Cycling Reef Tank with Live Rock

Finally, cycling Time!,  Here is a picture of the Live Rock I selected to seed my tank. It had some nice Coraline Algae, a couple sponges and some tube worms.  It was very interesting to watch even without any fish or coral yet.



















Since this is a new tank as it cycled I did see some evidence that things were progressing as they should.

 














Although Not desirable in the long term.  Some green hair algae when you're getting started is ok.  It means that you're on the right track.  As long as you use RODI water with 0 TDS and do frequent changes, you will starve it out.