does this make me crazy?

I have a 15g column tank in my sons room. It has 20 lbs of both live sand and rock. It came with a 12" T8 bulb and last week I added 3x12" 6watt stunner strips. I am seriously concidering adding a hob eshopps 300gph overflow box and a eshopps sump. Then I would add a skimmer and a bunch more live rock. It would bring my total water volume to around 30 gallons. And about 50 lbs of rock. My main goal is to have a few corals and I figured this would make the water more stable. I am also going to order 2x12" panaroma (19w) fixtures to mix with the stunner strips and ditch the factory T8 bulb. I am doing this because I dont have room for a bigger tank in his room right now. But eventually I will get him a 60g cube tank or something similar and I want to get it started now. Does this seem do able? Or am I completely crazy?

Ok that post isnt very helpful, just completely negative. So if I do alot less rock kdep the skimmer would that be better? What do you reccomend I do? All I want is to add 1 more fish (a goby or blenny) and an anemone + a few beginner corals to make the tank more beautiful. I thought a sump, skimmer and more LR would help but I guess I was wrong. Any actual advise?

Anyone else care to add anything? With 2 of the 19w panaroma leds and 4-6 stunner strips will I have any problems with an anemone of a few corals? Would the added water volume and an oversized skimmer make this easier or is it a waste of time?

Cheesehead said:

I can't really add any input about LEDs, but I use t5hos on my reefs and I can keep pretty much every soft and lps coral.


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Unfortunately my tank only really has room for led's without major work

kasaki89 said:

with the led's you should be fine to have a few mushroom corals, test it out with them first and see how it goes.
if you see that your having a lot of growth and positive stuff from them move onto something like a button polyp's
the nem may give you problems tho, if u wanted a nem your prolly thinking about adding clowns ,
and in my honest opinion let them host a rock of some short, any nice hosting nems get really large. and that's just gonna become a mess -.-

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Thanks for the input. I have one small clownfish in tank. How fast would the nems grow? I will be upgrading this tank in a year or so so if I have to I will wait to add the anemone. What about adding the sump? Any suggestions for that?