Overflowing.
 

In case anyone was curious, this is what an overflow box looks like after almost 5 years of neglect.

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And this is what it looks like after 4" of feather dusters, 3 inches of detritus and about 5 hours of my life that I will never get back..

http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/...pshmm7hj9l.jpg

I kicked up a poop storm (literally), so decided to do a 50% water change. Snapped some coral out of water shots.

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That is all. Good night.

that is totally nasty man. couldn't even find your drain pipe at first LOL.

What is that brown spaghetti looking stuff

feather dusters.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm.....soba.

Man, when i'm setting up my duplex fuge.... I'm coming over to snag some feather dusters to seed my benthic zone. Thats NUTZ. I'm sure they'll re-populate quick.

Those feather dusters must of polished that water real good before entering the sump. Is that the secret to those amazing corals? Now the new trend, everyone on Canreef is going to start dumping worms in their overflow box.:biggrin:

Next up is purging my sump. It's almost as bad.

If that's the case then I've removed at least 25% of my filtering capacity, frak!

I have often wondered though, how well feather dusters filter out dissolved organics, if at all. And if they do, then surly they must secrete waste as well so they are also dumping in nutrients as well ? Who knows :noidea:

All I know is that looked incredibly ugly :) Are they better looking when they are in water? The only things in my overflow right now are coraline and diatom film...

They definitely got to a point where I became too afraid to venture into my overflow.. That was three years ago. 3 more years on that and my overflow was probably harbouring some interesting things under the various strata of detritus, debris, feather dusters, aiptasia..