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To: Graystone who wrote (65945)	11/29/2004 8:41:49 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

I would recommend a minimum of 55 gallons to begin with in a salt tank. But there are a lot of folks now putting together "nanotanks" of 15 gallons or so. I can only imagine that they do a lot of water changes. There are threads on nanos at Reef Central. I think Eclipse is marketing a nice little nano setup. You ought to start by setting up your tank now, and running it to let it cycle. No matter what size you begin with, you can always use the 'live sand' that you will create. If you decide to go with a larger tank your initial setup could be a nice refugium/plenum or quarantine tank. Lighting may be your biggest capital expense. I run power compacts on the freshwater plant tank, and T-8s on a small indoor salt tank. Neither puts out the heat that metal halides do, so a chiller isn't necessary, but then neither have the brightness of metal halide.