10 gallon nano

[Krazy]

well I've got my lil nano set up, I bought a 10 gallon tank from wal-mart's, I've got an old aquaclear 70 HOB filter I had laying around and I've got a coralife 96watt pc fixture above it, 10lbs of sand and maybe 2lbs of rock in there right now....

I want to get 5-7lbs of rubble rock and build it up from there...

I've still got plenty of time for this yet... But I wanna plan ahead...

I can seed this tank with stuff from my 72 bowfront...

But as far as live stock goes...

can I get some suggestions ??

I wanted to do a GBTA with some clowns but not sure what kinda clowns to get, if I do clowns I will keep 2 only no other fish, but if not an anemone tank, they I'd like a couple different small fish...

I plan to have some mushrooms in there maybe kenya tree and xenia...

Suggestions ?

PS: Here's a pic of it so far (running for 4 days now)

 

[rockindacheeks]

i made a huge mistake putting xenia in my 10... ITS EVERYWHERE and i cant get it to stop growing.

 

[Krazy]

I'd imagine whatever I put in there will grow quick with the wattage per gallon, even with it being power compacts...

Tommorow I will probably pick up some live rock rubble, a blue background and a smaller heater that'll fit better then that spare I had laying around...

Do you think the aquaclear 70 provides enough flow alone? Or should I add a power head ( I have 2 maxi jet 1200's laying around, I also have a aquaclear 20 as well)

 

[Jshock]

As far as fish go, I have one scooter blenny, a small clown and a pajama cardinal in my 10g NR. I would recomend scooter blennies even if you have 2 clowns, they are fun to watch. I would recomend some powerheads but a single maxi 1200 might be over kill. I have AC20 filter in my tank now but I hate the darn thing and am in the process of making a DIY wet dry type filter(minus bio balls) with about a 3g overhead sump with random things from around my house. So far its cost about $25(mostly the pump).

 

[bcoons]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7781542#post7781542 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Krazy K
Do you think the aquaclear 70 provides enough flow alone? Or should I add a power head ( I have 2 maxi jet 1200's laying around, I also have a aquaclear 20 as well)

I think the MJ 1200 would blow things around a bit too much. I have a 20L with a modded AC110 on the back as a refugium. I get a pretty nice flow just from it. But I originally put a MJ600 on each end of the tank for more flow. It was too much. I now have a MJ 400 on the right side and a Powersweep 212 on the left side, alternating 5 minutes each under control of a Reeefkeeper 2 contoller. It's about right for my tank. You can see some pics by clicking my gallery icon above.

I think I'd try the AC20 on the end opposite the AC70 and see how that goes.

 

[Zero-2-Sixty]

i use an aquaclear 10 on my 5gal, i think the ac20 would be perfect.

anything you put in that tank will grow like a frikn weed with that kind of lighting

 

[noschmo]

Great aquascaping Job!