new 24 g aquapod set up wish me luck

[mcrbar910]

Hey guys. To everyone who has answered my questions thank you so much. My aquapod got delivered today We are so excited. I got love sand, and live rock. I got beautiful rock at a bargain price at an awesome price. Look at all the colors. I even see some coral and a few hitchhicker tiny starfish. Sorry it is cloudy we just set it up 30 minutes ago. Tell me what you think. Wow we have several feather dusters popping out now too. So exciting. I am trying to post some pictures.

 

[mcrbar910]

Guys look at my gallery to see some of my stuff, but the great full view picture and the picture of my "hitchikers" are bigger than 50 how do I shrink them enough to get them on. Wow we are amazed at everything popping out of the rock.

 

[mcrbar910]

starfish hitchicker

starfish hitchicker

 

[mcrbar910]

rock day 1

rock day 1

 

[mcrbar910]

tank day 1

tank day 1

 

[mcrbar910]

Guys the first picture has a star by the coral. One hitchicker we have seen 3 of these I could not shring the picture of the feathers for some reason to fit. I am thrilled with day 1 so much new life. Look in my gallery for more

 

[ezcompany]

looks great!
i see the star and coral.
if u want them to survive the cycle u might want to transfer them. the ammonia/nitrite spike will rape it

 

[mcrbar910]

I bought live sand (bag), and live rock right out of lfs tank. I also got 10 gallons established water from their tank and 10 gallons of new ro/di salt premixed by them. Does that give them a better shot?

 

[mcrbar910]

day 2 water results

day 2 water results

salt 1.026
ph 8.1
ammonia 0
nitrate 0
ammonia 0

LFS said that he thought only a couple days till we could do a clown with buying his water, rock, and live sand. What do you guys think and what do you think of my numbers for day?

 

[theop]

Test you alkalinity, as I suspect it will be low and that is why your pH is on the low side.

You'll probably need to start adding some alk buffer to maintain your levels and get your pH up to 8.3. This is very common for new tanks.

Otherwise, your numbers look great. If you don't have any ammonia or nitrites after 4 days, you should be good. In theory you should not have any cycle when using established LR, but there is always the possibility of die-off when transferring the rock, especially if it had any sponges which were exposed to air.

 

[Newreeflady]

The pH is fine, my tank runs 7.95 to 8.15 with no problems.

I think that you should wait on the fish.

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