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Well i have a 75gallon already. things got put on hold since i came to school in texas. so ive been reading alot on forums and such. and since the first article i read about plywood tanks i have been INFATUATED. just the thought of making a bigger tank. But at the same time i havent started my 75 so i dont quite know what to expect. building the thing is not a problem. Right now im just thinking 6feet long, 3 feet wide, 30inches deep. but I'm wondering if a new guy to reefing should even be considering ...

She's really taking up a lot of space lately. I may have to pull some LR out of the tank. This was taken earlier in the day before she engorged herself. It's a pretty creature, but it leaves little room for other stuff. The Capricornis to the left is almost a goner due to her sting.

Today I drove over to Fish2morow, a fish store in Fort Worth about 30 minutes away with good traffic. As I walked around his beautiful store checking out the choice corals and fish, I started noticing little things. It didn't take long for me to run out to the car, grab my Nikon D90, 105mm Macro lens and a tripod to get a few of these shots.

This first one is a Porcelain Crab in a Rock Anemone. These anemones are very sticky, so I was pretty surprised to see this crab being able ...

As most of you know, after adding a sump to my existing tank, my only SPS is dying, and now my frogspawn is looking very unhappy. Someone just told me that I should have let my PVC glue joints cure for 48 hours before adding them to the system. Since I had to make several of the joints in place, I only gave them a couple hours. Could that be what's poisoning my corals?

So I'm in the process of building my stands for my 90 and 50 that will come together, and I decided to bring the frame for the 90 into the living room to check level in it's final spot. Turns out I needed to put a little bit of a shim under a corner to keep it from rocking about a sixteenth to an eighth of an inch, so I thought I'd glue it under there before taking it back out to the garage. Well, the gorilla glue had some dried glue in the tip and I just couldn't get it out. So what do I do? ...