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So I'm up to a 75 gallon now. Geez, this hobby hooks you. no pun intended. : )

Got two mollies in there taking care of the hair algae, very cool!!!! more later.

Well, the tank is quite good. The devil damsel went back to the LFS, have a 6-line wrasse and the domino damsel, along with a small goniopora who's eating nicely, a hawaiian featherduster and a tiny star. All seem to be doing well, been really keeping an eye on levels, haven't been too far off at all, when they start to move I do a water change and everything is well again. The star is doing a nice job going through the sand, which is where most of the crap seems to be that might cause proble

Hmmm. Back from Memorial Day visit, tested levels on the tank aand ammonia is nothing, nitrate is between 5 and 10 ppm, and nitrites are nil.
The pH is about 8.4.

I'm at about a week on the tank. The fish store sold me some enzyme stuff which contains:

Lactobacillus species
Rhodospirillum species
Thiobacillus species
Alcaligenes species
Buffers and nutrients to maintain viable activity

Did

OK! The tank is topped off, Ph is better and SG is pretty good, I put a couple pieces of cooked shrimp in there to rot. mmmm.

Temp is 80!!! Yea!!! It's because this house is too hot. I kind of balk at getting a chiller for a 5g tank, but I am interested in upgrading (maybe a year if things go well...)

Think I'm going to stick with FOWLR for a few months then try reef stuff. Still not certain on the definition of "invertabrates" -- do crabs and shrimp count as well as shrooms and