Setting up a 10 gallon Nano. What do I need?

Fishnthecorner

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I would like to set up a small 10 gallon tank for my wife... She loves anemone's, I hope I can have one... I have it set-up now with about 15lbs live rock, and a MJ 1200powerhead. I need to get a light, and some _______?
What would be the best light?
 
If you want to run T5s you can get them for 40-80 depending on brand. LEDs will cost around 100 but it would be DIY.
You might want to add a heater.
Do you have a cuc in there? are u planning on keeping any corals?
Im not sure if you can keep an anemone in 10g but im sure others can chime in on that.
 
You can't keep any hosting species of anemone in a 10 gallon long term, and most would not try it short term. You may be able to keep some mini carpets.
 
Assuming you can maintain a stable environment in such a small body of water, your primary challenges will be anemone size, and anemone movement. All clown anemones can easily outgrow a 10gallon tank. Additionally, you will need water movement, and anemones can easily move around a small tank and get sucked into water intakes, powerheads, etc.

If you can find them, the two smallest clown anemones are H. malu and H. aurora. Both species are sand anemones, so they tend to want to stay low in the substrate, and their light requirements are moderate. If you can find a really small BTA, and keep it under bright light with minimal feeding, it will tend to stay small with shorter tentacles... but not always :)

If you aren't set on having clowns and anemones together, or don't really care whether you have a clown anemone, there are other anemones (and anemone-like creatures) that would be better suited to small tanks. Mini-maxi and maxi-mini carpets, zooanthids and palys, and ricordea would work well. There are also some LPS corals with anemone-like polyps that might work.
 
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