My 10 gallon Journal

[ram man]

Hi,

I finaly got all the supplies for my tank! this is my ten gallon journal

ammonia- used to be 1.00ppm and is now .50ppm
nitrite-
nitrate-20ppm

 

[Limi310]

Cool!

Well..............where are the pictures?

 

[ram man]

here they are, let me know what you think of the rock work.

 

[tubbs24]

ooo, a nice little cave!

 

[Mushroomman]

Good idea documenting the progress with pictures. I wish I took more...

Structure is neat, Id add another piece to accent it though if you want.

 

[Limi310]

I think it looks great!!! I really like it. Now I am wishing I got a couple bigger chunks of rock for mine. I like the cave. Good job!!!!

 

[ram man]

im trying to save enough space for corals. if i get a clown i want it to maybe host in frogspawn. how bad is the sting on these corals? do they sell drip aclimation kits at petsmart or at a lfs?

 

[CAPSLOCK]

Looks good, looks like you have lots of levels to put corals on and a nice LR cave for the fish.

I was under the impression that you drip aclimated with a bucket and some airline tubing...

 

[fish outa wata]

nice looking rock. they're pretty big chunks!
i think that's right capslock.

 

[PuNanny]

Nice tank i like the LR set up =D

 

[Lorna]

great job. How close is the rock to the back tank wall? far enough away that fish can swim back through there and you get enough water flow through? Great cave. You should be able to buy a couple yards of 1/4" airline tube at lowes or even a pet store and then just tie a knot in it to slow the flow to a drip and voila......drip into a bucket and you are good to go. The only thing is that with a 10g tank and a 3 g bucket you may want to slow that drip quite a bit so you don't lower the level in your tank too much.....

 

[ram man]

i just wasnt sure how to get it to drip. thanks for letting me know about the string!

 

[lordroad]

I use a 1 gallon plastic water container with the top cut-off for my acclimating, putting the bag in the container. I empty out about half of the water in the bag, then regulate the drip so it's one drop per second, and leave it for 45 minutes to an hour.

I only add about half a gallon (usually less) when i acclimate.

 

[ram man]

thanks guys for the tips. today has been a realy good day. the tank is fully cycled! YAY!!! i added 5 hermit crabs today also. one thing i learned was with a big light, you get big evaporation... any way the tank is cycled. ill wait about a monthe to add corals and a cleaner shrimp. thanks for all the tips.

 

[UP UP AND GUPPY]

the rock work is awesome i need to do something like that for my 10 gallon

 

[Csilover]

Man... I have so been wanting to do saltwater, I've had my eye on this 30g at my lfs for a while..... Well, for now I just get to look at pictures of other people's tanks! It looks nice (though I know nothing about what it should look like)!

 

[ram man]

couldnt wait on the corals, i couldnt find a place to put the new zoanthid frag in the mantis tank cause the little guy kept moving it, i drip acclimated it to see how it went, closed up for a minute and is now fully open.

 

[Fishckabibble]

pictures! pictures! pictures! i want to see how your 10 gallon sw looks like with coral, i have wanted to do one for sooooo long but im on a limited buget as it is lol hubby says no more till we move and can afford it.

 

[ram man]

i would need a macro lense to show you the coral, it is only 9 polyps of green and purple. im going to add some star polyps and my only ricordia tommorow, ill post pics then.

 

[ram man]

update: a while ago i found out the tank was not cycled, the algaes in the tank were eating the ammonia and other stuff to make it seem like the tank was cycled.

It is now officialy cycled now, i went to aquatouch and bought the following,

2 astrae snails
1 emerald crab
2 nasarius snails(spelling)

the astrae have to be the slowest moving things in the tank they rae algae eating machines though!

here is a pic i took before i went to aquatouch yesterday