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donkeys4hire
03/07/2010, 08:15 AM
I am new to this board and wanted to share my tank. I have a 10g with a purple tip anemone and 2 fadlse percula clown, a green wrase, and a peppermint shrimp.
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fullmonti
03/07/2010, 12:27 PM
sounds like a lot of critters for a 10g tank, hope it works out for you & them.
donkeys4hire
03/07/2010, 01:10 PM
I am gonna move the wrasse to a 55g
fullmonti
03/07/2010, 01:51 PM
2 clowns & a nem are still a lot of livestock for 10g of water. Is this tank tied to another tank, or does it have a sump & skimmer? Not trying to tell you what to do, but when I started I had 5 young fish in a 30g with a skimmer & after a few months when the fish grew a little the waste started overwhelming the capacity of the tank.
855012 reefer
03/07/2010, 01:56 PM
sounds ok besides the green wrasse. 2 false percs should be plenty for a 10 gallon.
fullmonti
03/07/2010, 02:08 PM
2 clowns & a nem. The 2 clowns would probably be pushing it a bit, & nems put out a fair amount of waste too, & they are all going to grow. I'm still learning like every one else just my 2 cents worth. Maybe some others will add there 2 cents?
Tahoe Reefer
03/08/2010, 12:46 AM
I've had two clowns in a 10g tank on my kitchen sink for over a year. The tank does require a water change weekly to stay in the zeros but the fish are fine.
tpdpercula
03/08/2010, 01:23 AM
I also have a pair of breeding True Percs in a 12 gallon nano but you must keep a close eye on smaller tanks with that much livestock in it. It is easy for water chemistry changes in a smaller tank to effect livestock more dramaticly then the same changes in a larger system. Just use caution and keep an eye on water.
donkeys4hire
03/08/2010, 06:42 AM
I do 10%-15% water changes weekly.
10 gallons is fine for small clowns like percula and ocellaris. That said keeping cnidarians is a little more of a challenge. Clowns can handle the parameters swinging a bit. Anemones... not so much.
fullmonti
03/08/2010, 01:16 PM
Now that I thought back on my over crowded 30g, it was the sps corals that had the problem not the fish. So +1 on the keep a good eye on your tank. I guess it could be be fine long term, you just wont have much of a margin of error.
I have a bigger tank now but still no nem. I really love clowns & nems together, I'm working on setting up a tank just for that combo, no power heads & covered over flow so no chance of nem soup.
good luck
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