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Originally Posted by SeaSerpant
would i be able to have a fish only tank then add live rock then add corals after a period of a few years?
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If you're talking about in your 60 then yes. In a nano, pretty much no. Live rock acts like a filter and hosts a ton of beneficial bacteria/etc. used to break down waste products expelled from the fish. So you'd end up having to filter/skim or somehow otherwise regulate and purify the water in your nano w/o any sort of liverock. It would end up costing you a lot of money upfront to do that, especially considering you say you'd eventually want liverock anyway.
I'm not sure if you're considering this based on your estimated costs, but I will tell you outright that nanos are not cheap. Since you seem pretty undecided on what you want, I would sit down and make a list and say I would like this, this and this in 2-3 years and then compare that to the price figure you have in mind and see where you stand.
Also I wanted to add that if you really have a 60 gal and presumably the stand/some misc. equipment to go with it, it's definitely a no brainer to go that route regardless of what you do. If you get a tank set up, every reefer will tell you that you're always, always, always going to want more room.