Our natural 10 gallon...

adee

adee

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This tank is all but been a controversy with it being filled with natural seawater and sand off our coasts but this thread is not for flaming but rather sharing a nano tank with the rest of you.
Here it is currently, lights are off so it looks less then appealing but we caught our bully yellow chromis this afternoon and put them in it to save our peaceful banggai cardinals in our other tank.
CUC:
5 turbo snails
5 hermit crabs
Fish:
2 yellow chromis (bullys plucked from the 125)
approx 4lbs of live rock. its perched on a ledge that separates our kitchen from the dining room... not sure what plans we have for it in terms of some corals. I need to get better lights for it first, right now just the stock lights are in it (We bought the tank as a kit over a year ago to be used as a QT but found it to be too small to QT for the fish we want to buy and it hasnt been used since)
 
geoj

geoj

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I like it, you are temping me to go nano. What would you say is the bonuses over say a 50gal?
 
adee

adee

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I prefer my 125 honestly, there is a lot more leeway if you make a mistake. The smaller tank isnt as forgiving if you know what I mean. I just had this tank sitting under my 125 for nearly a year and decided since it wasnt being used I would set it up. If you want to do a nano, have at it :) I love this hobby and cant wait to do corals in this tiny tank!
 
katsafados

katsafados

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A small tank isnt that hard to doo....
My 10g was my first salt water tank and its been going for almost a year now, with minor bumps,, but nothing that other people havnt experienced..
As long as you keep up to date with your maitnenece and top offs your okay.. I also hardly ever check my water parameters... Only when soemthing seems to be off..
 
mr.clownfish

mr.clownfish

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i really want to start a nano with sand and rocks from my coast too. but the beach is too far away from my house =/
 
adee

adee

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i gotta get back in the swing of things with posting!!
The family is good, we got a puppy june 1st that has kept us on our toes, the 125 sprung a couple leaks that left us totally
as im sure you can imagine but otherwise everything has been great, what about you????
 
adee

adee

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the rock was purchased live for our 125.. we just took it out of that tank and added it to the 10. we live in south east florida, an hour north of miami.
 
nissan577

nissan577

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Originally Posted by ADEE
http:///forum/post/3181627
i gotta get back in the swing of things with posting!!
The family is good, we got a puppy june 1st that has kept us on our toes, the 125 sprung a couple leaks that left us totally
as im sure you can imagine but otherwise everything has been great, what about you????
everyhthing is great!!!!
the tank is doing super and everything is like yay!!!!!!! school is almost over as well to! well for vacation!
 
new2salt1

new2salt1

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Originally Posted by ADEE
http:///forum/post/3185946
the rock was purchased live for our 125.. we just took it out of that tank and added it to the 10. we live in south east florida, an hour north of miami.
gotcha. is LR and/or coral collectible from shore? or are you too far north?
also, would it be possible for you to try to culture your own LR and/or coral in local waters? I actually watched a video on Youtube where a country (I forget which) leases small plots of sea floor to private hobbyists who "plant" coral gardens. Im not sure if it is possible where you live...
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

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Originally Posted by New2Salt1
http:///forum/post/3186327
gotcha. is LR and/or coral collectible from shore? or are you too far north?
also, would it be possible for you to try to culture your own LR and/or coral in local waters? I actually watched a video on Youtube where a country (I forget which) leases small plots of sea floor to private hobbyists who "plant" coral gardens. Im not sure if it is possible where you live...
Regardless of which State we're talking about, LR is not legal to collect anywhere. One of the harder aspects to collecting in So Flo is a place to collect. You're either in public parks which is obviously not okay to collect from, or private land. For corals in Florida, any stony coral (SPS/LPS) are not legal to collect. If you have a saltwater fishing license, you can collect a limited amount of shrooms/rics/zoas. Though the only real chance of finding those is in the lower Keys.
As for aquaculturing Live Rock, Florida has issued a number of permits to private individuals/companies.
 
chrisnif

chrisnif

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I can make a suggestion on lighting that wont set you back a fortune (if your kit is what I think it is). It looks like your tank is a 10 gallon W-mart kit with incandescent bulbs (you probably replaced with screw in flouro). Coralife makes a great self-ballasted 50/50 20W bulb that screws in, and the 10 gallon sets that i've seen take 2 bulbs, so you'd have 40W of 50/50 and if you line the hood with tinfoil you'll be good for all kinds of softies and probably LPS mounted high. I have a 5 gallon with 1 of those bulbs and everything is happy albeit my zoos are "reaching" a bit, but much less now that I lined the hood with foil.
Hope I've helped.
 
adee

adee

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we cannot collect rock/inverts/corals as the PP said... there are a few state parks further south that I have to restrain myself from snagging snails, there are HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of them just begging to be taken but if every one person took one there wouldnt be any.. I would NOT want to be responsible for that....
Here is the tank tonight, I put my 37 gallon light fixture on top of the frame to make due.. a bit of overkill in terms of lights but all the corals popped right open. Were going to get a 29 gallon BioCube after Christmas and we will move all the rocks/inverts/corals/exc into that and put the 10 gallon away again. Now that we made our 125 a FOWLR tank I gotta have *some kind* of coral tank


the toadstool is still angry with me but I expect it to perk right up soon
 
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