When I got home from that first trip to a reef shop I felt like I had a mountain to climb, there was so much I needed to know, so many questions and so much I didn't know I didn't know. So I fired up the dial up internet and began to slowly trawl the forums. As in any hobby, once you get into it you begin to take some knowledge for granted and just assume that everyone else knows it too which is why sometimes I think it can be hard to find straight up answers to those initial questions, so that's what this blog post is about. The questions that I had when I first started that when I think about it I often take for granted now.

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