heres a little breakdown of my latest project- a 24x24x18 cube tank. just last fall i downsized my 110gallon sps reef to a 15gallon nano, keeping alot of my monties and zoanthids but pretty much getting rid of everything else. then last month decided the nano was too small and that i wanted something in between. thats when i decided i wanted to do a cube.

my goals for the tank were that i wanted a mixed reef, and that i really wanted to emphasize simplicity. i dont want corals that are extremely demanding, nor do i want a fully automated tank. you'll find no reactors or controllers or refugiums... just light, flow, sand, rock, and a skimmer.

keeping with the "back to basics" ideology, i built the tank sumpless with with a custom in-tank surface skimmer/bubble reducer box that i built for it. the heater, thermometer, skimmer, return pump, and ato sensor all fit back there.

theres about 1-1.5" sandbed with approximately (i honestly have no idea but guessing) 30pounds of figi liverock.

livestock:
sunset monti
superman monti
rainbow monti
green, purple, and red monti
pink smoothy digi
purple digi, red digi
fuzzy blue acro
light blue staghorn
green trumpet
plating hydnopora
frogspawn
bambam zoos
fire and ice zoos
carlitos alein eyes
tubs blues
purple deaths
stinky pinkys
aogs
blue ricordia florida
orange ricordia florida
sure i missed something......

ocelarris clown
banded shrimp (oldest living inhabitant... had him since i started in 99)
emerald crab
snails

equipment:
sundial 4x24w t5ho fixture
remora skimmmer
ato with reservoir
powerheads.