If You Had A 10gal What Would You Do With It?

[Don Vito]

OK, my friend is giving me a 10gal tank(free) comes with some cheap little pump and some other stuff. Now would you..

A) Make it a Quarantine Tank.
B) Make it a Mini Reef-Dont know if its possible.
C) Throw it back at him and ask for a bigger tank.

[BlueLagoonSD]

hamster tank:D

[ricestudios]

nano it up

[obarrera]

A quarantine tank.:D

[brahm]

nano

[Drea]

make it a nano

[brahm]

heheh i think he is going to see that responce alot as the most the members of this board all met on www.nano-reef.com

[MarLooney]

if your display is in the livingroom or somewhere other than your bedroom.... nano in the bedroom! i just got a 96W power quad from ChillyWilly and it looks great over my friend's 10gal.

[Don Vito]

OK
I got....

4 Nano's
1 Q. Tank
1 Refugium
1 Throw it back
and my favorite.
1 Hamster Tank. :)

I like the refugium idea but I really like the nano idea.

[brahm]

Wait wait wait.. I got it..

MANTIS TANK!!!

[Don Vito]

Isn't that what this Hobby is all About???

Spending Money?

[SD619]

I would donate the tank to....ME! Otherwise, go for the nano setup.

[Limbo]

Thanks for the kind words Chap.....

One thing I have found about the nano is that you run out of room FAST (obviously). Not that big of a problem to maintain as long as you are on top of it constantly...since there is such little water volume to deal with.

Just make sure you put pretty hardy stuff in (just in case you have unexpected temp/salinity/flow changes.


Aw, hell,...who am I kidding.....it's my wife's tank....she would know more than I on how hard it is to maintain :) My babies are the 55 and 30.

You are right about one thing Chap,....I would trade all 3 for a 240 or 360 :)

Jim

[ricestudios]

make it into a refuge!!!

[brahm]

I find with my nano's depeding on what you have in them they can be rather chore free, my 15 gallon is just a softy tank and requires nothing more then a top offs, and waterchanges which I do whenever I'm doing them on my 55.

[Bickmade]

Originally posted by Chap
Get it drilled by David M ($10) and set it up as a refugium for your main tank. Set it on a stand a little higher than the tank, use a power head to fill it and the drilled over flow to return to your main tank. Pods and macro algae galore.

[MarLooney]

10gal fuges leave little room for error. if anything goes wrong you run a higher risk of flooding... unless you do it above the tank as one person suggested... but that's just ugly IMO.

[brahm]

Originally posted by MarLooney
10gal fuges leave little room for error. if anything goes wrong you run a higher risk of flooding... unless you do it above the tank as one person suggested... but that's just ugly IMO.

Yea I've got the CPR 10 Gallon fuge it's nice.. Did have 1 flood though.

[SDRotary]

I have been running a 10g nano for around 6 months, and the toughest thing is making sure you top off atleast every day usually twice a day. I have a Xenia farm in there. I do weekly water changes around 10-15%. As far as mantis tank I had my mantis in a 10g aga and it hit the glass so hard I had to buy it a 5g acrylic because I worried too much. It even chips the acrylic walls so I am happy it isnt in glass.

Long story short, use it for a nano. Just keep up on your maintence.

[SDMike]

Originally posted by brahm
Wait wait wait.. I got it..

MANTIS TANK!!!

That was going to be MY vote.

Mike's house: Home of Harriette the Heavy-Handed.

M

[SDMike]

Originally posted by limbo1001001
Thanks for the kind words Chap.....

One thing I have found about the nano is that you run out of room FAST (obviously). Not that big of a problem to maintain as long as you are on top of it constantly...since there is such little water volume to deal with.

Just make sure you put pretty hardy stuff in (just in case you have unexpected temp/salinity/flow changes.


Aw, hell,...who am I kidding.....it's my wife's tank....she would know more than I on how hard it is to maintain :) My babies are the 55 and 30.

You are right about one thing Chap,....I would trade all 3 for a 240 or 360 :)

Jim

I saw a thread over on RC about this guy's 865gal Starfire BOWfront tank... NOW you're talking water volume!

It makes me feel inadequate every time I go in the "large tanks" forum that I don't very often... Then I go to Jason's and that feeling of inadequacy gets reinforced!

M

[nalbar]

nano


IMO those who say nano's require a lot of maintanance did not do them right.

mine requires top off (which i could auto if i wanted) and water changes. the water changes are FAR easier on my nano than on my 80.



nalbar

[sdboogie]

I only have a 10. And if this is considered difficult or a lot of maintenance, than this hobby is easier than what I read. Granted, I have no fish, but all my corals grow like crazy. The occasional topoff and squirt of b-ionic and it's good to go.

When this becomes a chore, I'll get rid of everything and start golfing or playing guitar again.

[m_tyson]

i'd throw in some rock, macro algae, an airline, and about a dozen dwarf seahorses :D

[jetor]

Here is what I did with a 12 gallon Via Aqua..........it is a little more work and went through a algae phase that is now clearing up.........fun little tank for the office though

12 gallon Via Aqua
DIY 75 watt halide
2 16 watt "stock" PC's
TOM products surface skimmer for Aqua C Remora
4" fan for cooling
2 gallon auto top off



Jasen