10 gallon reef

[sinibotia]

Returning user after a long time. Done with freshwater but this is my nano reef build.

Livestock:
1 black ray goby
1 tiger pistol shrimp
1 peppermint shrimp
1 scarlet cleaner shrimp
2 turbo snails
2 trochus snails
1 cerith snail
3 blue leg hermit crabs

Added today but not pictured, 1 pink streaked wrasse

Corals:
Neon green toadstool
White toadstool
Green star polyps
Green zoas
Armor of God zoas
Red ricordea
kenya tree
Neon green sinularia

Added today but not pictured: Ultra goniastrea

 

[Sniperhank]

Can you tell us more about it? How long has it been going? What all do you do to it for maintenance?

 

[sinibotia]

Can you tell us more about it? How long has it been going? What all do you do to it for maintenance?

It's been a little more than 6 months. I've had pretty good success. The only outright death I've had was an emerald crab early on. Had a firefish jump a few weeks ago and a pink bar goby jump early on. I lost a montipora digitata and a green birdsnest, but otherwise my corals have generally grown or stayed static. Wiped out an aptaisa invasion too.

I do 10-20% water changes weekly, I mix up with regular IO salt. I dose two part, but my calcium and alk still tend to run really low. My nutrients run fairly high but my corals seem to like it.

Filtration is an aquaclear 50 being run as a refugium with chaeto and a bag of carbon. Also running a koralia nano pump.

 

[sinibotia]

Here's the coral and the wrasse. The pictures are from diver's den, I don't have pictures of them in the tank yet.

 

[Sniperhank]

What kind of lighting do you have over top of the system?

 

[sinibotia]

The light is a lumini pixie 30. Not terribly strong but it was affordable and does the job

 

[Fishlegend]

Wow

I like to see more small sw tanks