Bubbley_99

Any way i was wondering if this is a good set up for a 10 gallon tank?
CORAL
Blue mushroom
Button Polyp
Australian Big Polyp Blastomussa – Aquacultured
Neon Pineapple Tree Coral – Aquacultured
Candy Cane Coral
INVERTS
Peppermint Shrimp
3 Dwarf Yellow Tip Hermit Crab
3 Dwarf Zebra Hermit Crab
3 Scarlet Reef Hermit Crab
10 Top Crown Snails
LIVE THINGS
10 lbs. refugium Rubble
11 lbs. Reef Base
MAINTENENCE
Aquarium Surface skimmer
Maxi-Jet powerhead
Red Sea hydrometer with Liquid Crystal Thermometer
mini heater
SUPPLEMENTS AND ADDITIVES
Seachem Reef calcium
Kent Marine Strontium and Molybdenum
Kent Marine iodine
Kent Marine Essential Elements
Red Sea Coral Pro Salt
Stress Coat® Marine
One and Only Nitrifying Bacteria by Dr Tim's Aquatics Reef-Pure
FOOD
San Francisco Bay Brand Frozen Mysis Shrimp
Aqueon Marine Flakes

Is this a good set up? Also the kit I'm getting comes with a filter and low to moderate lighting. And one more thing I don't know what fish I should put in this nano reef I wanted a yellow-tail blue damsel but I'm not sure any ideas?

Matt

Here is a link. I think you should read this: http://www.fishlore.com/nanocubereefaquarium.htm

-Matt

cerianthus

It is possible if you had some experiences with Reef tank. it seemed well stocked. Pay very close attention to water condition when you set up. As far as fish goes after the tank ESTABLISHES BIOLOGICALLY, other fish may be better choice rather than Y?T Damsel which is pretty aggressive, especially towad each other in small space and few in numbers.
If you have some experience in reef, pair of Nemo would add colors to your tank along with small goby(Citron Gobies, Prawn gobies, etc) for bottom ( provided you use sand for substrate instead of rubbles), and even couple of fire fish and/or one pygmy angel to pick on algae. Better of with premiun LR (very porous, light in weight).

This all depends how much research you do and how much devotion you give to tank.

Moderate lighting? Done Softies and LPS under Flo Lighting for long time ( in late 80's) if use proper bulbs (combo of 10K/Act03). Better result in T5 or PC, if possible.


I'm assuming that you are buing someone's whole set up. If you are, save as much water possible. If need to top it off, add smalll amount of new water thru out the day.

Good Luck!

sirdarksol

That seems like a pretty heavily stocked tank, as far as the inverts go, but I'm a fan of understocked.
One question I have is "are all of those corals docile?" If any of them is aggressive, you're going to have problems in that small of a tank. As the aggressive corals grow, they'll crowd their tankmates out.

cerianthus

Yup! No need to worry since will not grow bigger that fast. w/ proper rock layout, should be abl to accomodate all, even few more with better lighting. Just do not add one that has long sweeping arms (euphyllia sp., etc). Can also add some mushroom toward the bottom. coral are photosynthetic due to smbiotic algae w/i corals thus what is produced by coral can be used up by symbiotic algae including PO4. Have good circulation in the tank w/ protein skimmer running to remove chemicals produced by coral (Chemical Warfare, Survival of the Fittest!!!LOL, but true).

cerianthus

I missed these items. Loose the Stresscoat (no viscous solution for reef, aged the water with perculation) and nitrifying bacteria since LR will do that for free.
Add to list are:
Kent coral vite, Tech-I and Coral Accel, magnesium.
Had good results w/ Kent products.
Should have Calcium test kit to maintain calcium level for Stonys.
Use all additives carefully due to overdosing will pollute your water (more work and waste of money). IMHO, amount should be determined by amount of corals in the tank, not just by its volume. Its your judgement call.
Hopefully by the same time next year, you'll have bigger or few reef set ups running .

Rbacchiega

I would hold off on the suppliments until you know what your tank needs. When I first got into Reef keeping I was all paranoid and was going to buy everything that seachem or kent's website said to.

Red Sea Coral Salt is a pretty decent salt (not the best, but not the worst either) and contains trace elements like iodine, mag, calcium etc...so test these levels constantly to determine if you need additives.

My one reef has 5 clams, lots of LPS and SPS corals, so I dose with extra calcium to help them...to give you an idea...when the tank was cycled, and didn't have many stony corals in it I was getting a coral reading of 400 give or take (I use seachem reef salt). Once I added more clams and got into the Stony corals, I noticed that, even with regular waterchanges my calcium reading never got above 370. Now I dose with calcium and maintain a reading of 430.

No need in spending money if you don't have to

cerianthus

Absolutely!!
Since it seemed good amount of stuff are included, why not accept?

As i said, Dosing should depends on amount of Corals, not in water volume. All of synthetic salt claimed to be better than others but no salt alone is good enough for reef since more demands and every tank is different.

Just geting back into reef after 6 years of absence.

Received free frags from old friends on last Sun in 10 G seahorse tank (used ocean water w/ additives). Opened up readily that afternoon. 55W PC. Running the tank on LR, sponge filter. Hooked HOB to remove sponge when male seahorae is ready to give birth in 2-1/2 tank. He's been incubating for just about a month. Have few jars filled with ocean water w/ all the microfauna from it and been doding ltl phyto near window. Hopefully this water has enough and proper microfauna for babies.

Rbacchiega

oooh! Very exciting! I've only ever had my clowns and my bangai cards spawns....it's fun and if I were really into it I'd get my lazy @$$ off the couch/tattoo chair and set up fry holding tanks for when it happens again...but for now, if they survive they survive. I've had a few Bangai's make it long enough to be sold to fellow reefers...

Bubbley_99

Thanks for everyones help but I changed my mind since my friend has a spare 20 gallon it doesn't some with light so I am just gonna have fish only(no live rock) tank with flame angel, flame hawk, and Blue damsel

cerianthus

Not bad if were able to raise them to be sold as tank raised. Had few Pairs of toamto clowns whom will lay the egg on the underside of most difficult rock to remove. Seen hatching of frys then before i get a chance to suck them out w/ air lline tubing, never has given me the opportunity.
One day in near future when I set up 72 Bow reef, which is being used to hold architectural drawings, hope I will get a chance to raise some youngs to sellable sizes just to give mayself a little satisfaction.

cerianthus

Do Fish Only w/ LR (FOWLR) tank. Do consider adding live rock to tank before fish are added. just a recommendation!!!