Recent content by Macchamps75

Hello all, I am kind of new to the forum. I have cycled my tank and taking my time in selection of fish. Me levels are where they should be (thanks to you guys helping me) I have visited the LFS to look but want to get the advise from you guys before i buy. I just want to make sure they are not...

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I added two crabs. They have been eating it. They are small and have a lot of tank to clear. I checked my levels last week and had Nitrate 2.5 Nitrite 0 Ammonia is at 1 Ph is at 7.9 This week is Nitrate 2.5 Nitrite 0 Ammonia is .5 Ph is 8.1 Salinity is still at 40 or 1.03 I have only had...

Also I added a saltwater Molly to get the cycle started. It seems to be fine. Been about 4 days. I did notice that I had some red spiderweb looking stuff on one of my live rocks. The other live rocks have little hairs on them and look like they are sprouting little sprouts. They are about the...

Thanks for all the help. I am waiting on about 20 more pounds of live Rock to come in. I will move the one Rock so it is more sturdy. All the other rocks are on the bottom of the tank and have sand around them. I have seen people post that the fish will dig and make them fall if not. Would...

Here is my setup right now. Anything you guys see that I should change? I am all ears.

I will do some reading on the macro. Thanks for the help. What are the mollies for. I have heard of people putting one fish in to die to cycle the system at fist. Is that what you mean? Will the fw mollies adjust to saltwater?

I am real new to this, so want to do a lot more reading before I decide on fish. If I had my way it would be a few small black seahorse, a few clowns, a star fish. Like I said before I am new to this and want to do it right. I have to do a lot of reading to see what fish I can put together.

i have been reading for a while now. I just started with a 55 tank. I have a fluval 406 can filter set up. I got 60 pounds of live sand from a LFS. I have some rock that was live in another tank (coral rock)but has been out of water for about 6 months. I am going to use it as base rock then add...