Business has kept me so busy, I have not been able to share my experience with everyone.
Needless to say, I began my BB adventure no better off than any ssb or dsb or any sb tanks I have had. Same prob as usual, lots of algae, dirty tank, dont matter how much flow I had.
Of course, that was the beginning. It was caused by
rock curing, too many fish being added to the system, etc etc.
I am now almost completely finished separating my inventory of fish from my display tank, and will soon be putting corals in place of the fish
Last night, I began part of the aquascaping . I used a 1/4in fiberglass rod, and drilled my rocks with a 1/4in masonry bit that is like 16in long. Fitting the different rocks onto it was like playing tetris but I finally came up with a nice stack...so my very left side of the tank has a beautiful pilar now.
Throuought this week I will continue the aquascaping (who knew it could take this long hahaha), so I hope i can get a full tank shot of it by the weekend.
I still need to fix my **** UV sterilizer (Spanky was right, it somehow has a leak, not sure if its an oring or the actual sleeve is broken, I need to replumb it and add ball valves so next time this happends I can just close the ball valves and isolate the UV unit, bad plumbing on my part this time around
My phosphates are still too high so I'll continue to do 50gal water changes every week until I get them to where they need to be. Most of the problem is I have rocks in my sump. Those will be used for aquascaping and go into the tank, so once they are out of the sump, I can clean up the sump of all the crap that has fallen off the rocks, and sump will be spic and span clean.
I'll try and get some pics up soon.
Gal
