When can i start to add frags?

[tosiek]

Before you add any coral or fish in the tank you need to learn to test your calcium and alk, along with all your other parameters. What are you buffering your calc/alk with?

Testing and maintaining your water parameters is the most important thing. If you can't test your water don't go adding coral because if something goes wrong and your not testing or checking for it you won't know how to fix it in time. These are LIVE animals.

also the nitrate, nitrite and ammonia levels are important when first starting up the tank. don't rush into it unless all are at 0 except nitrate which should be readable but low.

Search the forums there is alot of info out on everything. Also the wet/dry is going to be a nitrate factory for you.

 

[tosiek]

Oh and those dip test kits don't work too well. And the reason you can't keep SPS is because your lighting isn't high enough (or barely) and your method of filtration is going to keep the water not as clean as is needed to keep the colors in the SPS. The bakpack skimmer is descent for LPS but not going to skim enough for SPS, and the wet/dry is not the best choice for filtering a reef. Going to have alot of junk collecting in there that will decay and produce nitrates and phosphates which will make your SPS go brown. Also there is a level of experience and tank maturity thats needed to keep SPS successfully. I would go some zoa polyps and mushrooms and some easy LPS for now.

Remember add stuff slowly, your tanks freshly cycled and a big increase in waste in the tank will cause another cycle and kill things.

 

[ming]

read this first, will give you a better understanding of stocking your tank

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-03/cj/index.php

Its funny looking at the name which posted the link after reading the article

 

[rbtwo4]

Oh and those dip test kits don't work too well. And the reason you can't keep SPS is because your lighting isn't high enough (or barely) and your method of filtration is going to keep the water not as clean as is needed to keep the colors in the SPS. The bakpack skimmer is descent for LPS but not going to skim enough for SPS, and the wet/dry is not the best choice for filtering a reef. Going to have alot of junk collecting in there that will decay and produce nitrates and phosphates which will make your SPS go brown. Also there is a level of experience and tank maturity thats needed to keep SPS successfully. I would go some zoa polyps and mushrooms and some easy LPS for now.

Remember add stuff slowly, your tanks freshly cycled and a big increase in waste in the tank will cause another cycle and kill things.

thanks tosiek

 

[rbtwo4]

Its funny looking at the name which posted the link after reading the article

lol