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somthinfishy20

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It is a 24 gallon nano cube with 72 watts. Currently I have 6 pounds of live rock and 16 pounds of live sand. I want to get the lighting and everything taken care of before i start dropping money on other stuff. I removed the bio balls and ceramic rings from the filter and left the carbon in. The lights run for 6 hours everyday. I would like to keep a variety of corals, soft and hard. I am really interested in montipora and acropora. I also want to drop a clam or two in it. I have kept a reef before but it has been awhile. When I had my previous reef I was easily able to maintain shrooms, polyps, and even some leathers. I have a seaclone 100 skimmer from my previous tank and want to hook it up to my new cube. I found a way to do it but before i do, i want to see if there are any other options so that i dont have to cut part of the hood. I will keep the fish load light, but i want somthing that will eat algae because it is my pet peeve. I would also like to have some frogspawn, bubble, and elgance corals. This is really everything that i want to do with the tank. My budget is fairly unrestricted but i want to keep it as cheap as possible.
That is the basic rundown. Thanks for helping me out, so far you have been one of my best resources.
 
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incysor

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Acropora and clams either require a MH light, or an exteme amount of PC lamps that you'll have to replace every 6-8 months. 72w isn't enough.

Elegance corals have a truly abysmal survival rate.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthrea ... did=310425

Seaclone skimmers usually requre quite a bit of diy in order to work properly.
Most people just throw them away and get something else.

Trying to keep a mixed SPS/LPS reef tank is a difficult endeavor. They have very different flow/lighting/food needs. SPS require a lot of light, and a lot of flow, and a nutrient poor environment. LPS does better with moderate to high light, low to moderate flow, and like more food.

This is difficult, but doable in a large tank. It's much, much more problematic trying to set up different regions where both will do well in a nano.

Your best algae eating fish is gonna be a lawnmower blenny.

It sounds like a challenge, and I'm looking forward to seeing you tackle it.

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somthinfishy20

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Incysor,
Thanks for your help. I think that for this tank I am going to stick with some soft easy stuff just to get back in the groove of things. Then if all is well around December I'm going to grab some halides and do a 20 long. The cube should help me work out all my stupid mistakes and then i can go all out and do some sps and clams.
Thanks again.
 
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