Man... I guess it was a week and a half to two weeks.
Basically, I mixed up some RO/DI with some salt, put it in the tank, added my live rock, added some dead krill, then threw the damsels in there a few days ago. My other tank started getting nasty so I moved the puffers over. They seem ah-ight. I'm using cheapo test strips and I need to get a better test kit for sure, but my numbers looked good. I didn't get any algae breakouts because my lighting sucks right now. I'm wet skimming because I don't think that my skimmer can do anything else but wet-skim. LOL
I'm really taking this slow (as you can tell). My next orders of business are as follows:
1. substrate and more LR
2. better skimmer and flow
3. redo sump
4. figure out lighting
5. build canopy
6. skin the stand
I don't know too much about corals so I'll take that one slow. I do know that I want to be SPS dominant (if I can hack it) for the most part.
Oh, and I want an anemone or two, too. I know, right. I dream small...