10 gallon nano coral requirements?

[Pea-brain]

Hi. I have recently set up a 10 gallon marine predator tank, my first marine tank. It holds 1 Mantis shrimp, a spearer type (OMG! YOU PUT IT IN THERE ON PURPOSE?!?!?! calm down lol) a 3-4 inch sand bed, 4 pounds live rock, 8 pounds dead, 2 damsels, 2 hermits, 5 nassarius snail, 5 nerites, 1 margarita, and a handfull of "spaghetti hair macro algae" tucked in the corner. I am running a reef sun 50/50 18" 15 watts. with a protien skimmer and biowheel running. I haven't had any bad algae yet, Which I assume means my well water is free of phosphates, and I know it has no nitrates. My tank currently has 20 ppm of nitrates, and I do a 3 gallon water change every week. I was wondering what changes I'd have to make to accomodate corals, specifically starburst polyps. What is the maximum nitrates I can have? What do I need to feed/supplement? minimum lighting requirements? I know I'll need a powerhead... I'm just toying with the idea and probly won't do it, but I am curious. Thanks in advance!]

 

[murfman]

Depending on what you want to do for corals will depend on your lighting requirements. Starburst polyps? Do you mean Sunburst corals? Yellow palathoa looking things? You will probably loose your fish to the mantis.

 

[Pea-brain]

The fish are there to be lost to the mantis. However his spearing appendages are injured so it will be another molt or 2 before they are food. I don't think they are sunbursts. They are polyps, sometimes called star polyps, daisy polyps, eight tentacle. Its on liveaquaria.com under corals--->polyps. I would put a link, but my computer doesn't let me copy/paste.