okay so i decided to completely redo the tank, I bought a 20 gal long (i had a 30 before) and I bought some LR and I dug out my old CPR bakpak and got that together, now my tank looks great, I reorganized everything and took out all the sand( my sand was really gross) and put in fresh new water, this time I plan to stick with water changes and keep everything in line.
oh and just a note about how my tank was before (its alittle embarassing), I got the 30 gallon for free and it was in terrible condition , it had scratches and it was really dirty and jsut a peice of junk. Also when I got it i wanted to put in a sump so I drilled a hole in the bottom of my tank and put in a bulk head, but instead of having a normal overflow i had a pvc pipe lol, it looked really bad, and it was really noisy so i didnt have it running, lol. Also over the last few weeks my coroline algea was so bad and out of control i could barley see the bottom half of my tank, and I never did water changes and it was jsut falling apart. But now i am going to take much better care of everything do my weekly water changes and the main thing is jsut to keep it simple, i dont want a refuge or an overflow to sump or any of that I just want to keep it simple and keep ontop of everything.
