Exactly what I've been doing. And this morning I could hear the trickle of water down my emergency, so I know the main is getting worse. Maybe I'll actually do it today...

The long weekend coming up would be a good time. I thought cleaning out my overflow would be an hour chore. Ended up spending 3 hours on it. I kept clogging the pipes with that mess and had to pull out my auger to clear out the pipe. Also made a big mess outside the tank I had to clean up :facepalm: Maybe yours won't be as bad as mine. Good luck! :lol:

Haha darn, I was going to ask how you didn’t have a huge mess… but sounds like you did lol. I have the bean style drains as well. I’m going to have to pull the pipes and give it a good clean, and of course the tank is against a wall.

Aren't most tanks against a wall? :lol: But ya, I hear ya. It was really awkward to get back there since the overflow is literally inches from the wall. I tried so hard not to make a huge mess but ended up with one anyway. What I ended up doing was taping up a huge sheet of painters poly wrap plastic on the wall and under the overflow around the tank. That helped a lot. Getting up there was awkward too. I'm not a tall person so balancing on a combination of step stools and barstools was interesting. Hopefully I'm good for another 5-10 years :lol:

Right on! I like the painters plastic idea, makes sense to minimize the wall mess haha. I am going to give it a go as well.

Took advantage of some awesome weekend sales this past weekend.

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Nice pieces and good variety. Envious of the amount of corals being sold in Calgary compared to Edmonton.

Hey, what's that in the back? Looks suspicious.

That's my flame angel. He's definitely sketchy.

Ok fine. After a bit of an hiatus from collecting I thought I’d take up your suggestion to do the sticks again. Wish me luck! I feel like I’m new to this :lol:

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