Its just starting out, w/ no livestock as of yet, I found a tube worm or two, a couple of bristleworms, and some kind of crab hitch-hikers... I know the pictures aren't pretty, but its just starting....
I don't know what a few of the things are on the rocks, thus the close-ups if anyone wants to help..
Today was the first sign of the
ammonia spike,
nitrite spike, and niitrate spike on the downslope so we are going to be able to stock soon! The ammonia three days ago was 2.0 nitrite was 1.0, and
nitrate was 20ppm... yesterday ammonia was 1.0, nitrite was 0.5, nitrate was slightly lower....
this morning nitrite read -0-. ammonia was -0-, and nitrate was 10.... I am going to re-read for the next 5 days then ad my clean-up crew and my clownfish if the water parameters are the same. (I retested the ammonia,nitrite and nitrate I couldn't belive it.. I still want the nitrate lower but its a big jump!)