90 gallon build..need help please

[Ian]

YAY water is in warm and holding at 1.023 SG........starting to get excited

[Ian]

So need some more advice...I have had about 100-110 pds of live rock in for just over 2 weeks now and have been testing daily... temp is stable at 79, ph at 8.2, amonia was never high (below 1) and fell to 0,10 days ago, and nitrite levels to 0 the next day....nitrate are now down and have been for a week,below 2ppm. I used rock that was purchased from CR members and used live sand as well. Is it possible that the system is cycled or have I missed something..oh and I have a couple very small unidentified hitchhiker snails cruising around as well..
I am anxious to add some life to the tank but don't want to kill any fish out of haste...
What should I add next if it is time?..cuc,

[Myka]

Sounds good! When both ammonia and nitrite have been 0 for a week straight and nitrate is below 10 ppm you can add a small clean up crew. Maybe half a dozen Astrea or Trochus and half a dozen Cerith or Nassarius? Personally, I'm not a big fan of hermits since they are predatory. If you do want to add some, just add a few. Scarlets seem to be the lesser of the evils.

[Ian]

Well things seem to be going nicely 75 snails of various kinds added in the last 2 weeks and all tests are good nitrates and nitrites are down, calcium at 440.....nearing time to add some fish....
here are a couple new picksto be checked out
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[Ian]

I had these come attached to some of the rock that I picked up. They went in 10 days ago and are doing fine

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[Ian]

Hehe I mentioned that it was time to start putting fish into the new tank and she came home with a tang to get things started......A sailfin tang...it is gorgeous and I will enjoy it untikl it outgrows my tank.....

[Ian]

I need some help/advice. I am using a quiet one 4000 as my return pump and for the most part is has been good, until today that is. The power went out this morning while I was at work and I just got home to find that the pump had not re started. I could hear a bit of a hum from it but the impellor was not turning. This happened once a couple weeks ago as well when I had to shut it down to do some re-arranging. In both instances I had to unplug the pump pull it out of the sump and move the implellor by hand then when I replaced it in the sumpit started to work. I have taken it apart and can find no visible problems so what now? This obviously cannot be left to go on this way, my tank had dropped 5 degrees in the time I was away, if I had been further along in stocking it could have been a very costly problem.
Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
Or can you suggest a good replacement pump in about the same price range..