Greg's 75g

[lastlight]

exciting times when those pods start taking off (or appearing at all). it's amazing how long you can sit and watch them when you're in that phase of a build.

i've got hawk eyes for seeing little things in my tank and i have not seen a pod in ages during lights on. the wrasses are masters of the hunt.

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by lastlight

exciting times when those pods start taking off (or appearing at all). it's amazing how long you can sit and watch them when you're in that phase of a build.

i've got hawk eyes for seeing little things in my tank and i have not seen a pod in ages during lights on. the wrasses are masters of the hunt.

I know once we start adding hunters they'll disappear, but it's nice to know there's some food about

[gregzz4]

With any luck, Saturday will be "add more LR to the system" day

I can't add most of the new rock until the wife picks through it to put some pieces in the DT

I may start adding some to the sump as I know which ones I don't want in the DT, but I can't get too carried away yet

Hard to not just do it on my own but I like her opinion

It's been said recently on someones else's build ....
Happy wife ... happy life

[lastlight]

You're going to keep rock in your sump as well then? I used to but wow did it ever collect debris no matter how well I stirred the sump up with flow.

[gregzz4]

Ya, I know it's going to be a big problem, but thanks for the warning. I see myself having to clean out the drain section of the sump weekly for the next year or so ... whoooppeeee

Thing is, I couldn't find any LR worth buying back in Feb.
You'll recall when I found the aiptasia ... that was the rock I bought back then
I cured it for months and, by the time we were ready to fill the tank, all we had was 14# of LR and a bunch of base that we had already scaped. I didn't want to ruin the cured rock with more, uncured, so, well ....

I thought we could wait for the base rock to mature, but now I don't want to do that

I'm seeing I need a lot more LR than we started with and I don't want to ruin our original scape. Plus, I'm not going through the epoxy thing again. That crap messed everything up

So, I'm left with filling the sump for a year or so until the system matures

[gregzz4]

And, to add, I'm going to end up with a whole lot of algae problems now with the leaching from this newer rock

[Enigma]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Hard to not just do it on my own but I like her opinion

It's been said recently on someones else's build ....
Happy wife ... happy life

Your wife appears to have pretty good taste (at least with the scape . . . Which looks great). All of my guy's taste is in his mouth.

You're build, with spouse involvement, is going to turn out much better than mine.

[gregzz4]

Oh don't say that
I'm sure that, once you two make your minds up about your background, you will have an awesome 40 long

But thanks for the encouragement

I only hope it goes well enough regarding the parameters

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Oh don't say that
I'm sure that, once you two make your minds up about your background, you will have an awesome 40 long

Shelley made up her mind, trouble is hubby isn't going along with it -lol

[gregzz4]

Shelley, do you need a little help from us ????
We could always start some kind of riot or something

Honestly, I wish we could show your hubby what it's like with weird backgrounds and such