Reef Milestones

[DEE’S reef]

I know I’m a few month away from the 1 year milestone of having reef tank.
But One of my questions is this after tanks been going for a year would you be safe to add coral?
Question 2:
What are some of the reef keeping milestones?
Question 3: what are the big key events of a tanks life?

 

[KrisReef]

I checked your tank thread and you bought a solid tank and made a great effort to get it
Mile stone 1 Set up Scaped and Cycled!
Mile stone 2 Added fish and kept them alive
Mile stone 3 Demonstrated restraint before adding corals (some of us never get past 2!)
Mile stone 4 Start regularly updating your build thread. It will force you to realize your mileage!
Mile stone 5 For you will be adding corals,

What kind of light do you have and what kind of corals do you want to keep?
Mile stone 6 Maintaining stable Alk!

I don't have the stones to go further, It's dinner time

 

[Tahoe61]

I don't think it's about the length of time. One of my tank is almost 2, finally growing coraline. The presence of coraline growth is a better indicator of a systems ability to grow corals successfully imo.
Use quality live rock and you can avoid some pitfalls that a 6 month old tank using dry rock will go through.

You need to update your tank thread.

 

[DEE’S reef]

I don't think it's about the length of time. One of my tank is almost 2, finally growing coraline. The presence of coraline growth is a better indicator of a systems ability to grow corals successfully imo.
Use quality live rock and you can avoid some pitfalls that a 6 month old tank using dry rock will go through.

You need to update your tank thread.

I know I haven’t realized how long it been since I’ve updated the thread but I’ve had coralline since like April maybe before April but my tank was taken over a month ago with cyano but now it white beautiful sand

 

[DEE’S reef]

I checked your tank thread and you bought a solid tank and made a great effort to get it
Mile stone 1 Set up Scaped and Cycled!
Mile stone 2 Added fish and kept them alive
Mile stone 3 Demonstrated restraint before adding corals (some of us never get past 2!)
Mile stone 4 Start regularly updating your build thread. It will force you to realize your mileage!
Mile stone 5 For you will be adding corals,

What kind of light do you have and what kind of corals do you want to keep?
Mile stone 6 Maintaining stable Alk!

I don't have the stones to go further, It's dinner time

For my lights I have two AI Hydra 32s and I want to start with some cool mushrooms and zoas

 

[Tahoe61]

You could easily start with a couple LPS like Duncan or Candy Cane.
Soft corals would be the leathers, sinularia, Zoanthids (avoid palys), GSP.

 

[KrisReef]

For my lights I have two AI Hydra 32s and I want to start with some cool mushrooms and zoas

Mushrooms and zoas can overrun a small aquarium quickly compared with hard corals, which grow relatively slowly compared with softies.

Make plans to keep the softies in their place, planting them on an “island” in the sand is a popular method.

But the lights are good enough, plan on coral growth as you go.