Hi everyone, I have recently gotten into the lovely hobby of reefing! my 10 gallon nano has been up and cycled for about 4 months now and I am slowly adding corals and inverts, not super interested in any fish at the moment, I figured I'll get to it later ( i would love a watchman/shrimp combo or a clown for my anemone). I run a top fin 10 gallon filter, a protein skimmer, 50w heater and current marine led light. I will eventually move to a larger tank because isn't that the way it goes, more more more. So far in the tank I have:
2 peppermint shrimp
2 micro brittle stars (came with the LR and I only ever get a glimpse of them)
Pulsing xenia (started as a frag with 2 little heads and has flourished)
Flower pot (I just got from the LFS)
some zoanthids that came on the big live rock and a baseball sized colony that I just purchased (I found it at the LFS, had a tri-color BTA on it and I picked it up for a steal.)
small clam that came in on the LR
Tri-color BTA (moved behind my HOB filter the night I got him)
1 small red sea star, I think it is a red fromia starfish (probably not a good choice in hind sight)
1 Astrea snail
1 turbo snail
1 fighting conch (keeps my sand and bottom few inches of my tank clean, love watching him)
3 scarlet hermit crabs (also fun to watch)
a tiny, tiny blue mushroom coral with red spots, showed up out of the blue.
(I have seen a few other creatures that hitched hiked on the LR like bristle worms, pods and fan worms. I had a crab that died a little after the cycling of the tank.
Anyway my question is feeding, without any fish being fed regularly I'm afraid that there isn't enough food for everyone. Occasionally I will feed my shrimp (the swim up to my fingers and eat what I have pinched between them, it's awesome) but besides that the only ever time I have fed the tank was when I first got the colony of zoanthids with the bubble tip and I tried to feed them both some super finely chopped tilapia and some liquefied fish pellets (not sure if its a good idea, I'll probably get some reef roids or coral frenzy in the near future).
My BTA is looking better than it did when I first got it and I feel like its more open than it was at the LFS but it could just be the way the tank magnifies things. Part of the zoanthid colony isn't doing too well, it's starting to have that melting appearance but the other half is looking alright.
Just some more information, I try to do a water change once a week, at least 25% I originally did 50% water changes every week but in the interest of keeping the water perimeters more stable I have gone to the 25%.
I really love this little tank and i can see why everyone who gets into the hobby loves it, it really brightens up any room and I enjoy just sitting and watching my tank (I think my roommate thinks I am a weirdo but I always seem to find some new little creature in the LR or learn something about the behavior of the creatures that I already have in the tank).
Any help and advice would be appreciated, I'm always trying to find some way of improving the environment I have created for these little guys and want to see them flourish into wonderful colonies and a beautiful nano reef, thanks everyone.
PS I tried to post pictures but since I am new it wont let me.
2 peppermint shrimp
2 micro brittle stars (came with the LR and I only ever get a glimpse of them)
Pulsing xenia (started as a frag with 2 little heads and has flourished)
Flower pot (I just got from the LFS)
some zoanthids that came on the big live rock and a baseball sized colony that I just purchased (I found it at the LFS, had a tri-color BTA on it and I picked it up for a steal.)
small clam that came in on the LR
Tri-color BTA (moved behind my HOB filter the night I got him)
1 small red sea star, I think it is a red fromia starfish (probably not a good choice in hind sight)
1 Astrea snail
1 turbo snail
1 fighting conch (keeps my sand and bottom few inches of my tank clean, love watching him)
3 scarlet hermit crabs (also fun to watch)
a tiny, tiny blue mushroom coral with red spots, showed up out of the blue.
(I have seen a few other creatures that hitched hiked on the LR like bristle worms, pods and fan worms. I had a crab that died a little after the cycling of the tank.
Anyway my question is feeding, without any fish being fed regularly I'm afraid that there isn't enough food for everyone. Occasionally I will feed my shrimp (the swim up to my fingers and eat what I have pinched between them, it's awesome) but besides that the only ever time I have fed the tank was when I first got the colony of zoanthids with the bubble tip and I tried to feed them both some super finely chopped tilapia and some liquefied fish pellets (not sure if its a good idea, I'll probably get some reef roids or coral frenzy in the near future).
My BTA is looking better than it did when I first got it and I feel like its more open than it was at the LFS but it could just be the way the tank magnifies things. Part of the zoanthid colony isn't doing too well, it's starting to have that melting appearance but the other half is looking alright.
Just some more information, I try to do a water change once a week, at least 25% I originally did 50% water changes every week but in the interest of keeping the water perimeters more stable I have gone to the 25%.
I really love this little tank and i can see why everyone who gets into the hobby loves it, it really brightens up any room and I enjoy just sitting and watching my tank (I think my roommate thinks I am a weirdo but I always seem to find some new little creature in the LR or learn something about the behavior of the creatures that I already have in the tank).
Any help and advice would be appreciated, I'm always trying to find some way of improving the environment I have created for these little guys and want to see them flourish into wonderful colonies and a beautiful nano reef, thanks everyone.
PS I tried to post pictures but since I am new it wont let me.
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