Have I Become A Blogger? I've been thinking about starting a blog since I started this hobby of building a reef tank. I want to share the lessons I'm learning as a newbie, because if there's anything I've learned in this short time, it's that to be successful you've got to do your research, and there's just SO much information out there. The best resources I've found are other peoples websites and all the forums on this topic. A book will often give you only one theory on how to do something, but learning from lots of different people's successes and failures is what's worked for me so far.

I also wanted a place to share this hobby of mine with my family, so they can see the progress of my tank, and my mom will stop asking, 'WHEN are you getting fish?!?'. There's so much more to a reef tank than fish, so here's my forum to explain why that new brain coral is just as exciting as a 'Nemo' fish would be.

I want to catch myself up to where I am today, so I'm going to trace my steps back from the beginning (not so long ago, just this summer), when my husband Lawrence gave me a 5 gallon fish tank for my birthday, thinking that would satisfy my itch for a fish tank. Little did he know that 5 gallon supposedly-goldfish tank would end up a 50 gallon starter reef tank!  ¶ 3:50 PM