Vince's 55g Starter Tank

[vince0]

Ammonia was down to zero, Nitrite is at zero. I was getting a reading of Nitrate around 30ppm so I did a 40% ro water change (with salt of course). I now don't show a reading for nitrate either. I have a bunch of green algeas growing on the front glass, they almost look like plants. I had a bloom of brown algea as well but on the live rock, it seems to have receded. There is some nice purple coraline algea starting to grow.

I think this weekend I will add a sand or fine gravel bed to the tank to get it ready for a cleaning crew. I may add another raw shrimp in there to keep a source of ammonia for the bacteria in the tank as I still don't have anything other than bristle worms and copepods living in here.

I'm also planning on purchasing a few more pounds of live rock to help seed the dry rock I had purchased.

I'm getting kind of excited about having the cleaning crew in there, It'll be something more to look at than the minor life forms in there lol!