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So Coral Farmer Market is upcoming this month of September 20. What should I get?

Too clean, lil suspicious like a calm weather before a big storm.

So I add a lawnmower blenny a few days ago. Dude a beast! Destroy the green hair algae in tank quickly! Now rocks are clean and sand are mostly free of hair algae. Idk if I should even buy snails clean up crew.

Update

3 weeks 3 days. Ugly stage in! Time to get some cleanup crew. Percula clownfish pair in a few days ago, seem happy. In supernova anemone one clownfish seem to host (I assume is the female dominated one of the pair) both look similar so I can’t tell which is which.

That’s what I’m hoping for

Put in a tester frag of gsp from a buddy shut down tank, it open up. Then again gsp are pretty hardy.

Yesterday I dosed ammonium chloride to increase ammonium level to about 1 ppm, was 1 ppm ammonium now safe. All this within 24hrs so good signs so far!

I love sps, especially the Tenius. Used to keep too. In rsr250

Nice

FYI, SORRY guys but this will not be a torch tank like last tank(hopefully :) ). Thinking mix reef, maybe 1-2 torch, a few tenius(WD, Homewrecker, SC orange Passion, maybe at 6month mark hopefully) Will be experimenting with all for reef dosing! If downhill from all for reef, will be back on...

Thanks for input, this my 6th-8th time starting saltwater tank. Check out my tank journals. I like putting down the ups and downs of cycling tank. It’s fun to figure out what’s going on. Way too early to add copepods/ phytoplankton.I only add when I’m planning on keep a mandarin or dragonett.

Just add another dosage of ammonium chloride drops. Hopefully get some nitrates in couple days. What do you think?

Ammonium nitrite nitrates zero, but I want some nitrates. Guess algae ate it all hence the algae bloom

Little algae bloom, good signs! Day 5