Love salt water fishies! I wish I had the time and money to put into it. I have an aquaintance that is really into salt water, he gave me a bunch of beginner and easy books to read.
I don't want to say he deterred me from getting a salt water tank, but he sort of did by just the sheer amount of knowledge he had about everything. I certainly dont know squat about fish tanks, so I figure I'll get a gold fish or two instead LOL.
Also, another thing that seems like such a daunting task is the equipment purchases you have to make to start up. Everything costs so much, and I have no idea what is good, or over priced crap! Just not having any opinion or hear say about certain brands also made me rethink the salt water idea.
Snakes and rats are so much easier!