ready to make the switch!

[Fishy411]

well i am ready to make the switch from fw to sw in my 10 gallon. I calculated teh cost of switching at around 50$. Just tell me if i missed anything and dont worry i researched and i have a friend who can help me out if need be. I plan on getting like 12-13 pounds of base rock and then seeding it with A couple pounds of live rock. I am gonna get play sand and seed it with sand from my friends 40 reef and he trades with evry one so it should be pretty diverse. I Am getting salt mix and the occupants will be a clownfish and either a clown goby or this cool psuedo chromis i saw at my LFS

 

[Def]

What about a skimmer, at the least?

 

[RamJet]

Ahhhhh, play sand is not a good idea.

 

[Fishy411]

What about a skimmer, at the least?

well i am not paying 100 dollars for a skimmer for my 10 gallon tank.

A sw site i was on Said that Play sand was ok when seeded with live sand which is what i am planning to do

 

[Navarre]

well i am not paying 100 dollars for a skimmer for my 10 gallon tank

Sorry but when it comes to marines $100 is just the start... 10 gallon tanks are more expensive to run than larger tanks.. more frequent waer changes, more specialised equipment, if you want to cut coners to save a few bucks now then you are going to end up in trouble later.

Im not saying that marines cannot be done cheaply, they can, but there are some things you just dont cut corners on.

Sand is one of them.. 10 gallons with NO buffer.. problems...

Skimmer is another.. any nutrient that increase ina 10 gallon will do so in a mater of a couple of hours and can jill or stress corals and fish easily. a skimmer will react to this automatically. I would not run a nano tank without one.

 

[Fishy411]

well i am not paying 100 dollars for a skimmer for my 10 gallon tank

Sorry but when it comes to marines $100 is just the start... 10 gallon tanks are more expensive to run than larger tanks.. more frequent waer changes, more specialised equipment, if you want to cut coners to save a few bucks now then you are going to end up in trouble later.

Im not saying that marines cannot be done cheaply, they can, but there are some things you just dont cut corners on.

Sand is one of them.. 10 gallons with NO buffer.. problems...

Skimmer is another.. any nutrient that increase ina 10 gallon will do so in a mater of a couple of hours and can jill or stress corals and fish easily. a skimmer will react to this automatically. I would not run a nano tank without one.

THis is new. Most nanos ive seen have run like penguin Biowheel minis. Also why is this sand bad?

 

[leon]

Also why is this sand bad?

All sands are different, they all have different purposes/uses, play sand is for that, builders sand for building and so on and so on.......
The make up of it different, it will not buffer like marine/crushed coral does ie keeping it at a steady PH (around 8.2) , all the silicates in play sand will give you a tempermental ph, and loads of algea. Use caribsea crushed coral, it isnt that expensive for the size you want, as navarre said, doing it the very cheap way will cost you alot more in the long run!
Also, the tank size you want really is too small for anything really, the min you should really look at for a successful tank is 55gal+.
I'd stear clear of the pseudochromis, ( i assume you are talking about the bi-colour!, as pseudochromis is the latin for part of the dottyback genus, so it covers a fair few!) they can be very territorial, taking on fish way bigger than themselves, so the clown goby would stand no chance, and the clownfish would get picked on i reackon aswell, all of these have a recomended min tank size of 20 gallons. Sorry to put a downer on it, but i think the chances of a successful tank are very slim.
leon