[LaurentSeattle]

Day 30 - Friday July 27th

Thanks everyone for continuous advice.

Here is now my plan for tomorrow:

- Clean the glass

- Remove algae that has grown on the back side. Let it be taken by the mechanical filtration system.

- Clean the filters as soon as the water clears.

- Remove algae by hand as much as I can from the bigger rocks.

- Remove the smaller top and medium layer rocks from the tank and clean them - with a tooth brush? Put them back in.

- Clean again mechanical filters after the sandstorm is gone.

- Make yet another big water change, siphooning out as much crap as I can during the process.

Phewww... I wanted a lot maintenance tank...

Status as of tonight:

- Pods! Finally some pods!!!

- Nitrites still non-zero but very close to the green I got when testing RO/DI water a while ago.

- Limited algae growth, compared to previous days, certainly due to the fact that lights were off all day.

- All snails quite active.