Looking to do 10 Gallon Nano

[jmcbroom]

Hey folks!

If anyone's interested in the background as to why I'm doing this, here goes it. I have a 110 Gallon Cichlid tank with a DIY sump and DIY drilled overflows, running fine for 6 months (I used to be big into Cichlids, my fiance convinced me to get back into it). Well, my daughter (who see's me on the weekends) wanted a fish so we got her a Betta with her X-mas money. Three weeks later, the door was accidently left open and the cat chowed down on a fishey snack, so out to the pet store to get her a bigger 10 gallon tank and some guppies. Sadly, they didn't last, I suspect the filter was junk. I've convined my fiance to let me take the tank over and convert it to sw. I seem to be more than capable of keeping "hard to keep" fish and my cichlids breed like rabbits, but simple fish have a habit of dying in my place

Questions. Since this tank sits on our bar seperating the kitchen from the living room, I don't really want equipment thrown about, but I want what I need. What skimmer should I get? I like the AquaC Remora and I like the filter box that you can buy to surface skim, is this a good skimmer?

What about flow? I want to keep a couple frogspawn, button polyps and maybe a toadstool or two. Fish wise, I'm looking at a clown (true) and maybe a basslet or two.

Lighting? I would rather not use MH if I can get away with it. I was thinking maybe a 50/50 PC setup, if they even make them for a 10 gallon.

Any other suggestions/opinions, please throw them about.

Thanks!

 

[timschmidt]

You don't ***need*** a skimmer in a 10g so long as you keep up with weekly water changes. I'm not the person to ask on corals but just make sure there is some room between the frogspawn and anything else. For surface skimming they sell an adapter that you can put on any hang on back filter (like an Aqua Clear, popular to convert into a refuge). I recommend buying an aquaclear filter and putting your heater in there along with some chaeto (sp?). That way you can run some carbon (chemi pure) and anything else you would need to add in (phosphate sponge, etc...) Coralife has a wonderful PC 50/50 light that fits normal 10 gallons. Here is a link.

http://www.hellolights.com/201xcoaqpcho.html

Hope this helps.

 

[jmcbroom]

Cool, that's the little brother to the light I have on my A/C tank.

I was looking at doing the AquaClear mod, which model do I get? What's the adapter that you metnioned that does the surface skimming?

So, the skimmer is out, that's saves a couple hundered bucks!

What other corals could I keep with the frogspawn? I figure two or three fish will be plenty, maybe a few snails and some coral. I'm not looking to pack a whole bunch into this little pace, but I want something that looks attractive.

Thanks for the help so far.

 

[dmiles11]

Try this out.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=679159