10g Nano Tank

[n00bie]

I know it will be a challenge. My plan is to get the water setup first. I'll then add the live sand for a couple weeks (I can probably do shorter but no hurry since I have other tanks to play with ). After the sand has been in a while, I'll add live rock and let that sit for probably another 2-3 weeks. My biggest question is what kind of light setup can I get that would fit a standard 10g. I will probably only be doing a couple shrimp or crabs and fish will not be added until a couple months down the road (if at all).

Any help on the lights would be greatly appreciated.

 

[impur]

Will you be keeping corals? If so, head over to hellolights.com and check out the 96w Powerquad. It runs about $100 but its a great light. Get the legs too, keeps the light off the surface of the water!!

If this will be FOWLR then any light will do.

 

[ostrow]

Add the sand and rock together. No reason to separate.

Oh, and don't buy any expensive livestock or sensitive livestock, as a tank that tiny IS going to crash, and crash fairly regularly.

 

[impur]

Oh, and don't buy any expensive livestock or sensitive livestock, as a tank that tiny IS going to crash, and crash fairly regularly.

Eh? I have seen 10 gal tanks up for 3-4 years with no crashes. How do you come to this conclusion?

 

[Daveo]

good luck!


Daveo

 

[ostrow]

A 10G reef? By a newbie? Not crash for years? I tend to be skeptical.

 

[n00bie]

It will probably only be FOWLR, with any life on the rock being the extent of any reef-type inverterbrates. I honestly don't know if I'll have any actual fish, just some shrimp and crabs.

 

[Max]

It will probably only be FOWLR, with any life on the rock being the extent of any reef-type inverterbrates. I honestly don't know if I'll have any actual fish, just some shrimp and crabs.

that would be cool, i think you should get one fish though, maybe a firefish goby, or purple firefish goby. they are small, hardy and need looking...