Advice for 10 gallon

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Puffernut

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I am setting up a 10 gallon FOWLR and i need some advice for stocking it. I would like a clown fish, 1 cleaner shrimp, and some snails. How many snails should i have and could i have another smaller fish or will it be to crowed. If i could have another fish i would like something with some color.
 
A couple nassarius snails and two or three others, like I have astrea and trochus snails. Some people suggest ceriths but I've never had them before.

You could add a small goby, court jesters are colorful, but other then that it will harder to handle with the bioload. Make sure you keep up with weekly pwc.

I have two ~1'' tomato clowns (I'm getting another tank in a couple months), one yellow watchman goby, one cleaner shrimp, one emerald crab, 3 blue leg hermits, 3 nassarius snails, two astreas and one trochus, o and a --- long candy cane pistol shrimp. Then corals. I do a ~30% pwc once a week and I have ~25-30lbs of lr.
 
If you got a mated pair then you should be OK. Your shrimp and snails should be OK.
 
In my 20 gallon, I have a pair of Ocellaris Clowns w/ bta, sixline wrasse, yellow watchman goby w/ red pistol shrimp, I think 2 margarita snails and 2 trochus snails and one baby trochus and 4 nassarius snails, one spotted ? snail, one cleaner shrimp, and one hitchhiker crab I'm trying to catch ....... then my corals.
 
I agree with Lance. Do a partial water change once a week (I do 10-20%, roughly). If you have a fairly good filtration system with LR and such, it suffices just fine.
 
A skimmer would be pointless. I would do partial water changes once a week to keep up or even using a good amount of live rock with live sand will help out with filtration.
 
yea man get plenty of LR, and throw an Emporer280 on that beast and call it a day.
 
I wouldn't waste my money on "live" sand, unless it is coming from an established aquarium.
 
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