timnem70;n635010 said:
There is no way that tank is setup yet to support the stuff you have put in there and it be sustainable for long term success. I'm not busting balls but I really care about the creatures lives.
Kind of hard (impossible) to make statements like that. There are many ways to speed up a cycle; existing tank water, live rock from other tanks, livesand, even natural seawater. Without knowing the numbers for NH3, PO3, PO4, etc it's difficult to say if the tank is ready for creatures. There is also nothing that says that fish need to be introduced first. There are a handful of studies that show fish help corals survive there is no direct proof.
To each their own. There is no rules in this hobby (well aside from the chemical ones and physics of stuff).
Reef, have you invested in a test kit and watched the nitrates, phosphates, and ammonia over the last few weeks?