I’ll get back to the particulars of my tank in upcoming posts, but for now I’d like to talk about something a little different.  I’m a member of several online saltwater/reef communities, some quite large and some that are pretty small.  Most of the extremely large ones I don’t spend much time at except to search for specific information when I’m doing research.  There are two forums, however, that I frequent at least daily; one relatively small one called salt-city.org because it’s local to me, and the other is TheReefTank.  I really enjoy The Reef Tank because it’s big enough to stay active with lots of new info and posts, but still has a true community feeling.  But, what this post is really about is The Reef Tanks new community blog (http://www.thereeftank.com/blog.html).  I got involved with the project when I was asked by Ava, the new head of community blog affairs (OK I made the title up, but it sounds good) if I would be interested in contributing a few articles.  I gladly accepted and she started feeding me topics they would like to see addressed.  The first article I wrote was on aquascaping and was actually a reciprocal post on guitarfish.org, a really cool planted aquarium website (article can be found here).  My second article is on choosing a heater and was just posted today (that article can be found here).   I hope you take the time to visit The Reef Tank and it’s community blog, there is a wealth of great information to be found there.

Happy Reefing!