Here's an update on this, with a photo:
The rubble in the front left corner will eventually go in a chamber in the back along with some other rubble. It is from my home tank and I am using to seed this tank. I also added about a quart of live rock and a good deal of live water. I just added some additional snails to catch up to the algae on it. I'd only had two over the past week.
The cheato is just up front while I work out a light for the rear chamber. (I plan to put the rubble in the bottom of the middle chamber, then cheato on the top. I thinking of trying to rig up a two led light for the cheato from the moonlight kits from rapidled.com (using white led's rather than blue, of course).
The biggest problem is heat. Our office is not air conditioned on the weekend. I did some research and am experimenting with running it as a warmer water reef. Essentially, I figure it will be better to keep it warmer than to let the temperature go up and down. So, It is currently running at about 84 degrees. Fortunately, the past weekends have been cooler. I'll be building a hood insert for the weekends that will raise the lights enough to have a fan blow across it for cooling on the weekends. We'll see how that works. However, if anyone has a small chiller for around $100, I'd be interested.
So far, I've got a royal gramma, several frags I picked up at frag fest, along with a small clean up crew. So far, they seem happy. I'm hoping to put in a goby/shrimp combo, and probably one other fish, but I'm still researching them for how they do at higher temperatures.
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