Hello to all here at MAAST I am hoping to learn a great deal from this community and share my personal experiences as well.

I'm going to be horribly tacky and lazy and copy my log from Nano-Reef.com. I am not a fan of their site and I'm hoping this will be my new home

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Anyhoo...this is my very first foray into the land of marine. I've kept numerous FW tanks for many years but always had that itch to one day try my hand at SW. My boyfriend got me an early Valentine's Day present of a 29g Biocube. I'm delighted with the gift but I suspect ulterior motives were at work too. He recently jumped into the saltwater hobby and I'd been complaining about all his time reading and researching. Rather than change things, he decided to get me hooked as well and it's working

This is all new to me, there is a lot to learn and hopefully my mistakes will be minimal. I welcome any constructive feedback and/or suggestions. Just go easy on me or else I will :tears: or :rant:.

And so the adventure begins...

1/27/08

- New tank! EEEEEeeeee!!!!
- Chose to set-up in the office where I could spend lots of time watching it. The stand is caddy corner to my zebra pleco tank which I also spy on constantly. Zebras are extremely shy creatures.
- Starting off with ~ 30lbs of cured live rock from LFS, live sand, and jugs of their premixed SW.
- Added Bio brand skimmer that sits in the 1st compartment
- Removed bio-balls and replaced with live rock rubble.

2/3/08

- Everything has been running smoothly and so far I've only re-arranged the rocks once, lol. I suspect there will be more arranging as I learn more and see more examples of others set-ups.
- I've spent a great deal of time inspecting every inch of the rock looking for signs of life. Do other newbies stare at their bare rock too? :blush:

To Do's:
- I'd like to set up some type of second powerhead and get a wavemaker thingy. From what I've read, creating more current is good.
- Find timer for lighting...I have 3 sets of lights, actinic, daytime, LED moonlights...so far I'm fine with remember to turn things off and on but I can see a timer making life much easer.
- Re-test water parameters...first test was a bit whacky, SW test kits are way more of a pain than FW kits *grumble*
- Take pics