10g

[donkeys4hire]

I am new to this board and wanted to share my tank. I have a 10g with a purple tip anemone and 2 fadlse percula clown, a green wrase, and a peppermint shrimp.

 

[fullmonti]

sounds like a lot of critters for a 10g tank, hope it works out for you & them.

 

[donkeys4hire]

I am gonna move the wrasse to a 55g

 

[fullmonti]

2 clowns & a nem are still a lot of livestock for 10g of water. Is this tank tied to another tank, or does it have a sump & skimmer? Not trying to tell you what to do, but when I started I had 5 young fish in a 30g with a skimmer & after a few months when the fish grew a little the waste started overwhelming the capacity of the tank.

 

[855012 reefer]

sounds ok besides the green wrasse. 2 false percs should be plenty for a 10 gallon.

 

[fullmonti]

2 clowns & a nem. The 2 clowns would probably be pushing it a bit, & nems put out a fair amount of waste too, & they are all going to grow. I'm still learning like every one else just my 2 cents worth. Maybe some others will add there 2 cents?

 

[Tahoe Reefer]

I've had two clowns in a 10g tank on my kitchen sink for over a year. The tank does require a water change weekly to stay in the zeros but the fish are fine.

 

[tpdpercula]

I also have a pair of breeding True Percs in a 12 gallon nano but you must keep a close eye on smaller tanks with that much livestock in it. It is easy for water chemistry changes in a smaller tank to effect livestock more dramaticly then the same changes in a larger system. Just use caution and keep an eye on water.

 

[donkeys4hire]

I do 10%-15% water changes weekly.

 

[WDLV]

10 gallons is fine for small clowns like percula and ocellaris. That said keeping cnidarians is a little more of a challenge. Clowns can handle the parameters swinging a bit. Anemones... not so much.

 

[fullmonti]

Now that I thought back on my over crowded 30g, it was the sps corals that had the problem not the fish. So +1 on the keep a good eye on your tank. I guess it could be be fine long term, you just wont have much of a margin of error.

I have a bigger tank now but still no nem. I really love clowns & nems together, I'm working on setting up a tank just for that combo, no power heads & covered over flow so no chance of nem soup.

good luck