New 28G FOWLR Setup

A few days ago I started setting up my empty 28G. After a few hours of day 1 I finally was able to get my salinity right and got some live sand in the tank. I went and got some live rock the next day, but only ended up bringing home 5 lbs :headshake2: The guy there told me that I should just buy a few damsels and not worry about the live rock until cycled. I ended up with the live rock because I figured it would help the cycle and 2 Chrysiptera parasema (Yellow Tail) and 1 Dascyllus melanurus (Four Stripe). After some research I think I will be taking the damsels back pretty soon as I see they are agressive. :mad2: Im pretty upset with myself as I always research the hell out of things for my freshwater, but was stupid and impulse bought the fish for this one.

Sorry for my useless rambling Here is a pic of the tank I just took. The hideous structure in the middle will be removed once i get more live rock. I felt sorry for the fish with nothing to hide behind.

Yeah, I've heard that it is better to get all live rock at once, but when I found it to be over $9 a pound I needed to get some somewhere else. I will have it all within the next couple of days hopefully. As for cycling with the fish, I agree with you and I don't normally do it this way. Something got the best of me and I went against my better judgment. The tank has been running 4 days now, 3 with fish and rock and my ammonia is 0, nitrIte is 0, PH 8.4, Alk is somewhere between 1.7-2.8 which reads normal, haven't tested nitrAtes yet, and the fish seem to be doing well. I figured I would have an ammonia reading atleast so I'm confused.