New guy here just wanting to introduce myself.

Name's Steve . hah.

Anyways my experience is 20L tank with 5" sand bed, HOB coralife skimmer, 2 Koralia 1 PH's and chaeto in a soap dish, open top with DIY 70w MH. Tank was pretty crowded with equipment and water evaporated fast! oh yeah, also ~25# live rock

Stock was 3 dwarf blue legged hermits, 3 turbo snails (one decided to clean my green w/purple rim monti), a mis-barred ocellaris clown that hosted some caulerpa , and a blue-green chromis who swam with the clown.

Coral was, stag horn, pink monti, green w/purple monti, blue tipped stag, crocea clam.

everything was doing healthy, then ike came and i lost power for 2.5 weeks. week 1 everythign was doing fine with a battery operated air pump, around week 1.75 i moved everything to my girlfriends place which had power, didn't lose anything except for a emerald crab.

set up was a 10g barebottom with all the live stock from above in it. shortly sold it due to maintenance issues of a SPS tank with so little volume and having the fish tank not at home so I couldn't watch the parameters everyday.

New tank is going to be a 75g system. closed loop, sump, t5ho maybe with led's for shimmer, 1" sand bed, 60# live rock, sps (with lots of grow out room so there will be no overcrowding), patch reef. not sure on the fish, recommendations? i was thinking yellow tang, 2 ocellaris clowns, maybe 7 chromis. or yellow tang, and wrasses. not sure yet, still doing research.

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thanks for looking!