[NYreefNoob]

give it another week or so for water change, get some nassareth snails, turbo's around 10 hermits, i like to keep alot of clean up crew in my tanks, never hurts, looking good so far

[dsgray16]

Alright so i went to New World for my snails and hermit crabs...they continue to live up to their reputation for prices.. but you cant beat the convienence

I now have 6 Nassuria (sp?) snails, 4 Turbos, and 5 blue leg hermits.

Im thinking of picking up another 5 hermits tonight.

What do you guys think?

So what next, wait a few weeks and add fish?

[dsgray16]

Update:

Tank has been setup for about 40 days now. I did my first water change (2 gallons) a few days ago. Perameters checked out, so i went to the LFS for some live stock. I bought a small colony of brown/grean polyps (or Zoas, not sure) and another frag that has several small green hairy mushrooms and some type of tree (leather?) coral. I also bought a tailspot blenny. The coral are all open and appear to doing great. The blenny is eating ferosously! and seems very happy with the algea he can find as well as the pellets i am supplimenting.

I got the coral and fish at New World ($$$$$) and they recomended that i dose calcium and iodine...which goes against everything i have read. I plan to do weekly water changes (2 gallons), and iv read that this should provide all the calcium and trace elements that the coral should need. Please let me know if this is correct.

Pics of the blenny and coral later on!

this is what the polyps look like: http://www.marinedepotlive.com/ps_Vi...Green_OS&tab=2

[masterswimmer]

Never dose ANYTHING to your tank unless you test for it first. Depending upon which brand of salt you use, you might need to dose Ca, Alk, Mg. Those are the most common three. Even with these you should not indiscriminately dose. You should always test before dosing them.

Iodine is definitely not an additive you want to mess with. You can create serious problems if you overdose iodine. Therefore test first and then test after........if you decide to dose iodine.

swimmer

[dsgray16]

yeah i need to get a test kit for calcium. I tested Alk, and its within "normal" range. Thanks for the response

[Matorral]

I dont add any calcium or anything, I just rigurously keep with water changes every week. If you are keeping soft coral they should do fine. My tank, is also a nano cube, just gets NYC tap water changes, I just let the salt water sit with a pump and a heater overnight before adding it to the tank to get rid of the chlorine. Everything is growing nicely even a monti cap, the only sps I have in my tank.

	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

[dsgray16]

Heres a few updated pics:



True Perc (Thanks krak256)


Green Button Polyp:


Xenia of some sort? I have a post in the Identification forum for this:


bad pic of my tailspot blenny in his favorite hiding spot: