Baby's 10 gallon nano

[bakercl9]

Recently set up a nano for our son in his room, given he's only a few months old it will be a bit before he really enjoys it haha.

Figured I might as well start a progress thread to watch it grow. I don't have a lot of money to dump in it right now, so most things are being done on the smaller side of the budget.

Luckily, I have plenty of testing supplies and equipment still laying around from service tanks.

Equipment used:
10 gallon standard tank
2x10watt 50/50 PC bulbs
Marineland 150-soon to be modded to hold cheato
Duetto 100 - packed with live rock rubble, used more or less as a powerhead. Had it sitting around from a previous tank.
13-15lbs of live cured fiji
15lbs of crushed coral substrate - 5 lbs came from established system

Equipment ordered:
2x24watt 50/50 Coralife PC bulbs
Chemi-pure elite

Current stock:
2 blue leg hermits
Yellow polyps
GSP
Small hammer frag
Green mushroom
Feather duster - Going back to work before to long
Zoa frags
Small BTA

Possible stocking:
Waiting for two nice looking misbars to come through
Black ray goby
Pistol shrimp
Various coral frags

Future CUC:
Small hermits-roughly 5
Various snails-Nasarius, Turbos, Margaritas
Peppermint shrimps

2 1/2 weeks after Initial Setup and cycle - Light burnt out that day
http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/bakercl9/FirstFrags12.jpg

Added more live rock
http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/bakercl9/3-18-11NewRock.jpg

Shots of small frags and feather duster
http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/bakercl9/3-18-11NewRock3.jpg

Caught damsel, re-worked rock setup.
http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/bakercl9/Bubbletip6.jpg

http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/bakercl9/Bubbletip15.jpg

http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/bakercl9/Bubbletip14.jpg

Thanks for looking, any suggestions greatly appreciated. Outside perspectives are always helpful.

[duncantse]

Looking good so far!

[bakercl9]

Not to much has changed since the last update.

Got lights in today, and removed the feather duster.

Now all I need are more frags, and waiting on my clowns to come in.

FTS
http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/bakercl9/DSC00296.jpg

Small Hammer frag
http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/bakercl9/Lights9.jpg

BTA
http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/bakercl9/Lights11.jpg

[duncantse]

Wow! Your water parameters must be perfect for housing an anemone.

[bakercl9]

BTA's are usually pretty forgiving as anemones go. But, I don't really have much of a bioload in the tank yet. I just got my chemi-pure elite yesterday too so that should help if it works as well as people say it does.

I also just do 10% water changes weekly to replace trace elements, keep ph stable, and water parameters in check.

Now that I got my lights, i'm going to go over to a friend's house and raid his tank for some frags pretty soon.

[cmac23]

I wouldn't suggest a nem until your tank is at least 6 months old, but I would wait till a year mark. My opinion though

[SkullV]

Nice tank but that is an EXTREMELY bleached Bubble Tip Anemone and your lighting is not strong enough to nurse it back to health. I would consider returning it for credit if you can.

[cmac23]

nice tank but that is an extremely bleached bubble tip anemone and your lighting is not strong enough to nurse it back to health. I would consider returning it for credit if you can.

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