The tank has been up and running for about 7 months now. Will try and not make this too long. Please bear with me. From the beginning, I used tap water mixed with premium reef salt by Deer. I added 8 damsels (4 dominos and 4 blue) and 150 lbs of base rock. I let that set for 8 weeks and took the water to my lfs to test (after I did first with results all paremeters reading perfect) just to be sure I was right..which I was.
I then removed the dominos and three blue and traded for 6 blue legged, 6 emerald, and 6 red crabs, along with 1 bi-color blenny, and 4 false percula clowns. Left that alone for about a month, then purchased a yellow tang (which died a week later that had something in it..I posted messages about that in here as well). About 5 weeks ago, I purchased a few pieces of Fiji live rock. Everything has been running fine. I have a wet/dry sump, 2 power heads inside the tank. I have not done a water change since adding the lr due to being scared of killing what may be in there. I have found some pod creatures in there. I again added a few more pieces of lr 2 weeks ago along with the sailfin tang and a royal gamma or beauty (the purple and orange fish). I have cc on the bottom but want to switch to dsb soon. My salinity tester is the swing arm type. Oh and I also have started using the Reef Cyrstal salt two weeks ago. I use it when adding water (RO from my lfs) to my tank once a week. I also have 2 feather dusters and a baby box fish, and 2 orange star fish. I add 3-4 capfuls of Reef Complete to the water (overflow) once a week. I just tested the water again, and all are reading fine.