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10 gallon reef tank???

12K views 35 replies 6 participants last post by  usmc121581 
#1 ·
Hey i just wanted to know if this is worth it and how much work it will be because when i get my other 10/bigger tank i wanna make my old one a reef tank. I would be focusing on more coral than fish if i had fish i might get 1 or 2 if possible. Also how would you clean it and everything. Tips wanted plz.(maintenance, how to add rocks, what ones to get, what fish to get, equiptment needed, and more!!)
 
#27 ·
Wow wow he does not have to glue any corals,most corals come with a rock base that you can just place on you bottom or in your rockwork rite?
Inless you want your coral at a angle or want the coral to take to the lr rite?
For your other question no you do not take any fish or corals out to clean the tank the only cleaning that will need to be done is algea scrubbin and partial water changes. for the salt you need aquarium salt that big all should carry.
 
#28 ·
Whoa Whoa Whoa whoa TR, hold on.........

Unless you are positive about what you just said......


And have years of experience..........

You will find yourself having to hold down pieces constantly. Your flow, clean up critters (hermits and snails), fish, vibrations....etc..... will cause your rock to shift and your corals to fall. If you ever get into SPS what you just said is totally false. Your mates will always be sending you home with a frag fromt heir mother colony. They won't be mounted to anything. The last thing on earth you'd ever want to do is buy a beautiful cynarina brain and put it up high somewhere and then come home and find it face down in the sand. Many corals are very fragile and need to be fastened tight to prevent damge.
 
#29 ·
for the salt you need aquarium salt that big all should carry.
You said watch what you post. If you tell a beginner saltwater keeper to get aquarium salt they might think that its fine to get the salt for freshwater. I have seen it happen. The salt you want to get is a like Instant ocean, and there are other manufacturors that make sea salt.

And CRM is right my fish,snails,, and anything that climbs on the rocks has always knocked stuff down. I would wake up in the morning and a softy would be face down, or one of my power heads would blow it over during the day. Also most if all LFS that do frags will either just sell you the frag or it will be glued to a tiny piece of molded rock thats to light to wiegh it down, or the colony from the ocean so the only rock you get are the rock its attached to.
 
#31 ·
what you can do is glue the tiny piece of the rock that the corals on and glue that to a larger piece.
 
#33 ·
Well good luck with it.
 
#34 ·
Here are some pics of what im going for.

And one more thing, can i turn the light off at night because i lsleep in a small room and it wil be like daytime.

Tanks might not be 10 gallong but oh well







This is the background and sand i want, nice look.






 
#36 ·
Its not good to keep moving corals around anyway. Also yes turn the light as you sleep the corals and whatever else sleeps to.
 
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