cold water question

[ScubaSteve]

Originally Posted by rickwaines

nps and azoox, same same, non phtosynthetic corals. Got it.

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.