10 gallon ideas

NoahLikesFish · Aug 6, 2021

cool ideas for my 10 gal. i was considering a ceph or a mantis. i dont have very many good ideas for it. i might read tonmo for info on cephs

Sharkbait19 · Aug 7, 2021

Definitely do a mantis over a cephalopod. Both are highly intriguing, but cephalopods require a lot more time and experience to keep alive.

jesspal · Aug 7, 2021

RFA garden

Sharkbait19 · Aug 7, 2021

I’ve always thought a pest tank would be cool in a small aquarium. Just letting the aiptasia grow (also food for your filefish), some gorilla crabs, and a bunch of stuff that are neat, but otherwise annoying in a normal reef.

NoahLikesFish · Aug 9, 2021

if i fed him aptasia he would eat my coral probably, i am gonna just take it down and save it for a quarntine tank, most likely i wont need it but im gonna get a brand new 10 gal or a 20 high and build a stand for it because i liked making a stand for my 20 long so i wanna make one for my other tank. i might consider a sepia, i have basically all the time in the world to take care of it so i shouldbe okay with one or a breeding pair

NoahLikesFish · Aug 9, 2021

im thinking very invert heavy with like a pixy hawk, a citron clown goby, the one fish lasse really likes a lot and a pygmy filefish

Sharkbait19 · Aug 9, 2021

NoahLikesFish said:
im thinking very invert heavy with like a pixy hawk, a citron clown goby, the one fish lasse really likes a lot and a pygmy filefish

I would recommend against a filefish in less than 30 usually. Less of a swimming room thing, more of a high probability of turning on inverts and corals thing. Same for the hawk, I’d look at the geometric pygmies for a 10-20.
I’d look into the rarer shrimpgobies for an oddball.
I’d keep it to no more than 3 fish too.
Or you could scrap the idea of an ecosystem and just get a wennerae mantis.

NoahLikesFish said:
if i fed him aptasia he would eat my coral probably, i am gonna just take it down and save it for a quarntine tank, most likely i wont need it but im gonna get a brand new 10 gal or a 20 high and build a stand for it because i liked making a stand for my 20 long so i wanna make one for my other tank. i might consider a sepia, i have basically all the time in the world to take care of it so i shouldbe okay with one or a breeding pair

Doesn’t ORA raise them on aptasia?

NoahLikesFish · Aug 9, 2021

Sharkbait19 said:
I would recommend against a filefish in less than 30 usually. Less of a swimming room thing, more of a high probability of turning on inverts and corals thing. Same for the hawk, I’d look at the geometric pygmies for a 10-20.
I’d look into the rarer shrimpgobies for an oddball.
I’d keep it to no more than 3 fish too.
Or you could scrap the idea of an ecosystem and just get a wennerae mantis.

Doesn’t ORA raise them on aptasia?

i didnt get mine from ora. also, pygmy filefish are like 1.5" and sedentary

NoahLikesFish · Aug 9, 2021

Sharkbait19 said:
I would recommend against a filefish in less than 30 usually. Less of a swimming room thing, more of a high probability of turning on inverts and corals thing. Same for the hawk, I’d look at the geometric pygmies for a 10-20.
I’d look into the rarer shrimpgobies for an oddball.
I’d keep it to no more than 3 fish too.
Or you could scrap the idea of an ecosystem and just get a wennerae mantis.

Doesn’t ORA raise them on aptasia?

could i still have ridiculously encrusted life on my rock with tons of diversity with things like starfish featherdusters coral and things.

NoahLikesFish · Aug 9, 2021

if i did a mantis id get a peacock and the craziest psychadelic corals i could find

Sharkbait19 · Aug 11, 2021

NoahLikesFish said:
if i did a mantis id get a peacock and the craziest psychadelic corals i could find

Peacock would need at least 30, very messy feeders.

NoahLikesFish said:
i didnt get mine from ora. also, pygmy filefish are like 1.5" and sedentary

I wouldn’t say sedentary, like puffers where they are slow but still active.

NoahLikesFish · Aug 11, 2021

Sharkbait19 said:
Peacock would need at least 30, very messy feeders.

I wouldn’t say sedentary, like puffers where they are slow but still active.

my aip eater hides under ledges or rests by the ato float valve or the filter inlet 90% of the time

Sharkbait19 · Aug 11, 2021

NoahLikesFish said:
my aip eater hides under ledges or rests by the ato float valve or the filter inlet 90% of the time

Every one I’ve seen was rather active. Kinda sounds like it is the object of aggression based on what I’ve seen with other fish. Of course this is coming with no personal aip filefish experience though.

NoahLikesFish · Aug 11, 2021

yeah, they are active when foraging. he proably is just chillin cause of how much pods and stuff he has to forage on. i think the pygmy would be ok. if i end up just saving my 10gl for qt which i might do to save money and just go all in at once and build a whole 75g without testing my life support idea. if i did 10g id prolly do gobiodon a pygmy file and a pipe and mabye a plectyranthias

Sharkbait19 · Aug 12, 2021

NoahLikesFish said:
yeah, they are active when foraging. he proably is just chillin cause of how much pods and stuff he has to forage on. i think the pygmy would be ok. if i end up just saving my 10gl for qt which i might do to save money and just go all in at once and build a whole 75g without testing my life support idea. if i did 10g id prolly do gobiodon a pygmy file and a pipe and mabye a plectyranthias

A pipefish wouldn’t be able to compete with them in so small a tank (basically only mandarins and seahorses work with them).