10 gallon live stock

The very tiny fish. Things like Eviota and Trimma, or barnacle blennies. Clown gobies too. One of the smaller dottybacks. And as Dayson said, a goby/pistol shrimp pair. Look online to see what fish are suitable for nano tanks.
 
In a ten gallon, you should probably only do one fish. And a pair of clownfish prefer a bit more space, especially once they start breeding. I am going to +1 that goby/shrimp pair. They are fun to watch and do well in smaller tanks.
Consider that even though your tank is 10 gallons, once you add in sand/live rock/decorations, it will actually be quite a bit less water.
 
10 gallon live stock

That is going to depend highly on your lighting and flow. With a new tank set up (especially a small one), it's better to get hardier corals that can deal with water quality changes, and eventually once that calms down, it's going to depend on your lighting. Softies are generally hardy and grow in low light (the little zoas especially), and things like anemone and SPS corals are the hardest to keep and require high lighting.

I hear leathers are generally pretty easy, but as I don't have any myself, I would ask other opinions on that.
 
Yep! A cleaner shrimp would be great for part of your cleanup crew (CUC), or a pistol shrimp/goby pair would be fun too. The pistol shrimp digs out a hole under the rocks in the sand and the goby acts like a watchdog. Just make sure your live rock is directly on the bottom of the tank and not sitting on the sand or when they move the sand around you could have an avalanche.
You could also do snails or hermit crabs as well, but I recommend one or the other. Otherwise your crabs could decide the shell the snail has is worth killing it for.
 
I like clown gobies personally. You could do a green clown goby pair or something like that. Green star polyps. Xenia (I like the pulsating ones), mushrooms, palys, zoas. Good luck!
 
i would do like 3 peppermint shrimps and a pair of clown gobies. they will give the tank a lot of life with no pitting too much bio load. also do snails to keep the tank clean. and buy a few nassaur snails to keep the sand clean. you can keep any corals you want in a 10 gallon tank, like the person said before, its up to your lights and flow and experience. softies are easy but should quickly overrun a 10 gallon tank. i would go lps. maybe a hammer or acans or a Duncan. they wont grow as much, but you will probably need to do a 3 gallon tater change a week to keep up with needs. i would just buy the salt water from lps if they sell it. its cheap and easy. mine sells it for 1 gallon cost you 3 dollars a week
 
TBH, I'd steer clear of a 10 gallon as a newbie. Evaporation can become a real issue very quick in such a small space. What kind of lights do you have? I'd probably avoid most of the softies because they can get big and grow fast, but your lights are going to play a huge part in what you can keep. Especially as a newbie I would suggest not going with a pair of clowns and sticking to one fish. A few inverts will be fine. I personally like hermits over snails, but there are a few snails that fare better with hermit crabs than others. Nassarius snails are cool, they move a little quicker and so far the two I have with my hermit crabs are just fine. Three or four hermit crabs are fine too as long as you have some algae for them to eat. Hermits are easier to keep than snails though, because they will also eat excess food that drops to the bottom. Snails need algae, except for the ones I just suggested, those will eat detritus off of the bottom and move your sand around too. I would stick with trochus snails or the small cerith snails if you are going to keep hermits, and most likely trochus will eventually get eaten and shells stolen if you decide on keeping hermit crabs.
 
lifeoffaith gave great advise. only thing is i like small tank for newbies, especially if you are a person who is anal, maintenance on a small tank is fast and easy and cheap, imo bigger tank might have more lead way because of water volume, but they also tend to have more fish and more stuff going into it. plus, evaporation will be a problem in any tank, just make a like in marker on the outside of the tank and fill with ro water every morning and night and you should be fine.
you can put more inverts in a tank than fish. inverts dont have the same bio-load as fish
 
Put a glass lid on the tank and evaporation becomes extremely minimal. I barley ever need to top mine off
 
glass tops works in reducing evaporation, , but might cause am increase in co2 because of lack of gas exchange, especially without a protein skimmer. might cause ph problems. plus it blocks light so if you corals need higher light requirements this might also be a problem
 
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