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 :mrgreen: but I like her opinion

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

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.

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

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

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. :lol:

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 :wink:

But thanks for the encouragement :mrgreen:

I only hope it goes well enough regarding the parameters :surprise:

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

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

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

The new LR is leaching too much NO3 and PO4 to go in the DT system now
Looks like I'll have to do some WCs and be patient while it cooks some more :sad:

On the plus side, the snails and herms are doing a nice job of keeping the DT fairly clean

I've been messing with the MP10 settings and placement and am happy so far with the detritus situation

I have decided that if he keeps working weekends (flooring contractor) that I am going to paint the tank when he's at work.

I think it a bit unwise that he leave us (our three-year-old and myself) to our own devices on a weekend.

I've purchased the paint already. He hasn't noticed it sitting there, yet.

Where did you place the MP10s? I'm very interested in their placement, as I'm undecided over using them. Your tank is 12 inches longer and 5 inches taller, so if they work for you they should work for us.