Update!

well its been a while since my last post so i thought id post an update, ill start with a befor pic:


Since then there have been many changes ive goten another 25 pounds of LR (very nice stuff) Pic:



i got a new power head and fixed the impeller on my Casade 300, i have about 19x T/O
i also upgraded my lighting from floresent to a T5 fixture with 10k antics

i also got my first inhabitants!
1 Strawberry snail (ill post a pic i think its mislabeled)
1 American star Snail
1 halloween hermit

these guys do a great job cleaning me tank


i also have an assortment of small snails and small brittle starfish

heres that snail:



now i plan to get about 10 more pounds of LR (im at 36 right now its a 30G tank)

i tested my water today here my stuff:
Nitrites: 0
Ammonia:0
Nitrates: 20 (doing 20% WC tomorrow)
PH:8.1
SG:1.021 raising to 1.023 eventually
temp: 26 C
Comments and advice are appreciated
Enjoy

well i plan to get another 10 or so pounds of LR, a couple more hermits and snails, as for fish i want to get a mandarin goby, a orange firefish, and hopefully a purple firefish (i heard from somewhere you cant keep both firefish together) my LR has quite a bit of pods but ill be buying live ones from my LFS for the mandarin other then that i really dont know if i would get any other fish, i also would like to keep some soft corals, perhaps some mushrooms? anyways im planning on taking it slow so hopfully i wont kill anything lol

atnixon said:

With regards to you last post (#3)



I would not recomend getting one of these types of fish till your tank has matured and there is a very sustainable level of copepod colonys for food....Personaly, i advise people to wait till about a year before adding one..
Niko

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My Lfs sells live copepods in refrigerated bottles, if i bought these would i be able to get one?

perhaps ill hold off the mandarin for now then, as for the firefish is it ok to keep purple and orange together?