New 10g Nano, ideas please!! - Page 3

ok. Cool. I'm glad you already have a coral stock list. What about any fish? Have you looked into anything there again? Here's a few of my favorite nano fish:

pair of clowns

Pair of neon gobies (blue or gold stripe)

green banded gobies

yellow clown gobies

green clown gobies

black clown gobies

brown clown gobies

candy stripe cardinals

pajama cardinals

banggai cardinals

bi-color blenny (will add a lot of color and movement!)

later on once your tank becomes really well established and you consider a sump/fuge you might could get away with a red scooter

There are others, but a lot aren't suited for a 10g tank. You may consider putting some mesh screen on top of the tank to keep your fish from jumping. Avoid Catalina Gobies - they are suited best for cold water aquariums.

Chaeto is ok, but it doesn't grow as well as caulerpa. Chaeto also is woven together - and really needs to be tumbled for maximum growth potential. It also has a tendency to collect detritus, and will need to be shaken regularly.

Personally, I would look into those small air powered skimmers that you could fit in the back of the filter. But, I also like macroalgaes as well - so I'm kind of split over that decision. Either way, it's your tank. lol

I think it would be pretty cool to get a neon goby. I like the blue stripe, personally. neon gobies clean your other fish. But they also readily accept frozen foods and some flake. Trick is to get one to start eating frozen foods. lol But, they make a very nice addition to a small tank.

For a beginner tank - your coral list sounds pretty good. I personally don't like a lot of soft corals. I like the challenge of growing hard stony coral with a few key pieces of soft coral. Can't really mix too many soft coral with hard coral. For some reason or another - it doesn't work well. Anyways - sounds good to me - as long as you are happy with it. :D

Edit. Double post.

Sounds good, lol. Consider adding a polyfilter to the filter side. It will give additional filtration and help suck up toxins, heavy metals, nitrates and phosphates and cleans and polishes your water. Makes your tank cleaner overall. One pad is cuttable - and they last a good while.

With water changes with a good quality salt and the type of filtration you are thinking about getting - I have no reason to believe that you won't have a successful tank.

Good. Glad I could help.

Have you checked,,, that list to see if someone is selling any liverock out of their tanks?? You may have to drive but out here I see people selling rock and breaking down systems all the time then you could just pick what you want at a much better price,, usually $3 a lb or so...

lets just see how you do with soft corals first. Then in a year, consider a small pink tip Haitian anemone. The anemone hosts the clowns, not the other way around.

I highly do not recommend anemones for tanks less than 55g.