Ok, thanks you guys. I haven't seen the skimmer produce anything at all for days but then again I just put fish in there recently. I also recently added about 5 heaping tablespoons of activated carbon. Anybody have any recommendations for a good skimmer for a 55 gallon?

The skimmer did produce stuff when I put my new live rock in the tank before I put the fish in there but you could smell stuff rotting off of the new rock.

I think it is strange that the cyano is only on the old rock and nowhere else.

I started to spot feed the nessarius because I am very careful about how much I feed my fish. I try not to let any hit the bottom and the stuff that does make it to the bottom gets eaten by the cleaner wrasse (really cool to watch it "hunt"). I have seen two different things written about nessarius. Some places said they do not eat deturitus and only eat carrior, other places say both. I didn't see them come out of the sand for 2 days and when I put in a piece of shrimp they came out quickly.

As for hair algae, it doesn't bother me one bit, I actually find it kind of cool, as does my algae blenny :lol Hair algae reminds me of home, all the lakes and ponds there were full of moss.

I will buy a few hermit crabs (thinking around 3 or 4). I read they can be bad for snails in the tank, especially the blue legs. I will add some shells too to calm their house hunting needs.