[thesauce]

Looks great Drew! I also think that your new hitchhikers are sponges considering the fast growth rate. As far as the CC, I think the jury is out on this one. Both finer grain sand and crushed coral have thier benefits and drawbacks, but CC is the way to go imo. Sorry it was such a pain to remove it. Some of the benefits of CC: better environment for microfauna, better circulation providing some water turnover to more anaroebic regions where most of your beneficial bacteria colonies reside (more efficient biological filtration). Microfauna living in the substrate will also process much of the organic material that gets trapped beneath the surface.