I guess since its a mess ill start a diary. im going to pull it around it starts here

what is a mess?

 

doesnt look like to much of a mess to me, mine looked like that then I added 4 mexican turbos, a big turbo(forget its name, black and white shell), two emrald crabs, two electric blue hermits, 24 dwarf blue legs, 5 jumbo ceriths, and 10 astreas...they are cleaning it up fairly quick...not quick enough that they will run out of food soon, but a good CUC will clean the grean and brown algae up, I even had a little red slime and they are taking that out too, theres some coraline under the stuff they are easting too, looks better everyday....I got my stuff from liveaquaria.com if you order 80 bucks or more from the BYO CUC stuff they ship it for free...

 

That's a nice website. I like big photos. Websites trying to sale livestock and things with tiny photos get the boot from me.

 

yeah, everything arrived ok, the ceriths bag was leaking though and almost empty, but they were overnited(10 bucks extra) the free ship is for next day air...but the bags were in another bag so I had the water they were in and used a bag I had here to acclimate them, I lost a couple bluelegs(i think in fights cause they wernt in the shells in the morning, and one astrea isnt looking so hot, the ceriths are all very active at night along with everything else...the mythrax crabs are my new favorite inverts, fun to watch them work...

 

Well I have the alge somewhat under control and have decided to make some changes with the live rock. I decided since Its raining today and I cant work I am going to do some aquascaping! Here it is

 

Looks sweet to me...

 

The rocks were stacked before and kind of loose so I got the idea to go to home depot get some pvc and make the rainbow look with it going all the way over and using plastic ties to hold it together. I think it mad a big difference looks wise. I did remove about 50 lbs of base rock and did happen to pull out a handfull of bristle worms! and happened to touch one ouch btw! they are not nice I thougt I did not have any in there so I went at it bare handed until then! So it was an exciting day all and all.

 

looks good