Hi All
My name is Andrew and I found your site from another BB. I have seen Doug post there several times. My girlfriend and I are in the process of building a reef tank from her old fish only. She had kept fish only for 9 years before having a major breakdown. I went with her to the LFS and got hooked on reef systems(no money for anything else)
. After she bought some more fish, I talked her into adding live rock. We have a 55 gallon tank with 25 gallon sump. We are adding between 5 and ten lbs every two weeks(with water change)and removing 5 bioballs every time. Now we are up to 25lbs. As far as fish and inverts (she still wants some fish) we have a pajama cardinal(who may be finding a new home soon since he has developed a taste for red legged reef hermits, he ate 2 in 2 days after having them for a month, he is the only survivor of the fish only breakdown), 2 bar gobies (1 large 1 small and are inseperable), 2 neon gobies, 1
blood red shrimp, 1 arrow crab, 2
feather dusters, 1 purple tip aneomne, 1 brittle star(pink) and 1 bristle star ( who we suspect is getting eaten by the cardinal)
, and a host of live rock creatures( a bunch of crabs that we are weeding out slowly). Boy its getting crazy in there
. So after reading a couple of books, going to 4 different LFS, and asking you guys on BBs, I have decided I still know next to nothing.
. I had a FO for 5 years that was taken down and sold last spring when I moved. This is definately a great board and it is even better seeing the number of members and traffic growing so quickly lately. 
