The wife's 10 gallon (update 7/29)

[Janus]

Well after about a year of being set up and many changes to the decor she finally has a tank setup that she's really happy with. We managed to get a few good shots of the tank and the livestock, well all except for the engineer goby.

Filtration is taken care of by a single Emperor 280 HOB filter.

Pardon the dark shots still getting used to shooting

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Poor little GBTA's just split and are a bit too small for our clown so both are verry stressed

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Will get some more pics up of our elusive engineer goby soon.

[hanknmorgan]

Nice coralline growth. What is your lighting setup? Your GBTA looks pretty bleached out.

[Texreefer]

looks like it is doing well,, good job!

[Janus]

yeah its a little stressed out right now because our pc fixture blew so we are using only regular florescent lighting. Well that and as i said after a few months in the tank it just split not too long ago. We are picking up another PC retrofit kit for 2x65W at the end of the week. Oddly enough though when we picked it up it wasn't much brighter than this...and that was under halides. The camera doesn't really do too well at picking up the color on this one.....its a very pale florescent green.

[semperfimarine1]

what kind of filtration do you have on this? im wanting to start a ten gallon i just have laying around

[Janus]

well right now we have just a single emperor 280 hang on back filter...I use the stock filter insert and in the custom media basket I cut blue filter padding to fit one half and fille the other half with activated carbon. As far as water changes go we have been doing great with about 1 1/2 gallon changes every 2 weeks. This seems to keep everything pretty stable and we have never had any problems with nitrate spikes.

Also thanks to apedroza and a nifty trade we now have a replacement lighting retrofit kit and are running 1 65w 50/50 power compact. As soon as we can get the halide, skimmer, and the canopy a friend of ours is building, we are going to graduate everyone into a 20 tall we have been piecing together. ;)

[Janus]

Here are some more recent shots of the tanks progression


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One of the best pics of our favorite clown we have managed to get.

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Our most recent addition

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Thank you FireWater for this awesome frag :D

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Wanted to snap some pics of our GBTA's but they have taken up home in the 1 spot I can't shoot them LOL

[tony]

it was nice meeting you today, great looking setup!

[FireWater]

Everything looks good. Glad you like the zoas.

[Janus]

thank you all so much...this tank is my wife's "baby." I'm really proud of how it's progressing and can't wait until we can get our 20 tall up and running. All really need now is just the canopy and eventually a 70-150w halide retrofit kit. We are probably going to have to just get it up and runningwith PC's and keep our eyes peeled for a used setup. Can't wait until our engineer has a little more room to spread out and really swim.

[aquariumd]

Nice looking rockwork. Is some of that sweet rock lime-stone covered in purple coralline?

[Janus]

yep it is indeed limestone. When we started we wanted to have an engineer in the tank so we knew that we would need a nice flat base piece for it to dig under. We have a few shelf pieces of reef bone but the limestone made more sense due to the holes it has through it. Now he has a million little holes to dart into.