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It isnt as bad as you think. Dont lose heart. You can do it and will be happy you did. I am going to let the more experieced folks walk you through it. good luck!

We have a brown/red algea problem on our sand. Our CUC takes care of all the hard surfaces and do a good job but they neglect the sand and now it ia all brown and ugly. What can we add to our crew to take care of just the sand? Our CUC now is... Lettuce nudi 2 emerald crabs Brittle star 10...

We just got that same CUC order in and we are very pleased with it. It is doing its job! There are a lot of hermits but I think they add activity to to the tank. Wish there were more of the little digger snails and fewer of the others. Our next CUC addition is going to be the cleaner shrimp...

Welcome to my world...I have had nothing but grief with MH lighting, at the moment I have one side working on my Coralife Elite unit...I am planning to go T5s by the end of this month. I LOVE the shimmer of MHs on the water, but in the end I like light I can count on. I even considered having...

DO you have a qt already set up? If so, you should keep it in there at least 2 weeks and watch it....if not....well......I don't have a qt...doesn't mean I don't recommend one I am so glad to hear that we are not the only ones that don't have a QT. I thought we were breaking some SWF.com forum...

After reading your set up thread, I don't know how any human can have that kind of patience! But you are almost there! Hang in there, you will have fish in no time!

you betcha! such a neat hobby that is a big mess!

Quote: Originally Posted by travelerjp98 I like how you changed your subtitle to "learning something new everyday!" Thanks! If you don't learn something everyday it is a wasted day, right?

We are always staring into our tank looking for something new or just watching the fish interact. The coral beauty has a cool personality, he will get right in the peppermint shrimps face and fan all his fins. Not sure what he is doing but it is cool to watch. And the Urchins and Nudi are...

Whatever it is, I got a bunch of it. It is all on one rock. It would be cool if it grew up into something nice. I am not really set up for coral so who knows what is going to happen with it. But it has been doing good so far. Maybe it will take off when we upgrade our lighting.

Quote: Originally Posted by Scott T Have you thought about using any Dry Rock, I got my 85# for about 130.00 Delivered. If you want PM me and I can tell you where I got it from and you can check it out and decide what you want to do. I did it that way because of the cost factor of Live rock and...

Its going to look very nice when you get all your rock in there, and I love that Tall Piece in the right corner of the tank, would love to have something like that in my tank.. LOL Yeah that is a cool piece. There is another piece like it at our LFS that I am going to get next time I am there...

It is red, maybe an 1/8 inch to 3/16 tall. Looks like some kind of coral? No clue...

Just wanted to let you guys see how our tank is progressing.

Put all the live rock and sand in there that you want. The more the better. All the live rock and sand has the beneficial bacteria on it and in it that your tank needs to get the cycle started and finished. You might have a little die off but you won't notice it.

that rules out the pump... the problem is just one one side right? It has to be an air leak on that side.

Quote: Originally Posted by Scott T Yes weather it is totally in the water or out like that so I could take a picture there are micro bubbles. I think that maybe I should just take them off and cap the ends.. You are sucking air somewhere, and it doesn't take much to create mircobubbles...

Probably going to catch flak for saying this, but... You can speed things up quite abit by getting a couple cups of live sand from an existing tank. Depending on your set up you can also put some dirty filter media in your filter. This will jumpstart your system and drastically shorten cycling...

Are you getting the bubbles when that return is totally submerged?