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so i tested my water this morning and it reads ammonia 0.25 nitrite 0.1 natrate 5.0 this is my second week in cycling my tank. Is this right?

yeah i'm just using the damsels as cycling fish. i'ma goin to give them away once my tank is done cycling, then comes my corals!!! i'm sooo excited.

Okay so I've had a single yellow tail damsel in my tank for about 1 week now, and just today I went out and bought 3 more blue damsels and a single clown fish to add to the tank. I'm cycling my tank and I just tested for the amonia level and its about 0.25 right now. The fish seem to be happy living in my tank. I will post up pictures soon. thanks everybody!!

What should I do to get rid of the diatoms?

like what levels should it all be at?

Okay so for the situation that I'm in, what am I looking for as far as as the chemicals in my tank such as. ph, nitrate, nitrate, etc?

Would I aslo need an air pump in the tank to create bubbles?

Man this place is awesome!!!!! The people here are very active and have responded to my questions pretty fast. Thank you everyone for helping me out.

So all I really need is a poly filter in my sump, and that pretty much keeps my tank clean?

As for my sump/filtration setup I plan on construction kind of like a DYI type of thing. Water from the tank going into a poly filter then filtering down into the bio balls, in the next section in the sump i'll have a protein skimmer and a porous sponge going into for water to pass into the pump section of my sump. Is this an adequate setup for a reef tank?

No I will not be puting corals or fish till I get this pump (mag 7)I just hope my rocks will still be alive because they were already sitting in circulation only water for about two weeks previously and now another week. I bought products from marinedepot.com and I got the free shipping bonous, how long does that usually take to get here in the DC area?

Will the tank be fine for a week this way till I get a pump? I'm looking to set up a reef tank. I'm just afraid that it might be bad for the live sand or the live rock since there is no filtration just a powerhead

Hi, so I just bought a 90gallon corner reef ready tank, stand, sump, 1/5 chiller, 400w metal halide with 2 32w actinic, 20 gallon sump, protein skimmer, and I have a mag drive 7 pump on the way. So I filled my tank up with 140lbs live sand, 100lbs live rocks, and water yesterday and I have the water set to 80 degrees with 1.026 salinity. I have a koralia 3 powerhead to circulate the water, but I don't have my sump/filtration set up yet because I'm waiting on my pump to come in the mail in about a week or so, is this bad? The water is cloudy from puttin the live sand in yesterday.