This is just a reality check for adding first fish to system.
I have a 150g total volume tank with Marco rock cycled since June (MB7, NH4Cl). 15 or so snails are fine, pods are fine, and 5 LPS are growing well. I have Chaeto growing well in refugium, and have been ghost feeding for a week or so and feeding corals with Reef Roids. I also have a small bottle of Turbostart 900 to add a day before the fish. Still working though uglies, but they are minimal at this point even with feeding, amounting to small amounts of hair algae and some film algae, with coralline growth beginning.
I plan to add a few small, QT'd fish in a week: royal gramma, 2X ocellaris, banggai cardinal, Tomini tang (small).
I feel that that bioload won't overwhelm the system and I expect I'll be OK, but please let me know if I should be doing anything else at this time, with a week to go.
I have a 150g total volume tank with Marco rock cycled since June (MB7, NH4Cl). 15 or so snails are fine, pods are fine, and 5 LPS are growing well. I have Chaeto growing well in refugium, and have been ghost feeding for a week or so and feeding corals with Reef Roids. I also have a small bottle of Turbostart 900 to add a day before the fish. Still working though uglies, but they are minimal at this point even with feeding, amounting to small amounts of hair algae and some film algae, with coralline growth beginning.
I plan to add a few small, QT'd fish in a week: royal gramma, 2X ocellaris, banggai cardinal, Tomini tang (small).
I feel that that bioload won't overwhelm the system and I expect I'll be OK, but please let me know if I should be doing anything else at this time, with a week to go.