Need ideas for 10 gallon

[Mr.Schertz]

I have been out of the hobby for a bit. I was in petsmart the other day just looking around and decided to buy their aqueon 10 gallon combo. Lid,light,tank,filter for under 30 bucks. The light is the cheap screw in bulb(2) fixture. I figured I could throw in a couple of 13 watt spiral cfl light to get about 25 watts of lighting. I want something low maintenance. Hopefully I won't have to buy too much more. I do have an additional Hagen Elite mini submersible (filter,pump) for extra flow. Now some suggestions would be good.

[Regric25]

I'm in the same boat as you man. I just set up my 10 gallon nano about 5 weeks ago. Im back to basics on this. No heater, 1 koralia 1, 2 HOB filters and a 2 bulb PC light fixture. So far I have a bunch of zoas/palys, tyree war coral, favia, condy anem, duncan polyp, snails, hermits. I had a small inexpensive fish but im pretty sure either the condy ate it or it croaked and the hermits ate it because I have not seen it in about a week. Good luck to you and welcome back to the hobby.

[alton]

Add about ten pounds of live rock and you will be set. I have been keeping imperator angels in a 100 gallon QT tub with a foam filter for over a month with no live rock till last week and no problems. Sometimes we tend to over do things?

[allan]

I thought about getting one of those little nanos and doing a bare bottom single coral no livestock display that I've seen somewhere here or on the 'net. The article I read had an elegance coral sitting there pretty as punch with no sand rock or fish. The only source of food was what the lights provided. He had it in there about six months if memory serves.

[justahobby]

You could probably buy a couple "big" colonies attached to live rock and not need to add much more to get a full, grown out appearance pretty quickly.

Also, you might want to add a blue led strip or some other type of lighting. The stock bulbs and CFLs will be very yellow. They make 11" T5HO fixtures now.

[Mr.Schertz]

Was actually wanting a dendro colony. No sand,just a black plexi glass bottom to put the live rock on. I was thinking of using spiral cfl bulbs in a 6500k spectrum.