New 10G Micro Tank Build?

[Drew_E36]

I am new to saltwater and have close to nothing in knowledge about this hobby but I am getting alot of help from a good friend on this thread so if you would like follow me on my journey into the UNKNOWN (haha) . . . Welcome to the new reefer Zone.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Welcome to Reef2Reef, bro! Glad you're here, and excited to see what happens with that new nano!

 

[Drew_E36]

finally got around to putting water in it and adding dr. Tim’s one and only bacteria going to pick up the fishes later today

 

[Stang67]

finally got around to putting water in it and adding dr. Tim’s one and only bacteria going to pick up the fishes later today

PLEASE LET IT CYCLE FIRST and dont put fish in until it has.

 

[Drew_E36]

acclimating new clowns to tank and prepping to equalize the salinity

 

[ShepherdReefer]

Welcome and tank looking great.

 

[Drew_E36]

Fish seem happy and will be keeping an eye on them everyday and adding microbactor 7

 

[Drew_E36]

they seem to really like the pineapple a lot and I’m fine with that for now since my kids picked the pineapple so naturally they’re very happy about it also the ammonia levels seem to be ok for now still keeping an eye on them and continue to and the microbactor 7 and the clowns seem healthy too

 

[Bfragale]

Lookin good my friend! Can’t wait to see what you do with it!

 

[Drew_E36]

I have been waiting for this to ship out but nothing has happened yet, I feel so impatient because it’s all I need to finally have a proper light up on the tank

Also ordered some extra stuff to bring the price of shipping down but ended up getting expedited shipping so didn’t end up mattering.
And carbon fiber looks nice haha!

 

[Drew_E36]

Lookin good my friend! Can’t wait to see what you do with it!

Thank you I’ll keep updating even thought it’s a tiny tank haha

 

[Drew_E36]

Welcome and tank looking great.

Thank you hopefully it continues that way

 

[Drew_E36]

PLEASE LET IT CYCLE FIRST and dont put fish in until it has.

I had bought a bottle of some stuff that prepped the tank for fish from day one and I’m continuing the introduction of microbactor7 but thank you for the heads up

 

[Drew_E36]

Had a slight scare right before I changed my water but after the clowns were fine here new pictures with the light finally installed

 

[Drew_E36]

So update it’s been about 2 weeks and a lot has happened so far I’ve been able to get a really good looking blenny and a bubble corral and it looks amazing also started learning about how to use the light properly and I’ve also got some leaf like algae growing if anyone can ID it

 

[Drew_E36]

I think I’ve found my new addiction I need more self control I’ve bought more thingies and now I dont have anymore room lol

 

[Drew_E36]

So a lot has happened In the past couple weeks. my scooter blenny got sucked into the power head and disemboweled creating an ever lasting algae bloom that I had no idea of how to get rid of but my good friend suggested to check my phosphates and behold they were higher than I could have possibly imagined so he gave me something to take care of that and it helped a lot.
Then I got another scooter blenny and after the horrible mistake of not taking into account the suction of the power head I decided to put some sort of cover on it to prevent that from ever happening again and it has helped so much.
And then that crab I had in the last pictures died as I’m pretty sure he was not fully aquatic, so i had another algae bloom which was super annoying.
Then I got greedy and bought a rainbow bubbly tip anemone, gsp, got some extra shells for the hermit crabs
A Mexican turbo snail I believe (correct me if I’m wrong) and an emerald crab.
But the snail was my favorite as it ate all or most of the hair algae off my bubble coral and now it look better than before as it looked like it was going to die at any moment but thanks to the snail it looks way better but it’s still got some left idk what to do with that hair algae so annoying but I believe that’s it I’ll add pictures at the bottom
Also seems I’ve acquired a little brittle sea star I hope, if not too late it’s somewhere in the tank now