Needless to day, I am ecstatic. My 480g tank arrived today. The sumps and equipment are still outstanding, but at least the hard work of bringing that tank to its current location is over (and fortunately Steven and his team at Exotic Aquariums did all the physical work).

New 480g FOWLR

Once again I believe I am the first person in South Africa to own these fine products:

1. Sonnet Temp eSATA ExpressCard/34
2. LaCie d2 Quadra

Eat your heart out! South Africa's importers should only begin receiving stock in a couple months' time.

I have two brilliant little books on Marine Invertebrates and Marine Fish - one by Shimek, the other by Scott W. Michael. Now usually advise is something you take with a grain of salt since in the reef hobby, the only two certainties are

"The faster you go the worse things will get"

and

I have been playing a bit with my microscope and under 4x, 10x and 40x objectives I managed to capture these pictures of various macro algae. Try to identify them... (PS Go to my reef gallery for the answers)

(From CodeSOD: The Pyramid of Error)

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