what these are and should I be worried???? Checked a couple parameteres - Ammonia 0, Nitrate 5, Salinity 1.024, Temp 78.

Thanks

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Doesnt look like anything to be concerned about. Looks and sounds like the normal progression of the tank cycling and maturing. Just keep cleaning the glass off and blowing the rocks off with the powerhead or a turkey baster and let it continue cycling. Take the powerheads out periocically and clean them off. You will need to clean your skimmer more often. Do you have a sump/refugium? If you do, get yourself some macro algae. It will eat up the nutrients and help keep the algae down in the tank. I have a bunch if you need some. Do you have a cleaning crew? Snails and crabs?

I agree, normal cycling, you're well on your way.

I know the schedule you keep, so I would run your skimmer on the wet side when your off, and on the dryer side when you are on the job.

Make sure to be cleaning the filter regularly.

Will do.... Thanks for the replies... Put 10 snails in there yesterday to help with the algae.

One more suggestion! You might want to raise your salinity just a bit. Most everyone I know, including myself will say keep your salinity at 1.026.
1.024 is not too low, but you dont want it getting any lower.

OK. Doing to do a small water change tomorrow so I will work towards getting up towards 1.026.

Getting it to 26 is a good idea once you have corals at this point 24 isn't. Going to hurt especially since you're cycling I only recently changed to 26 to 27. Just work on other parameter. If you end up dosing ca alk mag your salinity will rise. I would continue on the path you're on until your sure on what your keeping. Sent from my phone hope I made sense

Sounds good.....

Day six and the algea bloom is finally over!!!!! Amazing how fast it clears up - started looking better yesterday and this morning it was all gone. No more cleaning the glass several times a day.....

dawgwe1 wrote:Day six and the algea bloom is finally over!!!!! Amazing how fast it clears up - started looking better yesterday and this morning it was all gone. No more cleaning the glass several times a day.....

That's good news! Make sure there's still plenty left for the snails though

Oh, dont worry about the snails, theres plenty left on the rocks and theres more to come! Just a warning, its not totally over! You will have your boughts with hair algae and cyano and other algaes, but we all did and still do sometimes. Dont get discouraged. Its all fixable. The system will take care of itself eventually.

Couple pics from my cell phone.... Tank cleaned up real nice once the algea bloom ended. Going to add a fish or two this weekend. Tanks is four weeks old today and has ten snails in it along with a couple pieces of coral I got from Un-Conv when he set me up with some established live rock.....

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Looks like things are going well and glad to see you're taking it slow and steady, Best way for success.

Looks good

Picked up an inexpensive black blenny last weekend for the first fish in the tank. Got a package of marine algea at LFS and he loves it.... Use a rubber band and use it to hold a small piece to a piece of rock.

Good for you, he'll help to keep things clean, I have one, you'll find he changes color like a chameleon great fish

Yea....thats cool...Now you have to share more pictures.

Picked up a small pulsating silver xenia today for a new addition to the tank..... All is going good Tried to get a good pic of the blenny but since he is black the pics are not coming out..... Added a couple of pieces of rock I didn't put in when first set up... Kind of white when they are new.......

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Nice. The xenia will add some nice color and movement to the tank. I like this stuff.

just got done putting baffles in a 10 gallon tank I am going to use for sump. Let set up for 24 hours and fill with water to make sure it doesn't leak...... should have installed Sunday or Monday. I have a small pump I will use for now until I can get a little larger one. Can't wait to get the equipment and all of the bubbles out of my tank Picking up a six line wrasse on Sunday and maybe a black and white clown...... I think the blenny could use a little company. Been by himself for a month

Let me know if and how I can help

great job

Picked up a black and white clown fish today. The blenny is glad to see another fish in the tank with him. Keeps trying to go by him.... Setting the sump up tomorrow...

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Added a six line wrasse on Monday - very colorful and a lot of spunk.... Finally got the sump installed about a 1/2 hour ago. I had it installed Saturday but cound not get the overflow box to work correctly so I took it off and set in the garage with a couple of buckets. Had to use a different "J" tube - ended up using two pieces of tubing cut from my syphon tube and using those to syphon water for the eshopps overflow box. Works great - turned power off overnight and started right up when I turned the power on the next morning. Glad to get rid of all of the bubbles - looks great!!!! Time for