What are your plan for lighting? I acclimated my corals by lengthening the schedule each day for about a week. In this size tank I found that 20k mh is perfect but if you were going to try and run a 10k, I would suggest acclimating very slowly. I switched to a 10k and almost killed a couple corals and bleached a monti caps bone white. 10k is a lot more par than 20k...
As for bioload, a clown goby works great in this tank and I would say that this two inch mantis puts a much heavier strain on the filtration capacity than a clown goby would. Back when this tank was a more peaceful place, I had a yellow clown goby, three sexy shrimp, and a porcelain(sp) anemone crab. This tank is a great place to showcase small, cool, animals like those!
Cheers,
- Chad
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