Pics from my saltwater nano-reef - 10g

[parker313]

Here are some pictures from my 10 gallon nano-reef. I'm so happy with how it's working out

Baby true percula clownfish:

Toadstool mushroom leather coral:

Orange w/ brown & green skirt zooanthids:

Red Mushroom:

Finger Leather Coral (?):

Brown Polyps:

Funny pic of the clown, I *really* wish he weren't right in the corner!:

Green clown goby:

Purple firefish:

 

[Cute-n-Fury]

wow parker you tank is so cool id love a nano reef but they dont sell them in the uk. gd luck with it

 

[Fishy411]

Yur tanks a little overstocked but if u have good Filtration you will be fine.

 

[parker313]

Yur tanks a little overstocked but if u have good Filtration you will be fine.

Yeah, I know. I posted about it in my journal on the Marine forum... I ordered from liveaquaria this past week and did a big ooops. I was playing around and putting things in my shopping cart that I'd *like* to have. Well, when I added in my coral and snails, I got everything else out except the goby ) I wasn't even going to consider another fish for another 3-4 mos or so but luckily this was the one that got left in the cart, not that blue tang I really wanted

 

[parker313]

More pics

Unidentified new thing. Looks like a fan worm/feather duster kind of thing.

My other zoos I didn't get a pic of yesterday:

Same zoos:

Whole tank shot:

 

[smithrc]

wow parker you tank is so cool id love a nano reef but they dont sell them in the uk. gd luck with it

?? Any small tank is a nano... add a bit of reef and voila - a nano-reef

The pictures look cool. What lighting do you have over the tank?

 

[parker313]

Thanks! I just upgraded to a hood that has a 55w daylight (10K) and a 55w actinic bulb. It's a HUGE change from the standard fluorescent light that I had on there before. I'm mainly interested in the soft corals anyway so I didn't need any powerful metal halide lighting.

 

[Puffer_freak]

Excellent!

Great looking tank!

Well done!

 

[parker313]

Thank you, it's a whole different world from FW and I'm having a ball with the challenge

 

[jflowers]

Cant believe your tank, so cool, mine is nearly 6 x the size and yours looks AS good, if not better. i started mine just after yours and followed your diary day by day. My only pics are in my sig, my clowns and wrasse.

Jon

 

[parker313]

) Thanks Jon! You're lucky to have 2 clowns. By the time I realized I wanted 2 clowns, the lfs was all out and wouldn't get any more for another couple months and I didn't want to give the existing one a chance to get settled and think the tank was HIS

It's easy to make the little tanks look better quicker - fewer corals fill it up. If my corals were in your tank, it would look empty b/c they'd be so small relatively.

Isn't it fun though?!

 

[Joel]

is it hard to maintain your reef? I want one but am afraid everything will just die.

 

[Fishy411]

Actually If yur Clown Got settled it would think the Tank was HERS. THey change from Male to Female in absence of a female

 

[parker313]

Actually If yur Clown Got settled it would think the Tank was HERS. THey change from Male to Female in absence of a female

I got caught again We just had this discussion in the Marine section the other day and I got it wrong there b/c I was being distracted. No excuses this time, I just keep thinking of the clown as a HE for some reason

Joel - It's not hard at all, it's just different from FW and takes more paying attention to water levels. You have to use R/O water instead of tap water and any shifts in your water parameters can be killer to your corals, other inverts or fish.

 

[fufanu360]

how big do clowns get? nice tank