New to marines

Still hanging in there Kate,good on you!

While those fish are ading to your tanks maturing,finish off anything connnected with your live rock and corals.

Make sure that protein skimmer is doing it's job and once the nitrites are at 0 remove the remote fish drinks container,lol,thats funny!

When you do that,do a large water change to lower the nitrates and that will raise the water quality and add a few of the fish you are keen on to the tank.

With an external bio filter you can have more fish than those that just rely on live rock biological filtering,so you should have a good result for the long term.

Keep something like phosguard on hand and always ensure that any water exiting your tank is prefiltered,nothing should get to your external bio filter except very clean water or it will be come blocked and function poorly!

Good work so far.

Okay,thats the plan than
Just chill until the nitrites go down and watch our potential dinner get bigger
I will give updates once the nitrites get near 0

Excited update
Two tests i have done yesterday and just then when i got home show 0 nitrites
Is the nitrite cycle finished

Never rush it Kate,after over feeding,that is the next biggest fish killer.
A good feeling when things go well ay
What sought of fish are you interested in once your tank is stable?

Still at 0 nitrites and the food for the drinks esky fish has doubled to get it to go up and it won't
I bought a new test kit thinking that it may be why the nitrites are so low so fast
It showed the same reading
The fish i want are wrasse the collecting part of this forum has some wonderful wrasse catches very envious
Never thought i would envy the collecting i hated that when i first saw it
Very excited about my aquarium

Thats me guys i am happy with the aquariums nitrite cycle
Time to get on with putting some fish in
I was wanting to go with the wrasse fish
Any ideas which ones are a nice nature or are all of them nice

I have some wrasse that i thought looked nice and followed the advice on here about choosing healthy fish

liquidg wrote:

This is the same as the one i got from pet city last weekend
They are doing so well
How is that one from your colecting trip doing now
This is really great
Thanks guys for the advice on my aquarium set up it works really well
I will get some pics up one day

They are nice fish hey.
Look at this link,
https://southeastqueenslandm.aforumfree.com/t884-my-first-glass-aquarium-in-two-years

the last picture is some of the fish i have collected for the reef tank and are all doing very well as expected,the other tub has other types that need different foods.

They will either go into the reef tank in a couple of weeks or i may connect the tubs and the 14 year old wet section to the reef system,over flowing from the tubs into the reefs algae scrubber water and returning back through the old wet section to give the reef system a very strong amount of denitrification,instantly maturing the reef system so all the fish can go in at once!

We'll see?