Water paramters ???

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I have 225 reef tank which is 3 weeks old .
I have DSB using southdown sand and 200lbs of live rock Aerofoamer 624 skimmer and bio balls in sump .I will be changing bio balls in few weeks and add some live rock into sump Any suggestions

My water parameters last few day where
2/4/03 i used Salfert test kit
Temo 80.1
PH 8.2
Mag 1330
cal 475
KH /ALK KH= 13.2 Alk = 475
NO2 = .5
NO3 = 0
Sal 1023 sg

2/5/03 light where on when testing 3 250 MH plus VHO attinic
Temp 81.5
PH .8.2
Mag 1380
Cal 470
KH/Alk Kh-=14.5 Alk = 5.20
NO 3 =.5
NO 2 = 0
I have few tang and few shrimp and star and snails in the tank. I have no algae problem and my live rock is starting to come live.

i am new to reef setup .So how does my water paramters look?
I did add alittle SeaChem Reef Advantage .This might be reason for higher reading today. Any suggestions are welcome .

Also I have a small reef tank 55 gallon that i purchased from a guy that has some small red worms and I guess a sea slug the slug is the size of a quarter and is black with white line on his back. Is this good or bad to add to my 225.
Thanks GB

 

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Your parameters look good. Keep doing what you're doing.

You might try looking thru the SeaSlug Forum to see if you can ID your slug: www.seaslugforum.net/

Shane

 

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I must say I'm a little concerned you have "a few tangs" in an aquarium that is only 3 weeks old. My tank ran almost 2 months before I added anything (except for clean-up crew). I would only advise patience before adding more fish or inverts. Your set-up and params look good, just don't forget only bad things happen in a hurry.

 

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Erik
I hjad another tank setup for 2 yrs and had no choice but to place them in my new setup. I did however addd some of the bio balls from my old seyup plus aloty of the sand. I guess that ie why i am not having problems YET
Just hope it stanys that way. The new tank did go thur cycle in 2 weeks
thanks Capt Gene