blue spruce coral compatibilty?

Question

What kind of fish can the blue spruce caulastrea live with? I have a 10 gal. salt water (obviously) tank.

Answer 1

Your biggest problem here isn't what fish can be kept with your coral (as long as they're reef safe), but which are suitable for something as small as a 10 gallon tank. Most marine fish get rather large, and are more territorial than freshwater species. About the only fish I'd keep in a 10 gallon (planning to keep them in that sized tank as adults) are the smaller shrimp gobies and clown gobies and firefish. The caulastrea isn't a particularly aggressive coral, and the fish I mentioned wouldn't disturb it.

In a 10 gallon, you should probably keep mostly inverts, but be careful with shrimp and crabs - even some of these that are considered "reef safe" will pick at corals.

See these links for possible fish to use - just be aware of the minimum tank sizes needed for each: http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/scateg.cfm?pCatId=2124

Some additional info on small marine set-ups:
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/nanoreefsysart.htm
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=16&cat=1990&articleid=3333