Beeguiles 10 gallon contest tank

[beeguiles]

Full tank shot

I started my tank jan 16th 2012.

Equipment
Aqua clear 70 filter converted into a fuge
Heater and thermometer
One 240 gph koralia power head
Odyssea 4 bulb HO t5 fixture
Mag float algae scrapper

Livestock
One green spotted mandarin
One hectors goby
One clown goby
One hi fin red banded goby
Three turbo snails
I think five hermit crabs

Corals
Two frogspawns
Green trumpets
Green Ora Birdsnest
Brain coral
Plate coral
Cherry bomb zoas

Parameters
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5
PH 8.0
Sg 1.025
Temp 80-82
Two gallon water change once a week. Top off every other day.

Here are some pictures! I am not adding anything else other than maybe a shrimp and corals. I have found that my tank is sustainable with the livestock that it has with diligent weekly water changes. Hope you all enjoy!

 

[beeguiles]

Also two nass snails that never come out.

 

[chichimom79]

Easy to forget about those nassarius snails. LOL Tank is looking great!

 

[FishyReef]

Yay! I so love your tank Brittany!

 

[Waddi]

Very eye catching!

 

[beeguiles]

Thanks guys!!

 

[Rufio808]

Love the clown goby. Just chillin and hanging out!

 

[Gizmo]

Look's great. That black sand really makes colors pop.

 

[R3verb]

Looks good! Consider yourself entered! Also, I love your birdsnest. I have always wanted one of those!

 

[beeguiles]

Thanks! Its one of my favorites!

 

[beeguiles]

Looks like its time to do an update. Not really much to update on though. Parameters are the same.

Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5
Temp 82

Added a couple sps corals that werent thriving in my 29g. I didn't have a higher spot for them so they are in the ten hoping they will thrive in there. Stock list is the same as well.

Hector's goby
Spotted mandarin
Clown goby
Red banded goby
Three turbos
Two Nass snails
Hermits I think 6 or 7

Brain coral
Plate coral
Green birdnest
Acropora
Frogspawns
Zoas
Another unknown soft coral

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[beeguiles]

The frogspawns are doing better

 

[beeguiles]

Time for an update!

Parameters are the same.
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5
Temp 80-82
Sg 1.025
Ph 8.0

I added some corals to this tank from my 29 gallon. I added the brain coral that i am nursing back to health. It's actually a lot easier to spot feed it in such a small tank. Also added my fluorescent green soft coral. Not sure if it's some kind of leather or a nepthea. I bought two acro frags that we're browned out at the lfs but they aren't seeming to color back up. Also added a duncan frag. This guy gets fed everyday now so I'm expecting him to grow rapidly.

Here is my stock list now

Fish
Spotted mandarin
Hector's goby
Hi finned red banded goby
Yellow clown goby

Inverts
Handful of hermits left
Three turbo snails
Two nass snails
Lotsss of bristle worms

Corals
Nepthea
Candy cane
Zoas
Birds nest
Acros
Two brains
Plate coral
Two frogspawns
Another unknown yellow soft coral
Duncan

I scraped all the algae off the glass today and did my weekly water change. I looked in my little fuge and there was no more cheato in there...idk if it died or was so fine that it went thru the little grate and got eaten by the snails. Maybe sometime this week I'll fill it back up with some better cheato. The stuff I got last time was Kinda nasty. Theres also a bit of detritis on top of my sand so i need to bulk up my cuc it looks like. Now it's time for pics!

 

[chichimom79]

Looks good!

 

[Bifferwine]

That mandarin is a chubster! Nice job.

 

[beeguiles]

Update:

Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5-10
Temp 80-82
Sg 1.025
Ph 8

Tank is doing great. I added a couple corals from my 29g. Some zoas and yellow polyps. Here's some pics

Clown goby on green nepthea

Cherry bomb zoas really starting to spread.

Zoas I just dropped in

Yellow polyps

Duncan gettin huge

Brain still Doing well with recovery

Fts

Birdsnest growing very well

 

[Washburn82]

Looks great Brittany, to think a month or so ago you were banging your head about this tank, now look at it. :) Great job! Still think Oliver needs to do some excercise or something...

 

[Alex]

I really like it! Everything looks so vibrant, and healthy! Can't wait to see more of this tank!

 

[chichimom79]

Looks really great!!!!!

 

[beeguiles]

I may have been slacking on updating my thread. All my time has been spent on the 93g lately. Nothing really new in the tank.

Temp 80
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5-10
Sg 1.025
Ph 8.0

Corals
Two brains
Yellow polyps
Zoanthids
Took frogspawns out
Green nepthea
Green Birdsnest
Took out plate coral
Green trumpet coral

Fish
Yellow clown goby
Hi fin goby
Spotted mandarin
Hector's goby

Two or three turbos, can't remember and two mass snails
Also a few hermits