My 10g Reef

Wow, that might be a little to big for that tank lol.

 

I would agree. Although, the amount of flow I have going on isn't too crazy. It essentially replaced my powerheads and the flow of the water has actually improved greatly except I have once spot where detritus collects but I look at this as an opportunity to remove it.

My corals don’t seem to mind it either; I think they love the flow now and my sand is staying on the bottom of the tank.

The only issue I have is my micro bubble problem. I understand it’s part of the break in process so I will be looking forward to them going away.

Leave it to me though… I have always been one to overdo it. I would tank to a gun fight.

I figure it looks a bit crazy and it is large but I will give it a fair shot and see how it goes. Maybe it will work really well and do just fine. If not, when I upgrade to a larger tank, I will just use it then.

 

Oh, and here is a shot of my micro bubbles that are driving me batty... Lol

 

Currently have (inverts)
2 Astrea Tectas
3 Various Hermits
1 Porcelain Crab
1 Turbo Snail

Getting these inverts:
2 Porcelain Crabs
1 Gorgonians Frag
2 Nassarius Vibex
1 Peppermint Shrimp
2 Nerite Snails
4 Dwarf Cerith
1 Emerald/Ruby Crab
3 Virgin Nerites

These are going in the tank Tuesday!

 

Congrats on your future additions! Gotta love the Porcelain Crabs .

 

Sounds awesome. I can't wait to see pics

 

I'm impatient and I dont want to wait for them to get here tuesday. Although that is better than not at all the frag worries me a bit but i will work it all out some way.

 

So, I received everything in the mail yesterday and floated all the bags and set everything free in the dark. Came home today and the tank is just full of life and movement(other than my annoying micro bubbles). I know I have algae issues as well. I kind of let it go for a while knowing that I was going to finish this tank off as an invert tank.

The only things I want anymore would be few more coral frags. Preferably a mushroom and a few more zoas of some kind. My green zoas are struggling because I failed and let them get algae growth on them. Now they won't open and they look rather angry. I gently removed the algae growth and they are still pretty angry. I figure I will just leave them alone and see how it goes.

I must also give a shout out of many thanks to John over at reefcleaners.org because he doesn't even know it but he was a huge part of this tank working out for me. The dry rock and pretty much a majority of my inverts are all from there. Also, he helped me a lot with the dwarf ceriths and a couple hermit crabs. I ordered 4 and he seemingly gave me a small handful and there were a few small hermits in the mix because, well, hermits will kill snails for their shells. It happens. Those few hermits and snails really brought my tank together.

In a previous post I mentioned what I ordered and everything came in alive and well and it is all acclimated now and my tank is just full of movement and life. I am only going to post 5 pics for now since I could take pics all day of this thing because of all of the life I have in there.

 

Looking good.

 

Now today I have found a bristle worm in my tank. That's new. I know in reality it has been there the whole time but first time I saw it was today few minutes ago. This also the first time I have seen one in person.