I did use the live sand in bag, and lots of live sand from old tank.I personally would not buy LS in the bag regardless of expiration date. Rather spend it on LR. Eventually every dead things in the tank will be bio active.
I think you have awesome LR as it is hard to tell from 3rd pic which is coral and which is rock.
FIrst one is definitely Euphyllia but not sure if it is hammer or frogspawn or torch.
What seems like blue disk in 3rd pic maybe either mushroom head or perhaps baby pagoda (Stony). I had few pagodas pop up out of blue from time to time as well as Euphyllia + others in very matured systems (15+ yrs old system). Round ring next to blue disk perhaps is closed Euphyllia???
Probably easier to id once well settled and opened in the tank.
Cant wait for pics of fully opened corals in the tank!
here's readings:
Salinity ~~ Nitrate ~~ Phosphate ~~ Ph ~~ Ammonia ~~ Nitrite
Sump:
1.025 ~~~ 5 ~~~2.0 ~~~ 7.8 ~~~ 2.0 ~~~ 0
Tote:
1.026 ~~~ 20 ~~~ 0.5 ~~~ 8.4 ~~~ 0 ~~~ 0
I also have tests for water hardness and copper, but I've never seen them in any of the readings I've seen so I skipped it.
The third picture is tannish brown. and it has a bumpy surface (looks bumpy, I'm afraid to touch anything and killing it)
Also, the forth picture there's like a small little "bubble" colony above the kenya tree.
EDIT:
I just realized that I forgot to do the plumbing from maintank to sump!!! How long should I wait for glue to dry before running water through it?
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