There was just no stoppin that yellowy algae and I could see it encroaching on everything yet nothing was eating it. I was wrong about the snails eating it, they were just stunned I think from possibly ingesting some toxic algae as half the snails I was keeping an eye on hadn't moved in days.
So I took the tank down. I really was going to wait longer and let the rock do its thing in the tubs but it just made me mad that once again the algae was winning. I checked my LR tubs and everything seemed copacetic, ammonia was zero, nitrates were zero and the rock didn't stink like something had died on it :P So I got to work. It took about 6 hours from start to semi-finish and by the time I was done, the tank was about 2/3 full of water but it had to come up to temperature before I put the rock in so I let it sit with a heater in it overnight (the fish and corals are temporarily housed in a 33gallon tank). Today I finished it off, added the rock and am cleaning out the sump (man there was some gross stuff in there) and giving everything a good cleaning with vinegar (my return pump was gross as well). I noticed a few weeks ago that the pressure coming out of my sea swirl (powered by the mag 9 return pump) was practically nothing and couldn't really figure out what was going on without some major dismantling. Today I see that the hose that goes from the seaswirl to the pump has about a foot worth of algae in it and most likely was not only a good source of algae spores going into the tank but plugging it up almost to the point where in a short amount of time it would have been clogged completely. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that problem.
No pics yet, I haven't got the light hood back on the tank and it sort of ruins the ooh ahh effect when you see a dark tank full of rock with a flash rebounding off the glass. Hopefully I'll have a pic up tomorrow :)
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