My Rushed Nano - 10 gal

[raisemyrent]

Hello,

I have been lurking in the dark here for a bit, so about time I made a journal. The story behind this nano is long, but goes as follows:
OK, I can't skip this, when we were going to univ, one my housemates was walking home from the bar and saw a fish tank at the back of a house, in the alley, by the dump. For some strange reason, he decided it was a great find and brought it home. Little more happened until fairly recently when he heard that I was into tanks and decided to randomly come and drop it off at my place. I figured I'd take it, as a possible future sump for my main project: my 33 gal living room reef.

Then the addiction kicked in, and I decided to establish a nano (oh, I had a 6 gal nano for a couple years when I was in high school, 7 years ago) while I waited for equipment deliveries, etc, for my main tank.


The rest of the story is typical, I got some rock, some sand, some equipment here there and everywhere, deals here, expensive there, and the tank is as the picture now shows. The cycle/break-in has recently ended, and now it is time to stock it.

Any suggestions???

I plan on keeping softies, mushrooms, and maybe the odd SPS near the top. I have a rio nano skimmer that also circulates the water well, a koralia nano, and a Current USA T5HO 2x24W 24" 10K plus 460nm light fixture... the big piece of LR on the left was from an established LFS (she uses it as LR for her display tanks with frags and sells it sporadically) and the coralline encrusted pieces were the few from her frag/display tank that I could snag without any life on them. The other two big pieces of LR were from another store that I bought shortly after delivery (uncured then, and I have figured they're too big and will end up in the other tank as soon as it is ready). The dead/white pieces are caribsea base rock in a bag (fossilised LR I believe).

Most of the sand is dead aragonite then seeded with some ocean direct.

First thing that comes to mind is CUC, but can I just start with a fish? or a frag? hahaha please feel free to chip in with your suggestions...