65G AIO mixed reef

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This is my first standard sized reef tank. I decided to go with a JBJ 65g rimless AIO aquarium. The base rock was once fiji live rock from my old nano tank from 10 years ago that I had to shut down when I went to college. The live rock I ordered from Sandy Bottom Reef and it is absolutely gorgeous! It is full of sponges, barnacles, and different seaweed species. My favorite is the red branched looking one. It has been cycling for several days now. I added Dr. Tim's nitrifying bacteria the day I added some rock, and also got some copepods and phyro from my LFS. Current equipment is 2x AI Primes, JBJ digital sensor and thermometer, 5g Innovative Marine ATO reservoir and Aqua Duetto ATO. The two return pumps that came with the tank seem sufficient for now (2x 530 gph). I have 4 chambers in the back to add things to. I ditched the filter media that came with it and will probably add 2 filter Because of the limited size of the chambers, I decided that I am going to add a sump system to this tank. I got an Eshopps PF-800 HOB overflow and AR-100 Eshopps sump.
 
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This was the first day ny tank started cycling on 6/14. Amazingly even the old dried live Fiji rock I had combined with live sand was able to Kickstart a cycle.
 

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This was the first day of adding 30 lbs of my aquacultured "semi cured" reef rock
 

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This is how my tank currently looks today after doing a 25% water change on the 14th day. Yesterday, ammonia dropped below 0.2 ppm and nitrites dropped to 0 wirg nitrates at 10 ppm. I have extensive diatom and green hair algae growth. Going to order a reef cleaning crew from reefcleaners and some chaeto for my fuge this week once it arrives.
 

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Set up and stocked my frag QT and fish QT (10g and 20g long). I bought 3 frags from Tidal gardens: neon green candy cane, hell's eye chalice, and sunburst montipora. Fish are a royal gramma and trio of Asian captive bred Talbot's damselfish, both from diver's den.

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