lastlight's 225

[Lance]

Nice pieces. I love that shelf rock from BRS. A warning though: I believe there may be considerable amounts of phosphates tied up in that rock. When I used it I had an unbelievable outbreak of hair algae.

[lastlight]

Guys I found a DEAD FISH jammed into the top of one of the shelves haha. Yeah there's gonna be some phosphates! I'm not lighting the tank for at least a month. Just let it run and do weekly water changes.

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Doug your keyboard is broken! It missed an apostrophe and an o there.

Originally Posted by lastlight

Dammit Doug Tony and I are coming down there and tattooing the differences betwen 'to' and 'too' onto your forehead! Wait tho...then you couldn't read it? Maybe we'll just wrestle?

And you finally found that comment? Hahah. Jokes BYE!

Cut me some slack....Im still heavily medicated.....Ive never put the apostrophes in Looks like some massive pieces there....should be fun to work with.

[lastlight]

The rock's DIRTY stuff. My plan is to assemble the structures in the empty tank. Should I fill/drain the tank with cheap tapwater a few times after I'm done to get rid of a BIT of the crap/phosphates in the rock and then do ro/di? I know tapwater has phosphates etc but wouldn't this at least work like diffusion? Rock must have way more an some would leech out...

[fishytime]

You could pressure wash it?

[lastlight]

Is the crap on the outside (which washing would help knock off) my biggest concern or is it what's inside the rocks? I was thinking of at least scrubbing each rock in the sink before I used it...

[Delphinus]

If it were me ... I'd just give the stuff a hosing and deal with it. Especially since the plan is to run a little while still without livestock .. just let it diffuse and cycle out.

Those pieces are massive!! Should be great to see the final 'scape.

Dez, you really need to get that cough checked out! LOL!