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Hey Snake heres pictures from my tank, After reading your guildlines (which were super helpful) and starting in on a few books, I have a better understanding on what I was doing wrong. I'm still a little confused though, I'm pretty sure my tank hasn't cycled completely, but as you can see I have...

Alright I'll start from there, thanks again for the help, any suggestions on the books? I somewhat figured, it was a combination of me jumping the gun and being taken advantage of by a store owner, I've followed his directions and all it's landed me was flushing money down the Toliet. I've been...

I used r/o water mixed with the 5gallon plastic containers of sea water when I first set it up but have used tap when I did a water change, how do I dechlorinate the water before hand? Or should I just use r/o water constantly? What do I do about the water in the tank now to dechlorinate it?

The ammonia has been fine throughout all of the tests, I didn't ghost feed, could that be my promblem? Not enough bacteria yet? I do have brown algae growing on the glass and the guy I got the rock from had a reef, there's still some small coral growing, a few very small mushrooms, I thought...

Thanks any help will be awesome, If I can't get this right soon I'll be getting outta the hobby, I bought the live rock from a guy off of craigslist, he told me to put it in my tank and let the sump run for a month and everything would be fine, was this the correct way to cycle? I have a Instant...

Just set up my first saltwater tank. Tank size is 125gl, I have about 250lbs of live rock inside of it besides the sand, I have a ProClear 40gl sump thats rated for 170gl tank. It has a protein skimmer built in and I'm running a 9w UV sterilizer with it. I'm running twin 36" Odyssea dual bulb...