It is harder to keep. I top off my five gallon water and do weekly water changes and weekly test. I only touch my 10 gallon once a month so its around 4 times more upkeep but I love tending to it. I have Duncan corals, Xenia(which for some reason isn't doing well), closed red and green brain coral, green recordia mushrooms, colt coral, and zoo polyps, 2 feather dusters which reproduce a lot, 2 baby clown fish scheduled to go in a 29 gallon in a few months, 1 two spot crab eye goby, and one green clown goby. I used to have a shrimp but iodin chemicals were accidentally added to the water and added to much to the aquarium which made him molt and susceptible to disease and then the nitrates went up to 10 ppm and killed him because ich broke out and I had to switch to frozen food medications. I have 7 lbs of LR and a 20 gallon aqua clear system with bioballs and floss pad, with 47 3 watt white LEDs and 3 3 watt blue LEDs and 5 lbs live sand.
