As you can see I set up my 90 corner tank. I was able to get a little over a 5 gallon bucket of 15 year live rock to add to my old indo. Its been 12 years and I forget almost everything. Bank in the day I met with Charles Delbeck and Julian Sprung when they wrote the first reef keepers bible, but that was decades ago so I'm a complete newbie.
So I filled a 45 gallon trashcan and brought the salinity up and let it run for a day before I loaded into the tank. The rest of the water was mixed and put right in. I added some Brightwell XLM starter as per the stores recommendation, and something else that I forgot. Got a KH test kit and it took 10 drops to change the color, so Is that the level then a 10?
I got some coralline gro but don't really know what the correct dose is, so I'm kinda frustrated that I feel like I should be doing more.
I'm all about the big picture, and the little that I have picked up by watching the BRS videos has helped me learn to be disciplined with wanting to rush everything.
What should I be doing next. I have not tested and level yet other than the KH which I don't understand. I'm committed to spend the right money on the right products at the right time, so I just need a gameplan to follow and execute on. I may try to get a few more live rocks to just fill out my plan white indo.
Any and all suggestions welcome please. Thx so much its fun to be getting back to something my family loved so much and I want to make it awesome with some nice fish and a few soft corals.
So I filled a 45 gallon trashcan and brought the salinity up and let it run for a day before I loaded into the tank. The rest of the water was mixed and put right in. I added some Brightwell XLM starter as per the stores recommendation, and something else that I forgot. Got a KH test kit and it took 10 drops to change the color, so Is that the level then a 10?
I got some coralline gro but don't really know what the correct dose is, so I'm kinda frustrated that I feel like I should be doing more.
I'm all about the big picture, and the little that I have picked up by watching the BRS videos has helped me learn to be disciplined with wanting to rush everything.
What should I be doing next. I have not tested and level yet other than the KH which I don't understand. I'm committed to spend the right money on the right products at the right time, so I just need a gameplan to follow and execute on. I may try to get a few more live rocks to just fill out my plan white indo.
Any and all suggestions welcome please. Thx so much its fun to be getting back to something my family loved so much and I want to make it awesome with some nice fish and a few soft corals.