I will hopefully be setting up a Red Sea MAX 130D soon. I wanted to do either Caribbean shallow reef or a Pacific deep reef. My question was if the MAX could support this.

If I did the Caribbean reef there would be significant amounts of algea and I'm worried that they would consume & lower the tanks oxgen levels dangerously low at night. Would the stock protein skimmer provide enough aeration at night?

If I did the Pacific reef it would be dominated by Sun Corals & Tube Anemones (not photosynthetic), so there would be great daily food inputs. I would be doing 25% weekly water changes, but I was worried that the tank couldn't keep up with the nutrient input. Would the water changes & stock skimmer handle this?

Thanks for the help!

Add an air-stone in one of the back chambers, spot feed the animals.

should able to support, i just did mine

The protein skimmer should provide more than adequate gas exchange.

Non-photosynthetic reefs are so cool, I'd set one up if I had the room. I'd plan on 50-100% water changes (I do this on any tank less than 100 gallons anyway) weekly, but there's no reason why it shouldn't work. If you're that concerned, get an ozonizer.