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[Delphinus]

A considerable improvement on the 'scaping. Good work! I'm a big fan of swim through's, caves and ravines. So while I hated your old look your new look is awesome. Ooops, I mean, your old look was fine.

What are you using to test ammonia? I would almost just throw that test kit right out. Don't bother testing ammonia, test nitrite. When you get a zero nitrite reading, your initial cycle is done and your ammonia is zero. I've noticed with a lot of ammonia test kits that I'd get a nominal nonzero reading anytime I tried it, unless it was a FW tank. I don't trust ammonia testkits (even ones that say SW) at all.

[lastlight]

Thanks guys. I think I have the same issue with aquascaping I do with graphic design. I can work on it till I'm blue in the face and convince myself it's awesome. The real test comes when I wake up and look at it in the morning. I woke up today and dig it hard. Thank god...I'm done mucking about with rocks!

Tony the test kit is Salifert as are all the kits I purchased. If RC had nitrite trust me I would have bought it. I'm going to track down one today and see what that tells me thanks.

[Lance]

Aaaaaah! Much better Brett.

[xtreme]

I agree with the other guys, the new 'scape looks awesome.

I have a salifert NO2 test kit that I don't really have a use for anymore, its yours if you want it. Best before date on it is 10/09 though, not sure if a couple weeks past would make much of a difference?

[lastlight]

Dammit guys. If you didn't dig the old rocks you should have told me! The rocks tricked me into thinking they were done prematurely =)

Thanks xtreme you have pm!

[Delphinus]

They weren't BAD before, they just had an Ikea Bükjelv sort of look to them. Now they have a "Brêt's Bjæd Æss Rjockwerk" (say it out loud if I'm being too obtuse)

[lastlight]

Haha thanks man. But dude...just how hard HAVE you been coding?

[TheMikey]

I dunno. It's a bit facetious, I think, to come out and tell someone that the aquascape looks bad. I don't think there's much 'scapes out there that are bad, just some people have different tastes

Besides, we've all been following this build so long that we wanted to love your aquascape. Kinda like when you finished watching Star Wars: Phantom Menace the first time and trying to convince yourself you loved it for the sheer fact that it was Star Wars. It's hard to admit that it wasn't very good...

I was also expecting you to wave your magic wand and make it look incredible - like everything else you've done in this build. And look! You did!

In summary: new aquascape rocks! now, delete those old pictures and let us never speak of it again >>

[lastlight]

If my rocks in any way draw parallels to Jar Jar...well there's gonna be fisticuffs haha. I think you're right we best never speak of this again lol.

I think the problem is we try and make our tanks look good before there is coral in them. A real reef is often a pretty boring boulder or two underneath all the splendor isn't it?

[Skimmerking]

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