Hello everyone! Happy Mother’s Day to you and yours! Just set up my first saltwater tank today. It’s a 36 gallon bowfront tank. Salinity is 1.024 ph 8.1 temp 76 nitrate 0 nitrite 0 ammonia 0.25. I have 50 pounds of live rock in it. 2 inch sand bed of CaribSea special grade reef sand. I used di water mixed it with fritz rpm salt mix. I am using a Marineland c-220 canister filter and a aqua knight light temporarily until my xr15 gen5 comes in along with my mp40 wavemaker. I do not intend on running a protein skimmer for now. I have a thin acrylic top I made as a lid. Just wanted to share with everyone and gather input in case I am doing something wrong or not. Hoping to get some live stock in there ASAP but I’m hearing 6 weeks until I can which is fine rather do it slow and steady and right the first time.