[nikkipigtails]

Every time I look at my tank I'm amazed - not only at the diversity of life contained in a tiny 47 gallons, but that I haven't killed anything yet (this is coming from the woman who killed a cactus and, no, I didn't over water it). I was doing normal daily maintenance on my tank this afternoon and noticed that I have huge colonies of coraline algae growing all over the back glass. You may say, "You're just now noticing it?" Most of the back glass is obscured by LR. I have tried to grow coraline algae on my glass ever since we got our first tank 3 years ago so imagine my suprise when I looked around the corner of the tank to see these pretty blooms. It may seem like a nusance to most of you, but to me, it's a good sign of a healthy, balanced tank.

It's difficult to be a female reefer in a place where reefing is dominated by men. I've never seen a woman working at any of our LFS and the fact that the men who work there dismiss me really gets me down sometimes and makes me second guess myself. But today I had that "ah ha" moment where I knew that I'm doing everything right. It makes me even more excited to get our big tank up and running. Tommy has make up class Saturday morning in Pensacola so Mark will be here sometime in the afternoon or Sunday to drill the tank then I can get to plumbing while Tommy's out of town next week.