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Obviously, I've lost all ability to spell. That was supposed to be "un-initiated" in the last post! :D

Wow, Mike, it sounds like your tank is really coming along! Mine is still cycling -- nitrates down to 10, so I hope to get started on adding a cleanup crew soon. My husband keeps kidding me about my new hobby of "watching rocks," and I guess it does sound weird to the unitiated. It's amazing how...

Originally posted by skysmom If you happen to find out what that is, let me know, because all of a sudden I have that growing in several places on my LR. :thinking: I still don't know what it is, but I did see something that appears to be the same thing on another Web site with a note that...

Originally posted by aitf311 it "bumps" the topic to the top of the list so more people will see it its kind of like cheating! KEWL! Thanks, Ait! :cheer:

Originally posted by mike6969n bump I keep seeing this in the forums. What does it mean? I looked around for a definition, but didn't have much luck finding anything. :thinking:

I'm a volunteer diver at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA, and we feed our vegetarians pieces of nori (the same seaweed sheets used in sushi), as well as romaine and even occasional broccoli!

Wow, everyone is making such GREAT progress! Sorry, Woody -- I'm too much of a newbie to be any help on the blenny thing. I think my polyp is a brown button polyp. Dunno if I want it or not, but it's there... All levels are where they should be except for those stubborn nitrates, which keep...

Originally posted by woodymdt Well things are going quite well. I've gotten a little bit more of that cyano growing on a rock, I think I'm going to move a PH and see if that will help...if not, I have a 125gph PH I'm going to put in the tank for some added flow. Other than that, everyone seems...

Originally posted by woodymdt hmm, is that thread going into a rock anywhere? Sort of. That's where the rock touches the glass, and the thread becomes VERY fine about a half inch from the rock, so I can't tell if there's actually contact or not. It's also extremely friable. When I tried to...

Also just discovered this thread on the glass. It's greenish and looks like it may be flora rather than fauna.

Those pix are very cool, Woody! Thanks especially for letting us see the famous mushrooms. It looks like that second one opened up just fine. I found a feather duster (#1 on the picture below near my still-unidentified polyp (#2). The white fuzzies on the back of the rock don't appear or behave...

Originally posted by woodymdt Not sure on this one...but it's cool. the white flowery thing...might be a feather duster...we have LOADS of them on our LR. Oh, that would be very cool! Thanks, Woody! I am amazed at how fast things change in these tiny systems!

My pH has been pretty much constant at 8.2 also Gone -- perhaps because I started with water from my lfs. Of course, the tank is only a week old, so who knows what may happen. Meanwhile the brown algae or diatoms or whatever are running AMOK! Originally posted by woodymdt We're about two weeks...

And does anyone know what this critter might be? I just noticed both it and the white fluffy thing tonight for the first time. :notsure:

Two unidentified critters. Is this one, perhaps, a juvenile aiptasia?

As promised, here's the update. Today marks the end of Week One, and things are moving along, apparently as they should. Here's a picture of the overall look of the tank. I'll follow up with two more pix of unidentified critters.

KEWL! Do let us know when you get your clown fish!:happyfish Today marks the one week mark of my tank. I'll upload a picture this afternoon, after my bazillion meetings at work...

Thanks, Woody. I moved the PH as high as it would go (which was only about a half inch from where I had it) and removed the outlet adapter. That improved the surface movement a bit. I'll watch to see if that works better over the long haul. The little arthropods (or whatever they are) are having...

Originally posted by gfk yes RO/DI water is ideal. its what comes in those water machines outside of walmart and safeway etc. it is reverse osmosis/ di ionized water that you want Thanks! That makes me feel better. I was afraid it had to be reverse osmosis AND de-ionized water, not...

Quick update on my four-day-old set-up: So far, no significant changes in pH, NO2, NO3, Ammonia or salinity. I'm adding fresh water every day to compensate for evaporation. Question #1: Is any reverse-osmosis or distilled water OK? The stuff I bought indicates it's purified by RO and/or...