I proceeded filling up the tank with Reverse Osmosis water that I bought from a near by bottled water company, I used R/O water because thats what the clerk at the pet store told me I needed. I let the tank run with just water for about a week, until I went to the store and bought all that rock. Again on the advise of the sale clerk I waited a couple of days before I put any fish in the tank and when I did I had to buy Damsels because they were extremely hardy fish and could handle the effects of Cycling, which I didn't really understand what that meant but no worries I was patient. When I added the rock and was waiting to add my damsels I notice a wierd looking thing running around on the gravel, he looked like a miniture lobster or something like that. I didn't think much of it and figured he just was a stole away from the rocks, along with my six snails and my six lined wrasse (Zina). I later learned that he was a mantis shrimp and could be very hazardest to the fish that I would be keeping. Anyways with no way to catch him I was stuck with him, funny thing is I never saw him ever again? So I research the internet looking for the best way to arrange the rock formation and read up about how to place the rocks carefully on the glass bottom making sure not to crack the glass. Then I was to place the gravel around the rocks and that would make them super secure and the snails and fish wouldn't be able to knock anything over. I also placed some sea shells I had in the original tank many years ago, I bleached them and was very careful to rinse them thoroughly. So off to the store to buy three fish, yellow tailed damsels, and I named them Larry, Curly, and Mo.
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