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Originally Posted by Gourami Swami
As for the light, T5HO's are beastly. My neighbor has the 48" set on his 90 reef and he can grow whatever he wants.
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They're not THAT beastly, and unless he has a wicked amount of them, I doubt he can grow whatever he wants.
As for lighting, MH is the way to go if you want to keep the more light-demanding corals like SPS and the more light-demanding LPS corals. With T5s, you can keep some really nice soft corals and some easier LPS, like frogspawn. IMO, a 20 would make a nice soft coral or even an all zoanthid tank. I've seen some kick-ass zoa tanks.
What kind of corals are you planning on keeping? This will help determine your lighting. As for what T5 fixture to get, I visited a local reefer's house recently and he had an amazing 75 gallon setup with beautiful soft corals and very simply set up. He ran a Nova Extreme T5 fixture and said he loved it.
The fuge should work very nicely. I've seen many setups in which people turned HOB filters into simple fuges which worked well. I don't think you need to add a powerhead to it, just keeping the flow in the aquaclear nice and easy should make for a good fuge.
Skipping the skimmer would be okay in this tank with just coral and inverts as long as you do weekly waterchanges, but if you plan on adding fish, I would recommend a small skimmer.