My ten gallon nano

[nanoreefs415]

Hi i just joined and i was wondering what other people thought about my tank. Its a ten gallon tank with approx. 90 watts of compact light, and a prizm skimmer. for water movment i use a rio hyperflow pump good for about 170 gph. Sorry if pics. are too large.(im new at this)

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There's about 12 pounds of rock, 20 lbs of live sand, and 10 lbs. of crushed coral.

For fish there's a maroon clown and a very small yellow tang (too big for the tank. i know. but i will move it once it grows larger).

For corals theres a small yellow scroll frag, a tree coral, some anthelia, mushrooms, zooanthids, cabbage leather(some green),star polyps, and a small devils hand frag. Once tank has been establioshed for a little while longer i want to get some montipora and maybe a derasa calm.

This past friday i bought a small bta for my clown, but the clown has yet to go in it. There are also about 15 nassarius snails, and a couple balck turbos. Unfortunately theres some hair and slime algae and i was wondering if anyone knew of a good way to get rid of it. The tank has been up and running for a little over a month now. thanks.

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[Agu]

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Here's a thread about resizing pics,

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151077

 

[nanoreefs415]

Today i redid a lot of the plumbing and installed a sqwd. I also made a custom intake for the tube so it wouldnt be inside of the skimmer inlet. To make more life-like water movment i also added a spraybar that i made to the right side of the tank that is also hooked up to the sqwd. Any feedback anyone can give would be awsome. Sry about the large pics.

 

[nanoreefs415]

Here are some new pics of my setup:


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[Cutiewitbooty]

hopefully you can get control of the hair algae, getting rid of that waste factory tang in a 10 gal would help lol Also a maroon will get to big for a 10, they would need at least a 20 IMO I like all you plumbing though, nice work.

 

[MrChico]

That is a good looking anemone, obviously the tank still has some issues that need resolved (algea) I would not add anything else to the tank until you get the algea under control, do that by making water changes at least weekly with RO/DI water test for phosfer and understand that it takes 3-4 months for everything to get completely stable in a SW tank.

Another idea is create a fuge and put macro algea in it, that will out compete the algea in the main tank. Good luck I have found nanos to be very demanding and fairly unstable with my routines.

 

[MrChico]

That is a good looking anemone, obviously the tank still has some issues that need resolved (algea) I would not add anything else to the tank until you get the algea under control, do that by making water changes at least weekly with RO/DI water test for phosfer and understand that it takes 3-4 months for everything to get completely stable in a SW tank.

Another idea is create a fuge and put macro algea in it, that will out compete the algea in the main tank. Good luck I have found nanos to be very demanding and fairly unstable with my routines.

 

[MrChico]

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[nanoreefs415]

Thanks. the tang was an impulse buy. i have had the maroon in another ten gallon for almost 2 years and he has not grown a real lot. The hair algae unfortunately came from the liverock i bought off ebay. I also had a 10 gal. sump/refugium underneath when i first set it up, but i grew frustrated of trying to balance the water flow.