[grinch]

Guilty as charged. My Christmas gift was an 8 gallon Oceanic Biocube. Great!! Until I learned more. It is in my office, which led to some basic problems, one being no control over room temps. Also, no attention over weekends. These combined with great difficulty in keeping water quality high, have led to some very expensive lessons. In all fairness, my LFS owner told me he only will sell to persons he feels have an understanding of the marine aquarium. In retrospect, a larger volume would be better, and the "plug and play" should be renamed the "plug and PRAY"!! My most recent probelms are overheating (been through 2 heaters already) and nitrate spike in a "cycled tank that has been running for 4 mos. Oh well, good thing it is an obsession!! Otherwise I would have given up and put frogs in the thing.