New tank

[Trilobite]

Tank has been setup almost 2.5 weeks.
75 gallon
R.O. water used
35 lbs of live rock
Live sand
Healthy growth of brown algae
No ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate detected
3 tail spot Blenny
4 bumble bee snails
1 bumble bee impersonator hermit crab
2 astrea snails
1 arrow crab

Pic attached.
Question:
What next?

 

[randomfishdude]

depending on what you're doing with the tank you add fish and maybe some coral every week or so. keep an eye on the ammonia. some people will say the tank is too young to have anything in it but if it alertly appears to be cycled its fine just like i said watch the ammonia.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

observe and enjoy and research and maintain good husbandry habits.

 

[randomfishdude]

observe and enjoy and research and maintain good husbandry habits.

+1 on the husbandry habits.

I messed up and forgot to do stuff to my tanks. I was lucky it didn't crash.

 

[CasperOe]

Next? Enjoy- and take it slow! If you think at any point "Hmm, maybe it's too early to do this or add this/that" it probably is!

Oh- and YouTube! A lot! Be mindful of information overload; in stead of trying to listen to everyone, listen to someone and try to mirror their success.

 

[00W]

Study and read on R2R!
Go slow and enjoy.
I see a fluval canister filter so maybe a sump?
Skimmer addition?
Looking good . If it were mine I'd add more live rock. But, that's just me.
I like rock.

 

[Trilobite]

Still no detectable ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate. Ph 8.28, sp 1.024, temp 78.8.
Livestock additions
3 blue leg hermits
2 clowns (had to have them)
3 peppermint shrimp
1 tuxedo urchin
Small snails
A few frags of soft coral.

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Swap either main filter (cage) to right or wavemaker/ vice versa, flow from wavemaker should blow towards main filter, otherwise it's blowing everything away from the suction of internal filter

 

[Uncle99]

Still no detectable ammonia, nitrite, or nitrate. Ph 8.28, sp 1.024, temp 78.8.
Livestock additions
3 blue leg hermits
2 clowns (had to have them)
3 peppermint shrimp
1 tuxedo urchin
Small snails
A few frags of soft coral.

You need to have a stable level trace amount of nitrate and phosphate at all times or your system will starve and mature very very slowly, or allow the bad algaes to win.

 

[Trilobite]

Swap either main filter (cage) to right or wavemaker/ vice versa, flow from wavemaker should blow towards main filter, otherwise it's blowing everything away from the suction of internal filter

Thanks, i have another pump behind the live rock on the right blowing towards the filter.

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Thanks, i have another pump behind the live rock on the right blowing towards the filter.

Great, alot of dead spots unfortunately, I have similar setup but more raised aquascape, I suffer with dead spots, I have 10watt and 5watt wavemakers either side that work great together, I have these dead spots in my aquriam, I hope this helps as you may find this a problem

 

[Trilobite]

Excellent. Appreciate the heads-up!