I've got a 30 gallon with a 15 gallon fuge which are both bare bottom. The fuge is crammed with leftover baserock and chaetomorpha for nitrate export. I get tons of crude settling out in my fuge which gets siphoned out whenever I do a water change (once every 2-3 weeks).
Everything is running quite well, though there's no fish in there yet. I have pods everywhere, my xenia has grown and is in the process of splitting into 3, chaeto has grown from a little golfball sized bunch to something to measures roughly 12"x12" and is about 1-2" deep, nitrates are at zero. The main tank is lighted with 192watts of PC lights (1x96watt 10000k, 1xactinic), and the fuge is lighted by a 55watt PC light at 6400k. The main tank lights may be upgraded to MH sometime in the future... I'm still looking into that.
-Richer
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