Too hard for First Arduino Project? Aquarium Monitor

AWOL:
All doable and feasible, but ask yourself: do you want to trust your fish to your programming skills?

Haha my girlfriend wasn't even crazy about my idea to timer PWM our aquariums LED light, let alone control the living conditions of a few hundred dollars worth of fish...

Personally I'd say doable but not a great first project. But it may depend on your other experience.