i'm starting a new nano reef-30L, with two clowns 2 cleaner shrimp, anemone, feather dusters and other small corals. will cycling the tank with a 150l/hour hang on filter for biological and a 300/hour hang on with protein skimmer and mechanical filtration be suffcient?

i have been fish keeping for 12 years but this is my first marine.

What is the brand/model of the Filter and skimmer you are planning to use?

For a filter I would suggest something comparable to the Hagen Aqua-Clear 30. Skimmers though can be a hotly debated subject. There are a few you could use. I have a tendency to favor the Sea Clone 90 for a small tank when money is an issue and I am not planning to up-grade in tank size any time soon. But I do like the Ramora skimmers too and of course in sump applications you cant go wrong with a Euroreef model on larger tanks if I use a skimmer.

If you can give a little more info/details I can make a little more less vauge suggestion...

I like the prizm my self my real worry is that anemone and what kind of lighting are you can use. The only thing about anemonies is they are very unforgiving. just ask ritz.

thanks for the replies. both my filter are the Hagen style filters. its not a protein skimmer i found its more of a surface skimmer taking debris and fatty deposits from the surface directly into the filtering media. my LFS says the filters are fine as i have 18 pounds of live rock in 26L of water and only putting 2 small fish and an anemone(which of course will be added after the fish once they are THRIVING).

I just wanted everyone's opinions as I like re-affirmation of something i am doing.

I think our definition of a protien skimmer and your definition of a protien skimmer are two different thinks. A protien skimmer takes tank water just like any other filter would but it mixes it with a homogenoeus mixture of micro bubbles smaller than a grain of sand and dissolved protien in the water attach to the surface of the bubbles when ever these bubbles reach the top of the neck they pop leaving only the protien and as more protien gets build up it gets push up into a collection cup were it can be dispose of later. I will tank a picture of what it looks like. And generally you dont want to run the protien skimmer during the time that you tank is cycling but after that you can run it.