I took a water sample to the store and they said it looks like the tank is already cycled and ready for fish. So now we are trying to decide which one to add first. We are thinking about a pair of clown fish, a royal gramma, a wrasse or a goby.
We thought it would take longer to see the cycle, or that the snails and hermit crabs would start it, but they said that the fact we have healthy feather dusters all over the live rock means it's already cured and that the water parameters are safe for fish.
When I asked them about the possibility of the hermit crabs killing the snails for their shells when they out grow out of their own, they said it would probably happen, but to view the snails and hermit crabs as temporary. I'm going to get Ryan to get some pretty shells from one of the stores in Gulf Shores anyway, just in case we can entice them to use those instead.
We still have salinity issues and we had to get more salt. However, we got the reef tank salt with higher calcium this time. Our calcium is finally at the desired level of 420 ppm.
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