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by Holle Abee
Think of all the divers who go to such lengths to visit saltwater reefs for a view of the amazing sea life that inhabits the area. Now imagine that you can have a little corner of that magic in your own home. With a saltwater reef tank, you can have the mezmerizing tranquility and the brilliant natural beauty of a tropical sea, all vividly displayed in an aquarium.
A reef tank isn’t just a regular saltwater aquarium. The key word is “reef.” The main focus of the tank is the soft or hard corals. Colorful fish, sea stars, eels, anemones, urchins, shrimp, and sea horses can certainly be added, but everything should revolve around the coral itself.
As a reminder to those of you that didn’t know, we will be having scheduled downtime tonight. This will start Tuesday February 26th, 2008 from 9:00PM CST to 2:00AM CST. During this time, Reef Builders will not be available. As such, the forums, gallery, marketplace will be closed until the entire site is back up and running smoothly. We do maintenance like this to insure 100% uptime to all of our members.
It has been a sad week for my local reef club. A week ago, one of our members had a fire at his house. The fire did major damage to the house and killed the family cat. There is now a 10′ hole in the first floor above where the fire was and the backside of the house is severely burned. The cause has been pinpointed to his fish room.
The fire marshal is thinking that it may be because he had multiple power strips plugged into a single outlet, but the reason has yet to be determined. It may have been from some other area in the fish room, but the fire has been determined to have started in the fish room. Let this be a reminder to everyone that this can be a dangerous hobby. This fire happened to someone that has been keeping reef tanks for years and just built a new house 2 years ago with a built in-wall 180gal, primarily SPS reef tank. Behind his tank, he had a fish room that was built specifically for his fish tanks. He went through a ton of planning while designing his house to make sure that something like this would never happen. Unfortunately, it did.
Here are a few tips on what ALL fish tanks should have:
Well folks, your going to get the chance to rate your experience level. This isn’t just any experience level, we are taking reefs here, not the fish only varieties either. Your going to have three choices in front of you Beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert. There is of course a fifth option, which is none of the above OR know it all. Thankfully there isn’t anyone on Earth that knows everything there is to know about keeping your reef creatures happy, granted some can get awfully close. If you haven’t already signed up to RB, your going to need to in order to vote, don’t worry, we send you a minimum of 5 hard drives full of spam every day, we also have the weekly option if that suits you better.
Our very popular blog has been moved to the home page of Reef Builders. This was from several of you who suggested that we do that. It was getting more and more popular every day, thus the reason for the move. We hope all of you enjoy and if you have anything to say about it you can always reply in comments.
Just a quick note that Reef Builders magazine is under construction. You can still go there and read some articles however some are not online. We are upgrading our software to fully support the growth RB has been getting.
Tony, who is from Rhode Island was denied a job at Rumford Pets, a local fish store in the Rhode Island area. He went and applied and updated his personal blog that said: “So I finally heard back about the LFS job yesterday. I was told ‘we hired someone with more experience and also we can’t use you because your a disabled vet‘”.
This isn’t really reef related. But we really can’t help ourselves when it is NFL playoff time! Who is everyone going for in the NFL Playoffs? There is Patriots vs Jaguars, Chargers vs Colts, Packers vs Seahawks, and Giants vs Cowboys. Who do you think will win?
