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No, live rock provides the best filtration and will keep your nitrates low. Find someone else to talk to at the store, seems like advice to sell you more stuff rather than good advice.
Really depends mainly on your pumps and lighting and how low you run your ac/chiller to keep your tank cool. I use a rather large pump since it is in the basement and I suspect my electric for the tank is in the $75-100 a month range, in wonderful NJ. Now if I was back 5 mins in PA where I used...
I'm going and hopefully will be getting lots of good content for my podcasts as well as good stuff for my tank! I can't wait. This is the first one I have gone too.
Here's an article from my blog at www.120gallons.com that I figured would be helpful to folks here.
With the still rampant use of cyanide in fish collection, as well as the difficulty of sometimes visibly determining that a fish is sick here are some tips to help improve your odds of bringing...