Finally, I found a somewhat local forum...
Anyway, I'm pretty new to salt water, but have been keeping freshwater tanks for years, including a 300 gallon African tank that has been up almost 10 years.
Its been up for about a month and change, and just added my first bit of something alive (A whopping 12 hermits and 10 snails.. LOL)
Hopefully this will evolve in to a reef tank over the next year or so... at the moment I'm looking forward to getting my first fish in to quarantine in the next couple weeks (and getting a larger clean up crew).
I'm sure I'll have lots of annoying newbie questions soon enough.
Here is a couple pics of where I'm at now..
Tank stats... 210 gallons, 100 gallon sump (about 3/4 full) 1/3 of which is a fuge.. Berlin XL (500 gal. rated) skimmer... not the best, but hey it only cost me a case of beer.
New lighting should be here this week, what I have is basically pieced together from an old Iguana tank w/ new bulbs.