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Originally Posted by rickwaines
nps and azoox, same same, non phtosynthetic corals. Got it.
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Right on dude! Ya, sorry... when you nerd out over stuff it's easy to get lost in the acronyms. My bad. I mentioned Azoox because there is a forum (elsewhere) dedicated to them. They have some techniques for feeding and subsequent nutrient removal that I think would work well in a cold water tank.
But yes, same same.
Dude, this is an awesome project. Do it! I think you could get away with whatever amount of light coming in, though darker would better emulate a deep habitat (where the coolest cold water stuff is found.... ugh, horrible unintended pun. Sorry). Like I said, the more you keep nutrients down like you would in a warm reef tank, the more you'll keep the algae down.
Personally I'd vote for an enclosure around the tank but if you are doing it outdoors a wide and shallow "tide pool" type tank would be pretty snazzy. You'd need some way to cut the intensity of the sun in the summer though.