I honestly wanna see that build!!!!!Yeah this is the conclusion I came to as well. That's what the whole barrel discussion was about, I was thinking of a cheap setup to turn a bunch of concrete/porous rock into liverock in an outside barrel, though I'd probably be better off getting something like a bead filter.
I'm gonna invest in building an algae turf scrubber of some sort, just don't know what it will be like. Would be cool if I could make a pressurized box that allowed water to flow up and down several layers of algae suroounded by lots and lots of light and lots and lots of reflective surfaces. I'll be maily relying on it, and (if that's not enough) a bead filter and a protein skimmer as back up. And a good well armored cuc will help as well.
With what I am planning I might actually be going way overkill.