here's the tank now. haven't seen any of the babies, so the prognosis is probably bad. but the female who had them is already berried again and another one looks like shes about to be so i must be doing something right
the new dead coral were ones that didnt make it at a local LFS, so i know where they came from. and at the cost of regular LR the price was right
a little blurry but you get the picture, heres the egg machine
A 10g would be difficult to keep stable but if you stay on top of it, you could be ok. Even my 28 gal can have big swings in params quickly if I'm not careful. It just takes more attention .