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Again, thanks to all here who have helped the wife and I in getting back into the marine aquarium hobby. According to my previous experience, things are progressing rather rapidly in our new tank, and we couldn't be happier so far. I know it's still very early in the game, but I think all is well at this point. Any further advice will be greatly appreciated. The plans for this tank are a few fish, anemones, and corals, but not an abundance of any. We have spent lots of hours re-aquainting ourselves with this hobby, and are trying to do everything right, without getting too carried away with too much "voo-doo". The water is stabilized at 77.4 to 78.6 F, and Nitrites/Ammonia have been un-detectable for the last week and a half. The Chaeto in the sump, and the Caleurpa in the tank are doing very well, and staying nice and green (good, yes?) We cycled this (110 gal) with about 45 lbs live rock, a dozen damsels, the macro algaes, and 8 large turbo snails. As of today there are no traces of Nitrates or Phosphates. I did add a Nitrate coil about a week ago, so we'll see if it makes any difference in the future. Today I added a make-up water dripper with Kalk, so I'm going to be learning more about that too. Our only problem has been getting the PH up (been around 7.9 to 8.0), and we're hoping that the Kalk will help with that. There are lots of life popping up every day, and that is always exciting. There's some mushrooms, tube worms, bristle worms, and some unidentified encrusting sponges that already seem to be proliferating. A lot of red and purple coralines are also starting to cover areas of the rock. We had a bacterial bloom, and a lot of brown diatoms that took over early on, but they are all completely gone as of now. There is some bright green micro algae showing up, but not much to speak of. Sorry for the crappy photography, but this is the aquarium today. If you compare it to the pic we posted a month ago, there's a huge difference! Thanks again to everyone here for your help!