10 gallon nano reef stocking

[jwilkey2468]

I have plans of creating a 10 gallon nano tank and am curious what everyone thinks about my plans:

- Tank: 10 gallon Aqueon aquarium
- Aqueon aquarium lid
- tidal 35 hob filter
- current loop orbit marine light w/ light rack
- current loop 660GPH Felix wave pump
- 100W heater
- MagTool auto top off

Coral Stocking: 6 corals
- Ricordea Mushroom
- Toadstool Leather
- Zoanthid
- Finger Leather
- Duncan
- Blastomussa
- green star polyp: back wall
- pulsing Xenia

Fish Stocking: 2 fish, shrimp, crabs and snails
- 1x clown (ocellaris/percula)
- 1x goby or 6-line wrasse or blenny or blue/green chromis
- 1x fire shrimp
- X snails (not sure what specific snails I want)
- X blue legged hermit crabs
- 1x Pom Pom crab

If anyone has any opposing opinions/advice about stocking please feel free to comment. I have experience with reef keeping, I had a 40 breeder for a year and the maintenance was too much for me so I think a nano will be better for me.

 

[Jekyl]

10g would be too small for a clown or 6 line

 

[Andreas' Reef]

Instead of a sixline or a clown I would go with something more laid back, like a watchman goby or fire goby.

cheers

 

[BanZI29]

Agree with the above. too small for a clown.
As for the lighting, think about going with either the Current USA IC pro version or the R24. Much better spectrum out of those.
Everything else looks good to me.

 

[SnazzyUrchin792]

Too small for a clownfish, would personally do small non-watchman gobies like sharknoses, neons, or yellow clowns.

 

[jwilkey2468]

10g would be too small for a clown or 6 line

What fish/Clean up crew would you recommend?

 

[jwilkey2468]

Too small for a clownfish, would personally do small non-watchman gobies like sharknoses, neons, or yellow clowns.

I was also thinking about the clown gobies. Is there a difference between the blue and yellow? Also do you know if they have a good personality?

 

[jwilkey2468]

Agree with the above. too small for a clown.
As for the lighting, think about going with either the Current USA IC pro version or the R24. Much better spectrum out of those.
Everything else looks good to me.

I think I'm going to stick with the lighting I have now, I'm just growing softies for the most part running blues and whites only. Then putting the duncan and blastos in the mid of the tank