Ten Gallon Nano Reef Questions

[Wiggles92]

Wow! That many tanks in college. That is pretty cool, in time you will have more space.....for more tanks

Indeed I will have more space soon. Luckily I do not live in a residence hall; in residence halls, we are restricted to just a single 20 gallon aquarium.

I'm now trying to decide whether I want to convert my 20 gallon long into a marine system or not. Problem is that I'm not sure if I want to put my 14" long lungfish in a 10 gallon in order to do that; it would be fine since it just needs room to fully stretch out according to the lungfish experts but I'm not sure if I want to downgrade it.

 

[FLESHY]

Lungfish hardly move at all, but get much too big for a ten.

A pair of clowns COULD be kept for life in a 10g, but you would probably feel bad about it, even though they dont stray far.

A 20g is a good recommendation. 20-40 is more than they will never "need" though.

 

[Wiggles92]

Lungfish hardly move at all, but get much too big for a ten.

A pair of clowns COULD be kept for life in a 10g, but you would probably feel bad about it, even though they dont stray far.

A 20g is a good recommendation. 20-40 is more than they will never "need" though.

I know that the lungfish is going to grow much bigger than it currently is, but the growth rate on this one is pretty slow despite a good feeding schedule. It's grown about 2" in the four months that I've had it, and I've always been told that they're fine in an aquarium in which they just have space to stretch all the way out. I don't think that I'm going to downgrade it at all; it's my favorite fish, so I want to give it more space than is the bare minimum.

I guess I keep watching craigslist for a decent priced used regular 20 gallon. I should be able to fit the regular sized 20 gallon; I would just have to get rid of one of my two 10 gallons.

 

[FLESHY]

Sweet. Sounds like that will work.

Keep us posted.