i did some thing simaler to that with this last tank i just setup. i had a few utah rocks in my sump. put them in the tank with 2 cups of live sand to seed the utah sand i put in the tank. let it run for a couple of days to clear the water and put corals in. just some xeina, zoo's, encrusting gargonins. its been running for about 3 weeks has tons of pods and misys shrimp. i'm using natural sun light with 4 40 watt NO's.