Its best to start with a larger saltwater tank of about 40 to 100 gallons. But if you have a ten gallon I would add small clown goby's And ossibly a few damsels. Dont go over flow with the fish as you will have many problem and you might as well buy your water distilled as you wont have problems with algea!
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i started with a 12 gallon, made my mistakes, learned from them, and now i have a 90 gallon tank i'm going to make a reef in.
Just pay attention to it, when things go bad in a nano they go bad fast. get one of those nano protein skimmers and a good HOB filter. (or a canister if you really want too)
Just pay attention to it, when things go bad in a nano they go bad fast. get one of those nano protein skimmers and a good HOB filter. (or a canister if you really want too)
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Mine does fine with tap water treated with stress coat(distilled/RO would be ideal, but whatever you have access too...), just make sure your salt is totally saturated in the new mix of water before you dump it in, and always check the current salinity of the tank before you add to much salt than you need, i made that mistake and practically killed my whole tank.
(i plan to get an RO unit in the near future for the 90 gallon)
Cool, thanks for the advice...I had salt mixing problems too...and my aquarium is 100% glass, on a bay windowsill (indoors). The back and sides are covered with black plastic boards...and the top is covered with a translucent white piece of the same stuff. It only gets lots of sunlight for a few hours - after that the sun moves to an angle where the tank isn't hit by the sun, but I can still easily look into the tank at all hours. I'll post some pics of my tank at morning, mid-day, late afternoon and night...tell me if you think I'm gonna have algae problems the size of Russia. P.S when it was a freshwater tank, it had floating algae as thick as kiwi juice...but then when I covered it the water became crystal clear and remained so.
You do not ever want any beach sand. Remember pollution washes up onto the shore. If you collect at the shore you would be introducing nothing but contaminates. Worth it? Most likely not.
If you were able to collect maybe 40-50 feet out, and live somewhere not on a sandbar you might be a bit better off, but I highly doubt something like that would be possible. So better off just purchasing sand from your LFS.
If you were able to collect maybe 40-50 feet out, and live somewhere not on a sandbar you might be a bit better off, but I highly doubt something like that would be possible. So better off just purchasing sand from your LFS.
