Soft corals in a Mantis tank

[villious]

Hello all. I'm currently in the process of setting up a 14 gallon Oceanic Nano Cube for a n. wennerae manits only tank. I took out the bio balls and will use the liverock for filtration. Since the tank is small and enclosed I wont have a protien skimmer on it (bad mistake?).

I want to put a few soft corals in it just to add to the astetic value of the tank. The lights that come with the Nano Cube seem ok for softies. I dont want to leave the light on all day due to heating up the tank. What would be good choices for soft corals that dont need a LOT of light? Xienia, muchrooms, green star polyps, other polyps?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks so much!!!!!

Villious

 

[gh0st]

As long as your feedings for the mantis do not foul the water quality, you should be fine.

I've got a little 3.5 gal with a mantis and a couple of shrooms, polyps, and a leather, and everything is ok as long as I keep up on water changes, and all I have for filtration is the in tank live rock and a little hang on the back power filter, a whisper junior or some such.

 

[onthecraperpimp]

just about any softies and some LPS will do fine in your tank.