reasonable build and fish list?

[hotrodolds]

I had to break down my 90 due to a move across the country. Had good success and overall the 90 mixed was looking great.

With that said my clowns are currently in foster care with a friend and I'd like to get custody back but also wanted to try something new and seahorse have been on the shortlist for a while. No room for a 4' tank here so I was thinking a cube tank.

Equipment, most I own already

60 24" cube
20g sump
Small chiller ( house is always 74-75)
Single 250 mh
Pair of k1 powerheads
Carbon/gfo reactor

Rock will be what is now base rock, ill buy a piece or two

Few normal shroom varieties
Seafan or gorg of some sort
Green star polyps

Yellow watchmen/pistol shrimp
My pair of occ clowns
Possibly a mandarine when things are established if there is and abundance of pods

I've been looking at a pair of erectus for horses.

So with that tank size, keeping the temps down, sting freecorals & hitches, I know the clowns are a risk but is it more minimal?

 

[rayjay]

If that 250 mh is a 250 metal halide then you will have to provide shade for the seahorses as it is too much light for them for all day lighting.
IMO, the clowns are a definite no-no, especially if they have already matured.
It takes a clownfish with just the right personality, and seahorses that can be more tolerant of other tank mates for it to work, and the odds are definitely against getting the right combination. While most clownfish are rated a four, the worst level, the percula is rated a three, and mine are continually drawing blood when I put my hands in the non seahorse tanks to service them.
The seahorses will quickly decimate the pod population of any pod forms they have an interest in, and that may be the ones the mandarin is after also.

 

[hotrodolds]

If that 250 mh is a 250 metal halide then you will have to provide shade for the seahorses as it is too much light for them for all day lighting.
IMO, the clowns are a definite no-no, especially if they have already matured.
It takes a clownfish with just the right personality, and seahorses that can be more tolerant of other tank mates for it to work, and the odds are definitely against getting the right combination. While most clownfish are rated a four, the worst level, the percula is rated a three, and mine are continually drawing blood when I put my hands in the non seahorse tanks to service them.
The seahorses will quickly decimate the pod population of any pod forms they have an interest in, and that may be the ones the mandarin is after also.

I'm not set on the mandarin at all. It was more an after thought of "if" the pod population was looking especially abundant.

I didn't know the seahorses were light sensitive. I've got adjustable lumatek ballasts. I could crank it back to 150 or 175. That would probably help mitigate heat too. Just concerned about light penetration on a 24" tank. Though I'm not planning on any real light demanding stuff I'd like the option of putting a trachy on the sand bed.

My two clowns are docile towards fish and i've never seen either go at any fish but one has a definite attitude against human hands in the tank.