thanks to all for the warm welcome. i had a 125 set up in va, ran t5s and halides. mainly softies, shrooms, and a bunch of lps (my favs) never had too much interest in sps i guess. i had two caps in there that did well, and a green slimer that was real pretty, but other than that, no sps. i had two maroon clowns (male and female), yellow wrasse, powder blue tang, scopas tang, and two green cromis. tried a manderan once, but those dragonets are hard to deal with in my opinion.
next time, i wanna go smaller, with less fish. i was thinkin about custom building a tank with a drop off shelf. kinda like a knocked over "L" on the bottom to create a natural reef barrier, and separate deeper corals from shallow dwelling corals a little easier.
do any shops around here custom build acrylic tanks?
~Matt