New to the hobby, 10g. Finally Coral!!!!
 

A little preamble to my build. Saw my brother in laws tank and instantly fell in love with it. Since im very busy with 2 hockey playing kids decided to start small with a 10g build and make sure I can handle the time requirements. Huge thanks to Paddyob, brother in law, who either supplied me with or brought me everything needed to start up. A few pics will follow.

Coralife 96 watt quad tube light.
Aquaclear 30 filter
Approx 15lbs Jakarta live rock
Bio-Sea Marine mix salt
Aragonite aragamax select sand
Seachem prime conditioner.


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Any comments or suggestions would be great. Again huge thanks to Patrick without who i never would have started.

:)
 

I am just glad after 3 years you finally got your feet wet! Ha ha!

Can't wait to see the progression!

Clean up crew.
 

Up till about 2am last night doing research so im thinking after my tank cycles a clean up crew is the next step. Looking at Bumble Bee and Margarita snails. Blue leg hermit crabs and either cleaner or peppermint shrimp. Any suggestions or comments greatly appreciated. Not sure what the local shop has but JL seems to be reasonable. Any locals from Regina with suggestions?

Do not add bumble bee snails. I have heard they eat certain corals.

Astrea and Mexican turbos.

Welcome to Canreef. Looks like a great start so far

Bumble bee's aren't reef safe.

Thanks for the tip. I'll stay away from the Bumble Bees.

those are big snails for a ten gallon. why not some ceriths and a couple nassarius snails and hope to get stomatella snails hitchiking on LR.

Snails
 

nassarious For sand definitely. Astrea Are fine as well. i actually meant mexican trochus (Spelling?). the mexicans are my favorite. great color on shell and face. fast movers too. would never be without them. turbo may get big but one or two small ones are ok.

Welcome aboard, hopefully you'll do better than padybob.:n00b: