[reefburnaby]

Hi,

For a pure softy tank, 55W PC on a 10G should be fine...most softies should be fine except for specialty corals like the Fuji Yellow Leather. A good reflector should help improve lighting.

As for additives...no need for them. Your best bet is to do water changes to replenish the trace elements (like iodine). I would say....10% water changes per week or 1 Gal per week. And ditto for Salifert.

As for your sand bed...IMHO I would get rid of the crush coral. Over the long term, it causes problems with food particles getting stuck in the sandbed. Your best bet is to buy some fine calcium based sand from LFS (like J&L). It is expensive and a lot of work, but it will save you nitrate and algae headaches in the future. It should be as fine as domolite...the stuff you put on your lawn to lime it.

We are having a group meeting this month in Coquitlam and Surrey. Maybe you can bounce some of your questions to our local experts and see what they have to say.

- Victor.