oppinions and advice needed

[JellyMan]

Ha she would have hated being at my house when I set up the 125 I had about 154 gallons in my floor Im glad your tank is on the downside of the cycle yote keep us updated man.

[yote]

lol,She hates those jugs of water so much shes decided I need to start looking at ways to find the space to hook up an RO/DI unit.
Just run my tests again;
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
nitrate-0.5
alkilinity-12
Calcium-440
Salinity-1.026SG or 35ppt
Phosphate-0

Just dropped in 5 trubos and one emerald crab Going to let them do there thing untill next weekend .
Its nice to finaly have something in there to watch besides worms.

[Bifferwine]

Sounds good Yote. I'm glad things are going well for you! And wow, good job with those nitrates...

[yote]

I honestly dont know what I done to those nitrates Biff.All I did was change 15 gallon of water last night.Just got lucky I guess,,but heck,I'll take luck anyday.

[yote]

Ok it happened this morning. Took the wife into Bermuda with me this morning and lost ever bit of my self-control.
She liked the little ocellaris clowns so we brought 2 of em home.
Finally something cool to watch

[JellyMan]

oces are pretty cool little guys you should get alot of enjoyment out of them. Good choice of fish

[yote]

Yeah,I like em jelly,and my kids love em.I like the way they meet you at the front of the tank,kinda like little puppys.

[RigoSharon]

good luck yote ..im ansious to see pics buddy..

[jhnrb]

Good luck with the new additions and congrats.

[hibye]

Originally Posted by yote

I'm finally getting started on swapping my 55gal freshwater over to reef and want to y'alls opinions. I'm planning on trying to keep a few soft corals,LPS,and some of the easier SPS corals. As far as fish go,just planning on a
1-bicolor blenny
2-ocellaris clowns
1-six line wrasse
1 maybe 2 yellowhead jawfish
1-serpent star
Then of course a good cleaner crew.
The system;
nove extreme 48" 432 watt t-5 light
2- emperor 400's
2-magnum 350 canisters,,,,,mostly for water flow
coralife superskimmer 220
With a 5 to 6 inch sand bed and 50 to 60 lbs of live rock.

Let me know what yall think .

oh yeah,,,,gotta have a BTA also later on after its all up and running and stabilized.

if your getting a cleaning crew dont get any emerald crabs because i got one and he ate my mandarin,six line,2peppermint shrimp,1cleaner ,and a skunk clown so i traded him for a peppermint shrimp.