Asylumdown's 275 Tank build

[mseepman]

Hmmm...seems like you have your hands full. It would seem that you should halt everything until you get that nutrient issue under control. Otherwise you keep changing the rules and will never figure out the solution.

looking forward to seeing how it all comes together in a FTS when you're ready.

[fishytime]

aw, cmon Adam.....we all go through those new tank blues....dont be embarrassed....show us those "hairy rocks"

[mseepman]

You know, someone could get the wrong idea when you ask another dude to show you his "hairy rocks".

[asylumdown]

hehe, I may have been exaggerating the problem a little. It was REALLY bad when I came home from hawaii, but what I'm most grossed out by is the sand. I got the caribsea special grade sand, which has grains just big enough for macro algae to take root on it. The rocks are almost totally cleaned of the bad stuff except two minor spots of hair algae and some weird translucent purple macro algae that grew on on of the pieces of walt smith rock, but the sand just looks like garbage. I've got 5 conches in there that are making it better slowly, but I need more I think.

I'm headed to Edmonton for the weekend, but I'll try and take pictures when I get home. LED's and camera sensor's do not get along, I have discovered, I'll have to get some pointers from Levi to figure it out.

The one cool thing that I didn't mention is that about half of the big rock pieces I got from Walt smith were built by what to me looks like a some kind of montipora, and on almost all of them, large patches of the coral that built the rock are still alive. It's not pretty at all, like a tan body with tiny white polyps, but it's pretty freaking cool either way.