New tank, what would you do?

[ZLogic]

TL:DR - What would you add to a 60g cube that already has a a YWG/pistol, bicolor blenny, and pompom crabs? Are 2 AI Primes enough for softies and LPS?

Pics are new Elos60g and old Biocube32

Hi there! Quiet lurker here and I'm at a bit of a crossroads. I had a Biocube32 that was going really strong for a couple years before being completely overtaken by aiptasia. It wiped out almost all coral and I got to the point of a full restart. I cleaned it all out, and started over and a month in it sprung a drip on a seam. I had a 40b I'm planning for a vertical vivarium build so I threw everything I had in there not knowing where to go next. Well my LFS had put one of their display tanks for sale and my wife told me to call it a gift.

It's an Elos 60 gallon and came with a 20g Aquarium Master sump, bubble magus skimmer, sicce 3.0 return, and 2 icecap 2k gyres with the icecap controller for $1000. I have an ai prime16 from the Biocube and a second one on currently on the way and it currently houses a YWG, his pistol partner, a bicolor blenny, and a pompom crab that are all refugees from the aiptasia-pocalypse.

Purpose of the post is to ask 2 questions
A. Are two AI16's enough for this tank? Just softies and LPS.
B. What livestock would you add? No clowns, wife says everyone gets Nemo's and to do something different. I'm going to add 2-3 more pom pom crabs, but other than that, I don't know what to add.

 

[Idech]

I like having bright yellow fish, I think they’re the most vibrant color for a reef tank. So maybe a yellow wrasse. They’re nice fish and will eat some of your bristle worms.

 

[Tahoe61]

Coral Beauty or a Dwarf Angel like a Cherub, Yellow Damsels. One of the nicer Dottyback types. Possum Wrasse or Pink Lined. Canary Blenny.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

2 AI Primes would be very expensive and disappointing, corals might survive but not thrive. And there are lots of soft and lps corals which do like higher light. I suggest a 200watt nicrew would be more efficient than 2 AI's and less expensive, and will grow anything you want.

 

[ZLogic]

2 AI Primes would be very expensive and disappointing, corals might survive but not thrive. And there are lots of soft and lps corals which do like higher light. I suggest a 200watt nicrew would be more efficient than 2 AI's and less expensive, and will grow anything

Heck ya I'll look into that. I already had one prime and was thinking I could just add another, especially considering the control from the app. AI's app is really top notch imo

 

[ZLogic]

2 AI Primes would be very expensive and disappointing, corals might survive but not thrive. And there are lots of soft and lps corals which do like higher light. I suggest a 200watt nicrew would be more efficient than 2 AI's and less expensive, and will grow anything you want.

Would one of these work or would it be better to get two? Thinking of coverage, the tank is 39"x22"x22" which after looking at it, makes the tank an 80g, not a 60g like I originally posted.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/B0DBHFBHQ2/ref=mw_dp_cr