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My new LED retrofit came in yesterday and I got it all hooked up and working my stock hood. Here's the FTS now: You might notice a couple of new inhabitants in there. I picked up a Flame Angelfish and Blue Hippo Tang on Friday. I'm going to keep a close eye on both of those two...

I picked up some more corals from of CJ over at NCRC and at Aquatic Collection after the BAR talk Saturday. The tank is getting a fair amount of LPS now! I also did my first water change today, made sure that the params and temp was where I wanted it before hand. Thanks for all the...

Things are going well in my tank. The nitrogen cycle has already completed, somewhat surprisingly. I've been watching the levels for a week and everything has been steady. In preparation for starting to stock the tank, I went ahead and picked up a Cleaner Crew today at Neptunes. They hooked...

Erin, I'm using a combination of Bio-Activ Live Aragonite Beach Live Aquarium Sand in Black and in White.

I'm getting some really good algae growth in the past two days! Things are speeding up:

Thanks NP! When are you getting a tank?

Today I got my Aqueon ProFlex Modular sump in and installed it. The hardest part of the whole thing was getting the siphon flow from my RSM to match the return flow from the pump. Originally, I just ran the siphon directly into the sump without any valve. To be able to adjust the flow...

Roughly 50lbs - 60lbs in there at this point.

JAR, It's just starting the cycle, so I wasn't going to add anything or do any water changes until the cycle is complete.

From what I understand, it's an absolute requirement that I begin a tank journal to be a member of BAR. With that in mind, I will begin chronicling the setup of my Red Sea MAX 250. I received the aquarium on January 22, so there is very little to show so far. As I mentioned in my welcome thread...

Denzil, I stopped by Neptune's Aquatics after work and got some of their fancy engineered rock. I think there are now plenty of crevices for corals and anemones.

Mike, the Coralife skimmer is a secondary. The RSM comes with a decent skimmer so I should be OK.

Thanks for the welcome, Denzil. First, I'll answer your question about the Seneye: I chose this over the others because of 1) price, 2) ease of use, 3) the website dashboard, 4) push notifications, and 5) I like to support the latest thing! ;) About what I intend to stock with... well...

Yes we did! I took your advice and joined as soon as I got back to my office. Definitely glad to be here!

Thanks Gimmito! If only I had something to swap to get started. I have weeks to go before the cycling is done anyway. What's your opinion on the amount of live rock I've got in there? It's only about 25 lbs... I feel like I need more.

Greeting Bay Area Reefers! I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself and provide a bit of my background. I'm mostly new to this hobby. Several years ago, while I was in college, I began keeping a nano reef. I was only able to keep it for a couple of years before I had to move on...