Recent content by Gjinn

Im a horrible photographer also, but wanted to say your coraline growth IS excellent and very beautiful.

Very cool idea and it looks fantastic. I love seeing people stretch out beyond the standard tropical reef setups you usually see. You have some beautiful fish there.

Are they big tetras or little ones? Some tetras may nip at your shrimp some (if the shrimp even allows it to come that close) but usually the smaller species are pretty peaceful. Everything else will ignore them. I have 3 amano shrimp in my 26 planted and I love them. They are in there with a...

No idea what Im gonna stock just yet. Im looking at gobys, blennies, clowns and some diffrent pseudochromis. Gonna take my time and do my research. For now Im just happy to have a few critters roaming around. Ideally this tank is going to be for all types of soft and hard corals, thats its main...

Just wanted to drop by and say that after 2 months my tank finally finished its cycle. I picked up another 13lbs of fresh, cured LR and relandscaped. I also picked up a brittle star and a few snails so things are looking great now. Here is a pick of the tank(with its new light and rock)

:) Things are going ok, Im still cycling. Ammonia is gone but Nitrites are sky high. Im doing 10% about once a week and just monitoring params. Still not one single visible hitchhiker in the tank. Nothings coming out of the rock, nothings grown and it appears that Im losing more and more color...

Well I spent a very long time last night scrubbing my LR and getting quite a bit of dirt,algae and dead mats off of it. Alot of work! Im seeing alot of spots on the rock that are just white/grey areas, Im assuming this is the core rock that has not coraline growth on it. Hopefully the coraline...

knowse thanks for the response. Yes the R/O water was salt mixed outside the tank. Should have clarified that. And yeah I realized Im actually "curing" the rock inside the tank. I guess tonight Ill begin cleaning off my rock and relaying it as I clean. Wish I had done that off the bat but oh...

Hello all, First I would like to say thank you to everyone here at Reefs.org. This site has been absolutely amazing in the help its provided me setting up my first reef tank. The forums and library are full of awesome information! Ive recommended the site many times over to others getting...