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diastiss

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Hey guys,

Got hooked into building a SW tank. I bought a 55 gallon tank/stand/canopy (everything off craigslist) I have 2 marineland biowheel penguin 300 filters (each one good for 70g), a 200wt heater, 3 630gph power heads on on the left one on the right and one behind rock shooting toward the right. Compact florecents with 2 96 wt bulbs (1 12k daylight and 1 ast) with built in moonlights. Around 60lbs of live rock and 15 lbs of fill rock. A sand/crushed coral mix of bed ranging from 1"-6" depth (I bought the LR and sand from a guy that had a 3yr old tank he cracked last week. I have a digital GFI power strip, stick on thermometer/hydrometer.

I have had the tank "cycling" for almost a week now with the LF and Sand. Ammonia levels are high with small amounts of nitrite and nitrate.

Starting to get brown algae on the live sand and rock, Hoping for the best! :)
 
:hi: I've moved your thread to the marine section where it will get more views. Most all tanks start getting a brown layer of film. This is diatoms. Your clean up crew will get rid of this when your cycle is done. Welcome aboard. SH
 
thanks guys! :) here's a few pics of my tank

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:hi: to the salty side :fun:

Couple of things:

You have my pet hate going on - the marine background paper :blink: most of us use either plain black or blue.

You also seem to have some corals in your tank?

last but not least: liking your aquascape :good:

what are your plans?

Seffie x
 
yea, i dunno i kinda like the background. might go black since the stand is black :good: I bought all the live rock from a 3yr old tank that cracked. The mushrooms (the coral?) are green mushrooms i think, i don't know what they are really called :blush: They just look cool, i hope the survive the cycle process. I'd like to just keep the live rock in there with a full set of janitors and just a few fish. I'm gonna take it slow cause I really lack the experience with this, open to suggestions? B-)

The last pic is what i think is a serpent starfish. There are about 6 of them in the tank that i can see. They were hidden and started popping up in the last few days. The ammonia levels are starting to fall and the nitrites are coming with the brown algae.
 
Ello there!

The mushrooms are closed up in that picture but they appear to be hairy mushrooms. Beautiful coral once they all open. Fairly hardy as well so good chance it'll make the cycle. Sounds like you're half way there already.
I agree with Seffie on backgrounds :p

Any idea for stocking yet?
 

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