10 gallon nano-reefers, how much live rock and how deep is your sand?

[blk_g20]

i want to start a 10 gallon, just looking for some suggestions on LR and DSB. i was planning on 15lb of rock, but now sure how deep the sand should be. if i use 3-4", there's not too much room left.

[WorldNation]

20lbs of live sand should be enough, thats about 1.5 inches. but the mroe the better.

[blk_g20]

from what i've read, i gathered that the DSB in 3-4" range is best, but i'm interested to see what other people with 10 gallons have, since 3-4"DSB would take up lotsa space.

[Billdemart]

Im confused now. I thought I read 1 pound of live sand per gallon of tank.

 

Is it suppossed to be 2 or more?

 

Thanks,

 

Bill

[~_~]

It doesn't matter.

Just use whatever amount of sand you wan't.

 

One of the reasons I use 3+ inches of sand is because it brings the corals on the sandbed closer up to the light.

[NaNO ReeFiN]

My tank you see below has about 15lbs. of LR and a 20lb. bag of aragonite sand.

[blk_g20]

thats a very nice tank. what kind of powerheads are those? rios? which one? i was planning on using two Aquaclear 201 since big al has them for $10 each.

[nut.meg]

My nano is still pretty new - but I put in a 15lb bag of aragonite, so I guess that sits about 2-3" deep in the 10gal. I've got 12lbs of LR, and I'm probably getting more from a friend at work (I work at a Big Al's) who has some nice coralline encrusted stuff to spare).

 

It looks fine so far - but we'll see how it works out with that configuration.

 

Meg