Monitor might not be the best word to use in the context of this clambake . <| sep |> I nominated it for what it ' s worth . One of my all time favorite games for sure . <| sep |> The setup is pretty straightforward . I had been itching to get back into the hobby after 2 years and I move around a lot so I needed something small and basically self sustaining . Equipment consists of a Chinese par 38 LED that I used over my old 10 gallon , a small 50 watt heater , and an old Top Fin airstone with a diffuser on the end of the hose inside the tank . That ' s it . I have 4 pounds of live rock , and 2 pounds of live sand . Stocking consists of a Blood Shrimp , a Pom Pom Crab , a Halloween hermit crab , 2 Astrea snails , a hitchhiker Stomatella snail , hundreds of copepods , and other random good hitchhikers like limpets , feather dusters , etc Coral includes a big torch coral , an umbrella leather , a plate coral , a couple mushrooms , some GSP , and Xenia . So far ive had no casualties or issues , I had an outbreak of stringy green algae on the glass but the Astrea snails took care of that literally in 3 days . It ' s a very hands off , self maintaining little system and I think a combination of proper setup with quality live rock , and low stocking has made it successful thus far