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looks amazing and I love the progressive photos. They show long journey that tanks take. Good job

Dunno, the only ones that I have bought were at a frag swap. Got a colony for $5 of the ones that I posted a pic of the other day. I would get zoas that you like. I haven't heard of any that wouldn't grow in any tank

:) Yeah i can't even tell where the scratch is at.

keep your lights turned off and if you have any power heads you can run them just to keep the water moving, assuming that you already put water in. Your cycle is to get the bacteria to start to colonize your live rock so not much you can do until you can get it in the tank.

Let this time help you develop your patience. This hobby needs a ton of it, especially nano tanks. I wouldn't add anything either, any shortcuts are bound to cause problems later.

depends what you want out of your sand bed. If you want it to contribute to denitrification then you will need atleast 3-4" of sand. Otherwise you can add as much or as little as you want. As for how long to wait to add anything, be sure that you have completed your cycle and no sooner...

KN...yeah i know you weren't saying that i wasn't posting. I was just ranting a bit at how sometimes the icon doesn't light up for a new post. It's annoying but I think it's more of a FireFox issue than anything else.

RO is reverse osmosis I can't really comment on the distilled water. I have never used it nor researched it to find out what is in it. The detox kits are more for heavy contaminates, like chlorine and chloramine. While your tank is cycling, you don't want to detox the ammonia, nitrites or...

i just didn't get the little flashy icon on the main page the first time that he was requesting more info. these forums do that occasionally. If i'm ever responding to your thread and suddenly quit...feel free to drop me a PM. Chances are that i just missed the icon.

no it's mature

yep...i had rock that i'm using now that was out for about 2 years.

Everything sounds good to me. I wouldn't worry about a protein skimmer. If you keep up with water changes, you will be removing and replacing enough of the water to offset the effect of a skimmer.

IMO, you have plenty light for the 2g tank. The clean-up crew is going to be a hard call on a 2g tank. I would probably go with 1 Astraea and 2 Nassarius or 1 Cerith. After that i would play it by ear to see how well they keep the tank clean. Be sure to keep up with top-off and water changes.

sorry i didn't see this post. Parameters are doing exactly what they should be doing. You will start off with an ammonia spike and it will start to decrease after a few days. Then your nitrites will spike followed by a decline. Finally your nitrates will spike and once they get to a steady...

honestly i wouldn't put an anemone in a tank under 1 year old especially if you are new to the hobby. Anemones are super sensitive to tank parameters and a young tank is too unstable to house one. Once your tank's environment settles down then it's time to get one. It usually takes at least 6...

thanks everyone

I've never gotten a good photo of this shrimp due to his transparency. My LFS told me it was a Saron Shrimp...which I know it isn't. I'm thinking it's a glass/ghost shrimp but not quite sure. What do you think?

I've been promising photos and finally here are some Zoas Xenia Crazy ClownFish through fisheye lens Greenstar Polyps Frogspawn Finger Leather SixLine Wrasse Red Mushrooms Full Tank Shot Crazy Clown hosting my lonely Ric

I posted these and more in my 29g tank thread but thought i would share these here as well. Zoas Xenia Crazy ClownFish through fisheye lens Greenstar Polyps Frogspawn Finger Leather SixLine Wrasse Red Mushrooms

You will want your ammonia and nitrites to reach zero and nitrates to be under 15-20ppm. Ideally nitrates will be zero as well but you can't always achieve that. I used to think that bristle worms were horrible to have in a tank. I heard horror stories about them and always tried to get...