Rookie seeking help

[Brew12]

Will do. I'll do that as soon as I get off work and hopefully my cycle wont be slowed down by too much. Any other advice or things I should be doing in the mean time? Or is it just time to play the waiting game?

Pretty much need to wait it out at this point.
Have you had a chance to read this?
https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/cycling-an-aquarium.303/

 

[RJS2515]

Pretty much need to wait it out at this point.
Have you had a chance to read this?
https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/cycling-an-aquarium.303/

Good read, helped my understanding of whats happening in my tank a lot

 

[RJS2515]

While I am waiting for ammonia levels to drop in my tank does anyone have any advice on keeping the birdsnest and flower pot corals I have? I couldnt find much about flower pot coral care and non of the birdsnest I see advice about online look like mine. Ill post pictures a little later. thanks

 

[RJS2515]

 

[RJS2515]

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These are the two corals I currently have. Pretty much all I could find about the flower pot is that it doesn't like too much light? But others say it does and mine seems to open up more under intense lighting so I'm confused. As for the birds nest I couldn't find any info on ones that look like mine. Mostly just the ones with the bristles and mostly pink ones

 

[BrettMallette]

These are the two corals I currently have. Pretty much all I could find about the flower pot is that it doesn't like too much light? But others say it does and mine seems to open up more under intense lighting so I'm confused. As for the birds nest I couldn't find any info on ones that look like mine. Mostly just the ones with the bristles and mostly pink ones

Your flowerpot is an alveopora. Like a goniopora but easier to care for. They love to eat so light lvls arent that important. As far as the birdsnest it looks grunpy. Does it have any polyp extension at all?

 

[RJS2515]

Your flowerpot is an alveopora. Like a goniopora but easier to care for. They love to eat so light lvls arent that important. As far as the birdsnest it looks grunpy. Does it have any polyp extension at all?

It doesn't seem to, it looks completely smooth to me. Is that a bad sign ?

 

[BrettMallette]

It doesn't seem to, it looks completely smooth to me. Is that a bad sign ?

It depends if its actually a birdsnest or not... cant rly tell from the pics with no PE...