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This tank is about 3 weeks old with the sand and water. 1 week old with live sand. I just added another 5 lbs of rock and did a little rescaping... mainly providing caves for my fish and shrimp when I add them :)

currently no mechanical filtration other than DSB and LR. All the LR have been cured.

Hello guys and gals. It's been a few weeks since my tank has been up (3 weeks with the sand, a week with the LR). I seem to have quite an amount of fine, silty particles that have settled on my LR. I recently repositioned my powerheads and they became resuspended in the water column. Is it...

Cool. I just bought another 5 lbs of live rock and reaquascaped. There were things crawling in and out of the rocks at the LFS... haha i dunno if that's a bad thing. I guess we'll have to see when those lil critters grow up and start wreaking havoc.

Thanks. Last I checked, my salinity was at 7.02 ish. Last night i noticed two little green spots growing on my rocks. My friend thought it might be zooanthid polyps, though I wonder if it is possible to have growth occuring early in this stage? I'll try to get pictures tonight when I get...

Are there any coralline algae that are blue? THere's a blue dot on one of my rocks... i've never seen it before...

Yup! I think that's what it is too! If that's the case. I think I have two of them, I just noticed another one in my other rock. haha. that's pretty cool... I guess I wasn't staring at nothing after all!! I also just noticed little fragments of feather dusters. One is just barely attached to...

umm... what is this? lol... the first living creature that you can see in my tank!! WEEEEE!!! I think it only comes out at night. I've never seen it in the daytime

How do you guys keep your water oxigenated? My powerheads came with aeration tubes. Should i be using those? Or do i just want water movement without the bubbling?

Wow. that's some pretty nice aquascaping, André! Good job! I wish mine looked as good. haha. Oh well. It'll be covered up with coral in no time, so it will look nice eventually... i hope. Haha. I think i will try and get my hands on more rocks. I really wanna re-do my aquascaping. And...

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Here's a little pic of my tank. I hope it works.

haha it's cool. I stare at my tank endlessly anyway... despite the fact that it's empty haha. that's bad huh?... BTW how do you post pictures? :oops:

In the meantime, do you think it would be a good idea to start introducing snails and maybe a crab? My rocks are covered in what looks like fine fur of... i dunno what. lol. Would it help contribute to the bioload if i started adding my cleanup crew in a few days to a week?

My tank has been up for i would guess 1.5 weeks. The first week, I had the sand and water sit around and do its thang... I don't think the sand was alive anymore since I had to rinse it copiously to remove the fine dust in it, and in the interest of time and cost, i used freshwater (i just...

Woo hooo! Looks awesome! Can't wait to see more pictures as your tank matures :) how did you take such clear images? I tried taking pics of my tank but the images didn't come out so well.. also... how do we post pics?

ah. it didn't work.... hmmm

Here's some pics of my tank. I'm still building it, i'm looking to add more rocks soon. I saw this somewhere... Rome was not built in one day... neither should a reef tank. Wise words, considering what can happen in a crash, eh? Btw. the pics aren't the greatest. But i'll post nicer ones...

Thanks Ed. Is a refugium absolutely necessary? I don't think I mind having the "tumbleweed" rolling around for now. Perhaps later on, I might attempt a DIY mod of a HOB filter (that link was awesome, btw, thanks!). I'm planning ahead as to how i want to setup my biodiversity in the coming...